K-12 Education School closures caused ‘historic’ learning losses and widened the achievement gap The National Assessment of Educational Progress, also known as the 'Nation's Report Card,' quantifies the harm caused by COVID-19 school closures.
K-12 Education Helping kids recover from learning losses from COVID school closures The RECOVER Act would send unspent COVID relief money to low- and middle-income parents for child opportunity scholarships.
Housing Two ideas for improving the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit program The LIHTC is complicated and costly. Relief should provide benefits to families in need.
Foster Care State lawmakers must help youth aging out of foster care Protecting their Social Security benefits and providing temporary cash assistance should be part of the solution.
Policing Trump’s misguided approach to real crime problems The politics of punishment will not make Americans safer.
Financial Regulation How sensible are accredited investor requirements? Liberalizing SEC investment rules would greatly benefit middle-income Americans.
Student Loans Loan forgiveness is a bad way to support public servants A better way is to remove unnecessary degree requirements from public service jobs.
K-12 Education Arizona’s landmark ESA law will dramatically expand educational opportunity Giving parents direct control of their children's share of K-12 public school funding will ensure that every student has a high-quality education.
Policing New federal police database looks to keep ‘bad apples’ off the street If implemented and maintained well, the National Law Enforcement Accountability Database could improve the composition of police departments.
Housing Biden’s housing plan will increase demand more than supply Zoning increases rental prices and subsidizing those pricey units won’t help people with less money.
Higher Education Accreditors rarely enforce student outcomes standards at colleges Just three percent of accreditor actions have anything to do with student outcomes or academic quality.
Foster Care Virginia should stop taking foster children’s Social Security benefits Foster children already face too many challenges in life. It’s wrong for the government to go behind their backs to take benefits owed to them under federal law to pay for their care.
Economics How the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act mitigated inflation If we hadn't reformed the tax treatment depreciation and interest, inflation would be even higher today.
Health Care Fixing Obamacare’s ‘family glitch’ is best left to Congress Biden's effort to fix a design flaw in the Affordable Care Act is itself flawed.
Immigration How do we bring more of the world’s geniuses to America? Bringing the world’s best and brightest to the U.S. will make life better for Americans.
Energy The unintended consequences of tax credits for renewable energy Subsidies for solar and wind farms have left consumers increasingly vulnerable to price shocks.
Policing Minneapolis P.D. must eliminate bad apples An investigation of the MPD reveals an unaccountable culture rife with abusive practices.
Prescription Drugs Aduhelm decision exposes Medicaid to billion-dollar costs To make Medicare and Medicaid more sustainable, both programs should have the liberty to exclude coverage of low-value drugs.
K-12 Education $148 billion in K-12 COVID relief funds remains unspent Parents deserve to know why state education agencies and public school districts have been slow to spend emergency K-12 education funds.
K-12 Education Politicizing CDC school reopening guidance harmed American children Overcautious guidance that prolonged public school closures was a costly mistake.
Student Loans “Fresh start” for defaulted student borrowers should come with broader reforms The Biden administration should push for policies to prevent new defaults going forward.
Policing The conspicuous lack of reliable crime and police data As homicides rose in 2021, many police departments failed to submit data needed to identify crime trends.
K-12 Education Give children funds for tutoring to recover learning loss States and public schools have billions of unused dollars to help students get back on track.
Higher Education Maryland leads the fight against degree inflation in state government Governor Larry Hogan will strip unnecessary degree requirements from thousands of jobs in the state government.
Foster Care New York City will stop seizing foster children’s Social Security benefits Congress should amend the Social Security Act to stop child welfare agencies from taking foster kids’ money.
