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February 14, 2024
Why You Should Get Married
…and Don’t Have Kids Are Getting Richer.” Or The Atlantic in 2019, offering “The Case Against Marriage.” Or, in 2021, The New York Times with “Divorce Can Be an Act of Radical Self-Love.” In the Times piece,…
February 13, 2024
The Awfulness of Elite Hypocrisy on Marriage
…almost all unmarried—“Do you personally plan to finish your education, work full-time, marry, and then have children?,” 97 percent said yes. And when I asked, “If you came home at…
February 9, 2024
Resolving to Learn Lessons from Record Pandemic Fraud
…unemployment benefit programs created by Congress—combined to produce staggering demand for benefits. Claims quickly soared to 33 million by June 2020—more than two and a half times the prior record set during…
February 9, 2024
The Upside of the College Enrollment Downswing
…same is true for just 1 percent of psychology programs. And this only accounts for students who actually graduate. Students who attend university for a period of time, often going…
February 8, 2024
CTC Expansion Rooted in Desire to Roll Back Work-based Welfare
…policy goal. At the time of this writing, further action on the legislation is pending in the Senate, and it remains unclear whether the legislation will reach President Biden’s desk…
February 8, 2024
Another Flawed Analysis Shows that Single Mothers are Highly Sensitive to Changes in Work Incentives
…incentives—from another angle. This time, he looks at episodes over the past 50 years where the work incentives faced by single mothers changed due to altered tax policy (generally due…
February 7, 2024
Child Tax Credit Bill Would Increase Marriage Penalties for Working Single Mothers
…parents to move from part-time work to full-time work. For example, we calculated that the effective tax on moving into full-time work would rise by 14 percentage points for a…
February 7, 2024
Elite Colleges Need to Offer Less Affirmation. And Insist on More Work.
…studying for the second mid-term. Professor: How much time did you actually devote to this class? Don’t include the time you attended the class or the time you spent reading the…
February 7, 2024
The Past and Future of Education Reform
…as the role model for the right when it comes to education reform. Since the Reagan era, the right’s education reformers have repeatedly fallen victim to the siren songs of…
February 7, 2024
To Save Local Journalism, Update The Public Broadcasting Act
During his time as the U.S. ambassador to France, Thomas Jefferson wrote that if he faced a choice between “a government without newspapers or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a…