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May 7, 2025
Did ‘China Shock’ Throw Millions of Americans Out of Work?
…in Selected Countries, 1970-2022 By the time China became a member of the WTO, manufacturing employment had fallen 41 percent in the US since 1977 (the first year available for…
April 30, 2025
Is The Collapse of Blue-Collar Marriage a Foregone Conclusion?
It’s been just over 40 years since Springsteen’s bestselling Born in the USA came out in 1984 — an album with “a rowdy indomitable spirit,” as Debby Miller wrote in Rolling Stone at the time. The…
April 30, 2025
The Student Loan Bubble Is about to Pop
…half of borrowers are not paying their loans on time. Data provided to me by Nelnet, the largest student-loan servicer, offers a grim look at repayment patterns. Read the full…
April 25, 2025
What’s holding women back from starting a family?
…still find it so convincing? Why are young women reluctant to marry? New York Times opinion columnist Michelle Goldberg argued at the evening panel that women aren’t eschewing marriage because…
April 25, 2025
Trump Administration Announces Plan to Get Borrowers Paying Student Loans Again
…were not due, interest rates were zero, and loans in default were not collected. The government extended the pause several times before it finally lapsed, in effect, in October 2024….
April 24, 2025
It’s About Time: Bring Back Those Student Loan Collections
This week, the Department of Education announced that on May 5 it will begin collecting on defaulted student loans. This will be the first time since March 2020 that borrowers who have…
April 15, 2025
Utah Hands Parents the Keys to the App Store
…discovered something chilling. Despite their best efforts to set up parental controls and screen time limits, their son had been relentlessly fed pro-suicide content by TikTok. The “safety features” they…
April 4, 2025
How One State Improved Its NAEP Scores
…teacher across the state. From core instruction to dedicating time in student schedules for tutoring, we have focused on instructional coherence so students experience explicit and systematic phonics-based instruction that…
April 3, 2025
The dangerous myth that poverty is the cause of child abuse
Why does child abuse happen? A new public service announcement says most people think it’s a “bad parent problem,” but the ad suggests “the root causes may be different than you think.”…
April 3, 2025
Trump’s Tariffs Are a Historic Tax Hike
…Times column: Vice President JD Vance argues that Trump “believes in economic self-sufficiency.” Well. To see the benefits of economic self-sufficiency, look to North Korea. Still, Vance is right. Trump is…