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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…

March 3, 2025

Up in the Air

…better educated workers will have an easier time finding new work than than the blue-collar workers hit by earlier rounds of automation. We will be testing that proposition in real-time…

February 28, 2025

Less Than Half of Medicaid Recipients Work Enough to Comply With a Work Requirement

…At the same time, individuals who do not comply with the work requirement may lose health insurance coverage. Underlying the policy debate is the extent to which Medicaid recipients already…

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

Powering AI: The Energy Workforce Crisis No One Is Talking About

…may represent a quantum leap in human capacity, but without the skilled workers to make it run, including energy workers, it will have a hard time delivering on its promise….

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….