Congress Can Reduce the Deficit by $7.7 Trillion in 10 Years
The Congressional Budget Office projects that future deficits will explode. But there's a way out.
The Congressional Budget Office projects that future deficits will explode. But there's a way out.
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Some conservatives toss “parents’ rights” out the window in a holiday culture war against kids at live shows.
A staggeringly high number of families are subject to child abuse and neglect investigations in Maricopa County, Arizona.
An appeals court rejected a qualified immunity defense.
With the FORMULA Act soon to expire, the U.S. baby formula market is about to return to the conditions that left it so vulnerable to a shortage in the first place.
State actors are increasingly willing to seize children even with little evidence of child abuse.
Bradley Bass is facing 12 years in prison, despite the fact that he was doing his job as a school administrator.
It's especially outrageous when considering the billions of dollars in fraud that took place thanks to COVID-19 relief programs.
You can’t turn lives and economies off and on without inflicting lingering harm.
There is little utility to charging 10-year-olds as adults, yet Wisconsin still mandates the practice in certain cases.
The policy has some bipartisan support, despite the fact that it has mostly been a failure since its inception.
These are the people who showed up when the economy was shut down by the government, working in jobs labeled "essential."
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The bill would amp up surveillance while doing little to actually protect anyone.
The biggest beneficiaries of economic growth are poor people. But the deepest case for economic growth is a moral one.
On its 25th anniversary, the ASFA is in bad need of reform.
Heather Wallace plead guilty to child endangerment and can no longer work with kids.
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With government meddling, many farmers end up doing less with more, and people end up paying more for less.
While open-enrollment policies are intended to provide opportunities regardless of a student's zip code, many states fall short of this goal.
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The unsubstantiated threat that strangers with cannabis candy allegedly pose to trick-or-treaters is an urban legend that never dies.
Blue states may require the vaccine after the CDC recommends it, stripping families of a choice that should be theirs.
Myths about drug-laced Halloween candy just won't go away—no matter how stupid they become.
Fearmongering about mass school shootings leads to some dumb, privacy-threatening ideas.
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"Where is she going to put the grandkids if she doesn't create a bunkbed situation?"
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Too much government authority lends itself to swatting-style abuse.
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Under H.B. 6454, prescribing puberty blockers or cross-sex hormones would be treated as a more severe form of child abuse than starving or abandoning a kid.
From immigration to drug reform, there is plenty of potential for productive compromise.
School officials also cited concerns that the parade excludes children whose families do not celebrate Halloween, or whose parents cannot attend the event.
While the California Age-Appropriate Design Code Act was hailed as a victory for digital privacy, critics warn of a litany of unintended consequences.
Even though no one's trying to give your kid rainbow fentanyl this Halloween, it hasn't stopped journalists from repeating the myth.
Citing costs, California Gov. Gavin Newsom struck a victory for parental choice in education.
The Stolen Year acknowledges public school COVID failures but refuses to hold anyone responsible.
Child care centers should have the same development flexibility as charter schools.
An inspector general report found poor staff training led to children languishing for weeks in an emergency tent shelter inside an Army base in Texas last year.
Even if credentialed teachers help kids learn more, it’s not worth making D.C. day cares prohibitively expensive and pushing experienced teachers out of jobs.
Teachers unions and progressive politicians pushed for school closures during the pandemic. New assessments of 9-year-olds suggest a devastating learning loss.
The Netflix docu-thriller Keep Sweet: Pray and Obey shows the downfall of Warren Jeffs and the unjustified taking of 450 children inside his religious community.
From cronyist subsidies to an unfair tax code, there are several key fixes Congress could make to better serve the public.
Sarra's name was added to the government's official list of unfit caretakers after she briefly ran an errand without her kids in tow.
The rapper, podcaster, and author talks about "freedom, liberty, and all of that good stuff."
The pediatric neurosurgeon who first popularized shaken-baby syndrome has doubts about how it is used in courtrooms today.