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March 18, 2025

Rebuilding Higher Education Finance: Reform Through Reconciliation

…income-based repayment plans, and the Department of Education. Each speaker gave their own perspective as a different actor in this space, and the audience’s questions were concerned with the timeline…

March 17, 2025

Progressives Are Starting to Come Around on the Importance of Marriage and Fatherhood

…clearly dissatisfied with the male status quo has forced some otherwise progressive thinkers to admit something’s changing. Recently on “Real Time with Bill Maher,” former Congressman Tim Ryan, a Democrat…

March 17, 2025

Trump Should Put an End to Rent Control

We are in a time when what would have seemed to be unimaginable domestic policy changes — from the abolition of the Department of Education to cutoffs of federal support for universities — are on the table.  The Department…

March 13, 2025

Two Charts Show Why a Trade War Over Fentanyl Doesn’t Make Sense

…both of our neighbors over fentanyl is that the United States seizes over 500 times more fentanyl on the border with Mexico than it does on the border with Canada…

March 13, 2025

The Return To Student Loan Repayment, In Four Charts

In March 2020, the federal government enacted a “temporary” pause on student loan repayment, which the Trump and Biden administrations extended a grand total of eight times. But as of…

March 12, 2025

Why Alabama Needs The Success Sequence

…have markedly higher odds of realizing the American Dream: get at least a high school education  work full time  marry before having children A stunning 97% of young adults who…

March 12, 2025

Stop and Go

…clear automated trucking, and automated driving more broadly, was not advancing as quickly as its proponents had hoped, a fact highlighted by high-profile, fatal accidents involving self-driving cars. Time, and technology, however, have…

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…

March 4, 2025

A Model for Effective and Reasonable Work Requirements

…psychology and medicine, the concept of “secondary gain” defines motivations for developing or maintaining illnesses. These might include financial benefits (such as disability payments), time off from work, and increased…

March 3, 2025

It’s Time for Time Limits on Public Housing

time limit alone for non-elderly subsidized housing tenants. As a result, tenants would immediately have an incentive to plan for a non-subsidized future. Indeed, a time limit virtually implies a…