Creating Good Jobs in America, a Primer on US Education, and More

April 25, 2023

People wearing face masks walk in a subway station in Beijing during rush hour

China’s shrinking population and constraints on its future power

Defeatism and fear about China’s economic and strategic rise should be tempered with the many challenges affecting the country—including its declining population. Michael O’Hanlon writes that the demographic transition in China will constitute a major constraint on the growth of the country’s power.

Students throwing their graduation caps into the air

US college prices aren’t skyrocketing—but they’re still too high for some

At four-year public and private institutions, the total cost of attendance almost tripled between 1979-80 and 2020-21. But not all students pay the full cost, or “sticker price,” featured in headlines. To understand changes in college affordability, we need to track not only the highly visible sticker prices but also financial aid and net prices, Phillip Levine argues.

NASA satellite image shows the United States, Mexico, and Canada at night

Listen: Will the US attain a competitive global spectrum strategy?

Today, the United States trails other countries in 5G spectrum, the frequencies that deliver our wireless communications. On the latest episode of the TechTank podcast, Nicol Turner Lee sits down with Scott Blake Harris—senior spectrum advisor in the Office of the Assistant Secretary at the National Telecommunications Information Administration—to discuss a national strategy around spectrum deployment.

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