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June 16, 2025
Better Boys: The Difference Good Dads Make
…of fathers and future fathers by making schools more boy-friendly: adding male teachers in schools, expanding recess time, and recalibrating school curricula to be more boy-friendly. Secondly, by launching PSA campaigns spotlighting the valuable…
June 16, 2025
Accountable for Outcomes: We Need Evidence-Based Funding Models
…wasting learners’ time and taxpayer dollars on credentials that don’t pay off. This risk is exacerbated by today’s chaotic credentialing marketplace where over 1.1 million different credentials are now on…
June 16, 2025
The ‘Father Divide’ and What it Means for Our Kids
…house (usually meaning they are married) experience dramatically better outcomes than any other arrangement. Dads who live at home spend 10 times as much time with their kids as dads who live…
June 12, 2025
The Senate’s Higher Education Reforms Are Strong (But Could Be Stronger)
…go down if they make payments on time. This fixes one of the student loan program’s most glaring problems: rising balances. Both proposals allow borrowers who currently have loans outstanding…
June 10, 2025
The Surprising Epilogue to an Infamous Conn Job
…“focused reviews of judges who were outliers” like Daugherty. The study authors call the changes “possibly the most important (and least heralded) SSDI reforms of our time.” They find the reforms “led…
June 5, 2025
Measuring the Value of Nondegree Credentials
…all,” nondegree credentials have emerged as attractive alternatives, requiring far less time and money to help launch new careers and enabling workers to switch fields or earn promotions. However, there…
June 4, 2025
Congress Is Subsidizing the Wrong Neighborhoods
…rate. It was a worthy attempt at bolstering development in areas needing greater investment to stimulate the local economy. As The Times reported in 2018, Senator Tim Scott, a South Carolina Republican…
May 29, 2025
How Non-disabled Medicaid Recipients Without Children Spend Their Time
…lot of time playing video games or watching television as some political leaders allege? Or would increased time complying with the community engagement requirement take time away from looking for…
May 28, 2025
An Evaluation of Approaches to Cut and Reform SNAP
…no income are not working and therefore, they’re going to get less benefits as a result of the work requirements. At the same time, you’re substantially strengthening work incentives because…
May 27, 2025
The Surprising Role of Large Developers in Solving the Housing Crunch
…up 44% from $292,000 a decade ago. Despite elevated prices and interest rates, first-time buyers are purchasing more new homes than at any time in the past decade. This transformation…