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March 6, 2025

America’s New Frontier of Opportunity and Inclusion

…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

The GOP Is Still the Pro-Marriage Party

…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

How Progressive Policy Distorted the Housing Market

…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

We Replaced Families with Uncle Sam. DOGE Must Make the Right Choices When Cutting

…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

Ohio Ranks Only 29th In The Family Structure Index

…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

Go Fast, Break HR

…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

A Glut of MBAs?

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

The American Dream Is Not a Coin Flip, and Wages Have Not Stagnated

…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

Why So Blue: Liberal Women Are Less Happy, More Lonely. But Why?

…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

Poverty During the Pandemic and the Role of Government Transfers

…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…