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March 6, 2025
…Further, demographic stagnation often contributes to lower economic growth over time. Unless we wish to accept lower growth and declining standards of living, we need solutions to the demographic/economic growth crunch that…
February 27, 2025
…in prison or jail than graduate from college if they grow up apart from their own married parents. By contrast, young men raised by married parents are four times more…
February 27, 2025
…Putnam’s Bowling Alone. Per Appelbaum, when new communities filled with new arrivals emerge, they have a strong impetus to form Tocquevillian civic groups; more stagnant communities lose such groups over time….
February 25, 2025
…rate. More broadly, what we see is that children in single-mother families are four times more likely to be poor in Ohio than children in married families. For DOGE, and…
February 25, 2025
…be more family friendly. Given the importance of full-time work and regular schedules for parents, businesses should aim to transition more of their employees onto a regular, full-time schedule. Baby…
February 25, 2025
…stretching out timelines because they can’t find the people to build and tailor the technology. As in other cases of extreme shortage, technical leaders are relying on the “spot” market…
February 24, 2025
It’s all about the skills, not the credentials. You know the labor market times are changing when Harvard MBAs start showing up in the unemployment stories. According to a recent Wall…
February 20, 2025
…Oren Cass claim that workers have endured “decades of stagnant wages.” Progressives typically agree, as when New York Times journalist David Leonhardt asserted in his recent book that, “For almost half a century now, incomes and…
February 18, 2025
…their conservative peers. Specifically, we found that 37% of conservative women reported being “completely satisfied” with life, whereas only 12% of liberal women did. Young conservative women are three times as likely…
February 14, 2025
…2015 poverty rate of 13.5% for the full sample. These thresholds are then adjusted over time using the Bias-Corrected CPI-U-RS, which subtracts 0.8 percentage points from the growth in the…