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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…
October 10, 2023
New White House Proposal to Further Alienate Religious Foster Parents
…that double mastectomies or calling a child by a different name are beneficial either, but in the world of foster care, we have seen time and time again that scoring…
October 10, 2023
Judge Erik Pitchal’s Warped Mindset Led to Baby Ella Vitalis’ Death
…drug addiction or mental illness. Pitchal wasn’t even willing to make such a determination for young children, though. “I still remember the first time I refused to take a position…
October 6, 2023
After a Banner Year for School Choice, the Challenge Is to Ensure New Programs Work
…are at a unique point in education reform history. At a time when parents are front and center, we are not deeply concerned about implementing parent-friendly policies. At a time…
October 5, 2023
Do 60 Percent Of American Workers Have Insecure Jobs?
…criterion for job security is that the job provide “Paid time off (PTO) or vacation” or “Paid sick time.” It finds that 61 percent are in jobs with these benefits….
October 5, 2023
Changing the Official Poverty Measure Would Help Rich States and Hurt Poor States
…2022. The Census Bureau should fix these measurement problems for the purposes of accurately tracking poverty over time. But there is a much more policy relevant issue that has gone…