A not small percentage of homeless adults first experienced homelessness as children. The figure is 20 percent for homeless adults in Los Angeles, 18 percent for Seattle and Santa Cruz, and 15 percent in San Francisco, according to the Department…
The original public meaning of the text of the Constitution is front and center these days, with Supreme Court majority and dissenting opinions alike invoking and debating that litmus test. On Tuesday, Oct. 11, the justices will have the opportunity…
At a time when the American economy could use more people, restrictions on immigration continue to trap unused talent in low-productivity countries. To unleash it, the United States could simply let these immigrants in and let them work. They’d become…
The Wall Street Journal published an article Friday titled “It Now Costs $300,000 to Raise a Child.” The calculation came from a study at the Brookings Institution, which in turn relied on data gathered by the Department of Agriculture. Three…
For a few years, I have sounded the alarm that a growing wave of conservatives is working to make Republicans indistinguishable from Democrats on social spending. Some say that to win elections, Republicans need to pay more attention to families…
It all seemed to make sense. Americans were hard workers, but jobs were scarce. So the 1930s Great Depression’s severe unemployment levels seemed the time for the national government to create a New Deal of welfare programs to assist those…
