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July 29, 2024
The Rise of ‘Marriage Deserts’ and What We Can Do About Them
…prime-working-age adults who are married is almost three times higher for those who are high income versus those who are low income. Marriage deserts are much more common in poor…
July 14, 2024
Fostering Normalcy for Foster Kids
…is not just that kids would have a hard time getting jobs, or that they would have to explain their personal situation to their bosses. It is also that kids…
June 26, 2024
Reducing Racial Disparities in Foster Care Might Endanger Black Children
…of “reasonable efforts” to keep the children with their families. And finally, caseworkers will have to take into account “social and cultural values at all times” in making such decisions….
June 26, 2024
American Workers Are Doing Great. They Could Be Doing Even Better.
…Benjamin Glasner. The other is by Paul Krugman of the New York Times. To the Economic Innovation Group’s attempt to articulate a “new consensus” about the American worker, I’d respond in three…
June 23, 2024
Is Systemic Racism Responsible for the Increase in Child Mortality Rates?
…least half a century. Thanks to advances in modern medicine and car safety, these had been declining for some time, but now the rates of suicide, homicide, drug overdoses and…
June 18, 2024
A Unified Theory of Education
When it comes to education, these have been the best of times and the worst of times. In 2021, Arizona adopted the nation’s first universal education-savings-account (ESA) program. In 2022,…
June 18, 2024
Economic Opportunity and Social Mobility
…of divorce has continued to increase. Moving outside the family, the trends are nearly as concerning. Americans spend less time with their neighbors than in the past and less time…
June 15, 2024
Reimagining Early Education
…agenda of their own, it has mostly started (and ended) with two time-tested responses: deregulation and tax cuts. Now, cutting red tape and taxes are reasonable places to start. Government…
June 13, 2024
Why Married Fathers Matter
…requisite “time, engagement, involvement, closeness, and so on.” Good fathering can take place in or outside of an intact, married home. “There is no residency requirement for good fatherhood,” Reeves contends….
June 13, 2024
A Deal to Trump Student Loans
…For a long time, the Republican stance on student loans was to “increase them just like the Democrats want, except a little bit less than the Democrats want.” We can’t…