Tag: spending priorities
Conservatives notch 2 victories in their fight to deny Planned Parenthood...
Rachel Rebouché, Temple University
Conservatives have won two important battles in their decades-long campaign against Planned Parenthood, a network...
Federal R&D funding boosts productivity for the whole economy − making...
Andrew Fieldhouse, Texas A&M University
Large cuts to government-funded research and development can endanger American innovation – and the...
AmeriCorps is on the chopping block – despite research showing that...
Pamela Paxton, The University of Texas at Austin
Hundreds of thousands of U.S. nonprofits provide vital services, such as...
Getting Social Security on a more stable path is hard but...
Andrew Rettenmaier, Texas A&M University and Dennis W. Jansen, Texas A&M University
Social Security is in trouble.
Federal spending covers only 8% of public school budgets
David S. Knight, University of Washington
CC BY-SAState and local tax dollars cover the bulk of U.S. public school funding.
The federal government spends just under...
Giving private schools federal emergency funds slated for low-income students will...
Derek W. Black, University of South Carolina
Public schools have faced three distinct challenges since the coronavirus pandemic began – scrambling to make sure that...
How much of a difference does the number of kids in...
Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach, Northwestern University
Chicago’s teachers went on strike in October, suspending instruction for the city’s public school students for 11 days.
Educators in the...
Getting poorer while working harder: The ‘cliff effect’
Susan R. Crandall, University of Massachusetts Boston
Forty percent of all working-age Americans sometimes struggle to pay their monthly bills.
There is no place in...
EXPLORING NATURE
‘Space tornadoes’ could cause geomagnetic storms – but these phenomena, spun...
Mojtaba Akhavan-Tafti, University of Michigan and Ward B. (Chip) Manchester, University of Michigan
Weather forecasting is a powerful tool....
