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May 8, 2024

USDA Report Highlights Subjectivity of Food Insecurity Measure

…rate, income changes over time, and much more. As part of this survey, once per year the Census Bureau also asks households a series of 18 questions about household members’…

May 6, 2024

How Much Are You Willing to Spend on Student Loan Forgiveness?

…Biden presidencies (or, more specifically, all student loan revenue from the US Treasury that has been forgone or forgiven during this time). With this month’s addition of $6.1 billion, the…

May 6, 2024

How States and Communities Can Strengthen Marriages 

…live in poverty, experience abuse, spend time in jail, or drop out of high school, and they have better health, greater emotional well-being, and increased social mobility.[2] A substantial number…

May 6, 2024

Generation Z Has Problems Compared to Past Generations, but Money Isn’t One

…expand beyond Gaza into a story of a broader struggle and trauma this generation has endured. This contention, that Generation Z has grown up in a uniquely difficult time, is widespread. Walking…

May 4, 2024

Make Parents Pay for Kids Who Miss School To Curb Chronic School Absenteeism

time to remember that a child’s school attendance is first and foremost  a parent’s responsibility — and a stick as well as a carrot can be deployed. Under the state’s…

May 2, 2024

A New Lost Generation: Disengaged, Aimless, and Adrift

More than a quarter of America’s school-aged children were absent from school 10 percent or more of the time last year. There’s no shortage of explanations on offer for this…

May 2, 2024

Q&A: A Conservative Vision for Education

…virtues of the Constitution. The amount of actual agreement is obscured by a conflict-fueled online culture, polarizing politics, and the fact that Americans don’t spend enough time talking to those who think…

May 1, 2024

The closing of the American heart

…from intact families are about four times more likely to graduate from college than they are to spend any time incarcerated. Clearly, marriage and stable families seem to matter for…

April 30, 2024

I’m a Conservative But Defunding NPR Is a Mistake. What Should Happen Instead Might Be Surprising

…as has Tennessee Republican Sen. Marsha Blackburn.  Don’t expect these bills to go far, however.  As Jesse Walker has observed in Reason Magazine, such efforts have been tried—and failed—multiple times…

April 29, 2024

New “Scorecard” Report Promotes Better Use of Data to Prevent Unemployment Fraud

…outdated and overwhelmed administrative systems proved incapable of keeping up with a massive surge in demand for claims, including from criminals bent on defrauding the system. Everyone from small-time crooks…