Throughout the debt-ceiling negotiations, funding for the Federal Pell Grant Program, which gives low-income students access to higher education through need-based grants that don’t have to be repaid, has been tossed around as a bargaining chip. Though the bulk of Pell spending is discretionary, the program has entitlement status in that each student eligible to […]
James Wilson
James Q. Wilson is professor emeritus at the University of California-Los Angeles.
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Is the Marriage Debate Over?
In his new book, The Marriage Problem: How Our Culture Has Weakened Families, James Q. Wilson argues that “in much of the Western and Caribbean worlds, marriage is in trouble.” Wilson reports that the results have been devastating, especially for children. He calls for cultural and institutional changes that would strengthen marriage. Meanwhile, in a […]
