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October 18, 2023
Vocation: A Cure for Burnout
…to personal meaning–because applying our time and energy toward a task we love is perhaps the best insurance against burnout. Philosophers have long recognized the role of meaningful work in…
October 17, 2023
What Poor Children Need
…know that having just one parent deprives a child of the parental money, time, and energy needed to help them succeed, and that boys are more hurt than girls by…
October 16, 2023
Serve Students, Not Institutions
…the Ph.D. in Physical Therapy Program held at UMES,” according to the group’s statement. This isn’t the first time the group has tried to stop other schools from competing with…
October 13, 2023
Liberals Reap Consequences Of Their Homeless Policies
…Coupled with sensationalized reports of poor conditions in state hospitals, it was an argument that led, over time, to the loss of hundreds of thousands of hospital beds. The advent…
October 12, 2023
The GOP Should Be the Party of Parents
…would enable many more families to afford the one-time costs associated with adoption. States should make similar benefits available and simplify the legal process involved. Social conservatives are also well…
October 12, 2023
Now the Administration Is Legislating on Welfare, Too
…time Congress ended a major New Deal program, in this case replacing it with a new one with decidedly different features. In place of the open-ended entitlement and many federal…
October 12, 2023
Blue States Are Getting More Federal Money Than They Should
…for instance, have been fixed in amount by statute since 1996. That means that states which are losing population receive more funds per capita for public assistance over time. The…
October 12, 2023
I Spoke to Arne Duncan About School Reform. Here Are 5 Takeaways
Last week, at the American Enterprise Institute, former Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and I sat down to talk about the future of school reform with The New York Times’…
October 12, 2023
Blue-State Benefits: How Federal Grants Fail to Consider Population Shift
…per capita assistance, notably cash public assistance. The annual “avoided reductions” are not large, to date, but will over time mount up, absent a stronger tie between assistance and population….
October 10, 2023
The Best Place for Kids Isn’t Always Their Home
…They all spent time with Watts’ grandmother and then went back again to their mother, who began using drugs again, dropped her kids off with a neighbor, and then never…