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How would a crackdown backfire? Because it would produce, immediately in Colorado, and eventually in other states, an atomized, anarchic state legalized but unregulated marijuana market that federal drug enforcers lack the manpower to contain and lack the legal power to force the states to contain.

May 8, 2013, Stuart S. Taylor, Jr., KCRW

College Is The Holy Grail, But Should Everyone Go?

May 8, 2013, Isabel V. Sawhill

Should Everyone Go To College?

May 8, 2013, Stephanie Owen and Isabel V. Sawhill

Time for Change: A New Federal Strategy to Prepare Disadvantaged Students for College

May 7, 2013, Ron Haskins and Cecilia Elena Rouse

Is There a Better Way to Prepare Disadvantaged Students for College?

May 7, 2013

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Subsidizing Higher Education May Not Be Paying Off

May 7, 2013, Isabel V. Sawhill and Ron Haskins

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Improving College Prep. for Low-Income Students

May 7, 2013, Ron Haskins and Cecilia Elena Rouse

Often the major problem is that the governments aren't enforcing the labor laws and the safety standards and regulations that they've actually agreed to and the international agreements they've signed up to.

May 2, 2013, Jane Nelson, National Public Radio

Why Global Education Financing Must Be Part of Europe's Financial Transaction Tax Revenues for Development

May 1, 2013, Sarah O’Hagan and Rebecca Winthrop

How Much Do Americans Care About Income Inequality?

April 30, 2013, Scott Winship

Subjective Well‐Being and Income: Is There Any Evidence of Satiation?

April 2013, Betsey Stevenson and Justin Wolfers

You Can Never Have Too Much Money, New Research Shows

April 29, 2013

The Common Good: Theoretical Content, Practical Utility

April 26, 2013, William A. Galston

The Final Countdown: Prospects for Ending Extreme Poverty by 2030 (Interactive)

April 24, 2013, Laurence Chandy, Natasha Ledlie and Veronika Penciakova

Inequality and Inclusive Growth in Africa: A Conversation with South African Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan

April 17, 2013

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Money Illusion, the Chained CPI, and the Benefits of Inflation

April 17, 2013, Isabel V. Sawhill

On the Budget, Obama's Opening Bid Was Reasonable

April 16, 2013, Ron Haskins

Why Tax Day Is the Best Day to Save Money

April 15, 2013, Michal Grinstein-Weiss

Marijuana Legalization: Are There Alternatives to State-Federal Conflict?

April 15, 2013

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Comments on David Blanchflower, David Bell, Alberto Montagnoli, and Mirko Moro, “The Effects of Macroeconomic Shocks on Well-being”

April 12, 2013, Carol Graham

Marijuana Policy and Presidential Leadership: How to Avoid a Federal-State Train Wreck

April 11, 2013, Stuart S. Taylor, Jr.

The idea is that these metrics can complement [measures such as GDP]…and they often tell us very different things. [Well-being data] give you a wider choice set when you're making a policy decision.

April 10, 2013, Carol Graham, Wall Street Journal

Facing Mainland China: Taiwan’s Future Challenges

April 10, 2013, Richard C. Bush III

How Much Money Are U.S. Workers Earning?

April 8, 2013, Scott Winship

Let’s Go Down the Aisle Toward Legalized Pot

April 5, 2013, Jonathan Rauch