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August 28, 2023

Here’s a Kind of Job-Training Program That Works

…have the hardest time finding and advancing in work. Finally, there’s a role for the federal government in expanding programs and seeding new ones. An interesting model can be found…

August 28, 2023

Where Does School Time Go?

…Three decades ago, the National Education Commission on Time and Learning observed, “Learning in America is a prisoner of time. For the past 150 years, American public schools have held time…

August 24, 2023

Want To End Apartment Warehousing? Ease Up On Rent-Control Laws

…on owners of the nearly 1 million rent-regulated apartments in dramatically new ways. Most important, for the first time, it limited rent increases that could be justified by “major capital…

August 24, 2023

Baby Boom Or Bust

…Stephanie, three Latter-day Saint home-schooling moms. The women have in the past pursued careers or owned businesses, and now they describe their full-time occupation as helping their children become well-rounded,…

August 24, 2023

The Hill that Public Education Dies on: Transgender Policies’ Utter Contempt for Parents

time. In the case of public education, it’s a two-way street. A December 2021 poll conducted for EdChoice showed that only about a third of teachers (36 percent) say they trust parents,…

August 23, 2023

Labor Department Report Finds Pandemic Unemployment Program Had a Staggering 36 Percent Improper Payment Rate

…only partial, since they reflect improper payments at one point in time, and not throughout the program’s operation. The report also fails to spell out the value of the resulting…

August 23, 2023

Solve Two Crises At Once: Put Migrants In NYCHA

…the Lower East Side has a better way. The New York Times reports that Camille Napoleon “has hosted as many as 12 migrants at a time in her two-bedroom apartment, on couches…

August 22, 2023

Is Paid Leave a Pro-Growth Policy?

…homes alike have become the norm. Paid time off also grants families the opportunity to come together and bond during a formative chapter of the new child’s life absent new…

August 21, 2023

Four Shocking Truths about the American Economy! (Well, Shocking to Some.)

…to be contrarian just for the sake of being contrarian, I take a starkly different view on all of those issues. Time for some myth busting, Faster, Please! style! “The link between…

August 17, 2023

The ‘Utah Family Miracle’ and Why It Matters

…childbearing is softening at this moment. But at the same time, the state continues to lead the nation in affording children the gift of married parents and maintains its position…