How America Stopped Caring About the Poor

The “war on poverty” once animated voters. Now we’ll be lucky if Biden’s child tax credit survives.

The Expanded Child Tax Credit Isn’t Selling Itself

Democrats presumed sending out checks would build public support for extending the policy. It didn’t. They need to find out why.

Joe Biden and Mitt Romney have interesting, important plans to help working mothers. Conservatives say this will reduce work. Oh, please.

His $1.9 trillion Covid stimulus plan includes a big child tax credit reportedly delivered in a radically new way.

A new report makes a nuanced case for what post-secondary graduates need to get ahead.

by Bruno V. Manno

Congress finally opened Pell Grants to short-term job training. Now states have to build the systems that can tell which programs actually work.

by Bruno V. Manno

High costs, political attacks take a toll as fewer students come, top scholars leave.

by Jon Marcus

New survey data suggests that more Americans might see the value of a degree if schools simplified their pricing systems.

by Michael T. Nietzel