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December 27, 2024
DOGE Can Drive Reforms in America’s Broken Safety Net Programs
…DOGE can help the new Administration order agencies to rewrite regulations, foster consistency, and reduce duplication. Currently, program regulations have competing eligibility standards and even inconsistent definitions of child, family,…
December 20, 2024
Fixing Inflation, Right-Sizing the Federal Government
…the increase in the cost of living, each year, it becomes a more generous standard, qualifying more families for benefits than would be the case if the CPI were not…
December 17, 2024
Industrial Policy and Deficits: Dark Clouds for Democratic Capitalism
…overrides markets, it slows economic growth and threatens long-term prosperity. By slowing productivity growth, wage growth, and the rate at which living standards rise, it also undermines support for liberal…
December 12, 2024
Which Men Cheat Least? Republican Husbands, Especially ‘Religious Wife Guys’
…family. Standing in opposition to the Barstool Conservative is what we will call the ‘Religious Wife Guy.’ Religious Wife Guys are committed to classic marital values, including sexual fidelity. As…
December 11, 2024
US Students Best Other Nations—in Achievement Gap Growth
…are good reasons to treat international comparisons with some degree of caution. On a more ignominious note, when it comes to achievement gap growth between 2011 and 2023, the US stands apart from…
December 9, 2024
TIMSS Shows the Bottom Is Falling Out for US Test Scores
…the academic performance of US and international students. The results are grim. Three things stand out. First (and perhaps not surprisingly), the pandemic harmed student achievement. Between 2019 and 2023,…
December 5, 2024
SNAP and the “Make America Healthy Again” Agenda
…programs, and 95 percent of that funding is directed toward SNAP. One of the top priorities should be establishing nutrition standards for SNAP by eliminating funding for sugary beverages and ultra-processed foods. They should…
December 5, 2024
Inflation Reduction Act Offers a General Lesson against Industrial Policy
…to additional investment, faster productivity and wage growth, and higher living standards for American households. This would cost around $400 billion over a decade. Congress should make up that lost…
December 3, 2024
How States Can Shake Up the Stagnant Higher Education Market
…education, low barriers should not mean low standards for student outcomes at colleges with a performance record to evaluate. Decouple accreditation from state authorization. Most states require new colleges to become…
December 2, 2024
The Pursuit of Happiness Starts with Families: A Conversation Between Brad Wilcox and Gov. Spencer Cox
…our kids. That’s a line for me. So we passed a couple bills in 2023. We tweaked them this last session to help them stand up to some of the…