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October 9, 2024
How to Make Millionaire Teachers
…customize their career paths. It’s time for that to change. The answer is to expand opportunities for students, including those in traditional public schools, while allowing the very best and…
October 9, 2024
Learning the Right Lessons from the “China Shock”
…and Hanson-style instruments and ending their time period in 2007. They find job losses from Chinese import competition totaling 671,000 alongside export-driven job gains of 1.2 million. I argue that…
October 9, 2024
Two Cheers for California’s Ban on Legacy Admissions
…had already banned legacy admissions since 1998.) There’s a lot to like about what California just did. Research by Harvard University’s Raj Chetty has found that a legacy applicant is four times…
October 9, 2024
Kamala Harris’s Main Priority Is Expanding Welfare, Not Strengthening the Middle Class
…work or earn enough to owe federal income taxes in the first place. The biggest individual winners? Parents who don’t work at all, who for the first time received full…
October 8, 2024
Harris Housing Subsidies: A Recipe for Repeating Past Mistakes
…housing units over four years and $100 billion in down payment assistance to first-time homebuyers. Unfortunately, history tells us her plan would be worse than doing nothing. The combination of…
October 2, 2024
AOC’s “Social Housing” Dead End
New York representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, an avatar of the progressive Left, recently shared her vision of how America’s housing shortage should be addressed in a New York Times op-ed cowritten with Senator Tina…
September 27, 2024
Justice at Any Cost?
…limitations on such claims, putting insurance companies on the hook for decades-old incidents. In fact, they may not have even been responsible for insuring the parties at the time but…
September 23, 2024
The Kamala Harris Plan for More Housing Shortages
A signature feature of Kamala Harris’s housing plan is providing first-time home buyers with $25,000 in down-payment support, at a total cost of $100 billion over four years. Absent a severe…
September 21, 2024
Why Is Race Still a Factor in Adoption?
…As Tucker notes, “I do not view my work as passing judgment or merely having an opinion. Instead, I view it as preserving Blackness.” Maybe it’s time Tucker found a…
September 20, 2024
How Public Housing Fueled Boston’s Busing Riots
…to South Boston High School, set on the “heights” of that largely white neighborhood. At the time, and in retrospect, the violence was blamed on the racism of Boston’s “ethnic…