Social Capital Project

While there are good reasons not to rely on the tax code to promote social goals, its imbalanced treatment of spending and saving actually discourages savings and thereby poses a barrier to social capital investment. Universal savings accounts would help rectify this bias.

There is a strong family affordability case for avoiding policies that increase home prices. The current slate of itemized deductions is ineffective in achieving the goal of family affordability, and the system is therefore ripe for reform.

From 2017 to 2018, the age-adjusted mortality rate from deaths of despair ticked down from 45.8 to 45.3 per 100,000.

Even in our twenty-first-century American society, associational life ought to be at the center of thinking about our social order and public policy. This report discusses rebuilding civil society. It lays out the nature of our diminished civil society, documents trends in its decline, and charts a path to its renewal.

The American education system makes it difficult for parents to individually tailor their children’s educational experience. Most families are defaulted into a one-size-fits-all model, designed in the age of assembly lines, and no longer fit for era of technological disruption.

The Latest

May 26 2020

Saving for Social Capital

May 18 2020

Priced Out: Why Federal Tax Deductions Miss the Mark on Family Affordability

Feb 20 2020

Update: Deaths Of Despair Declined In 2018

Dec 18 2019

The Space Between: Renewing the American Tradition of Civil Society

Dec 10 2019

Multiple Choice: Increasing Pluralism in the American Education System