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From Family Collapse to America's Decline

The Educational, Economic, and Social Costs of Family Fragmentation

By: Mitch Pearlstein

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From Family Collapse to America's Decline

The Educational, Economic, and Social Costs of Family Fragmentation

By: Mitch Pearlstein

Very high rates of family fragmentation in the United States are subtracting from what very large numbers of students are learning in school and forever holding them back in many other ways. This in turn is damaging the country economically by making us less primed for innovation while also making millions of Americans less competitive in an increasingly demanding worldwide marketplace. All of which is leading – and can only lead – to deepening class divisions in a nation which has never viewed itself or operated in such splintered ways. What can be done to reverse these severely destructive trends, starting with reducing the enormous number of children forced to grow up with only one parent living under the same roof? What educational reforms are most likely to help under such demanding circumstances? And as dangerous as the situation is, why do leaders in education and other fields persist, for both understandable and less-worthy reasons, in dancing around profoundly important questions of family breakdown to the point of contortion and ultimately failure?

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1607093634

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Broken Bonds

What Family Fragmentation Means for America’s Future

By: Mitch Pearlstein

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Broken Bonds

What Family Fragmentation Means for America’s Future

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The United States has the highest family fragmentation rates in the industrial world. Nonmarital birth rates for the nation as a whole are 40%, with proportions dramatically higher in many communities as defined by race, ethnicity, or geography. Divorce rates, while moderating in recent decades, are still estimated at about 40% for first marriages and 50% for second ones. Together, this fragmentation impacts millions of children as well as adults, leading to educational, economic, and other losses that in turn lead to lower social mobility and deepening class divisions. In Broken Bonds, Mitch Pearlstein explores the declining state of the American family and what its disintegration means for our future. Based on candid interviews with forty leading family experts across the political spectrum - from Stephanie Coontz, to Heather Mac Donald - Pearlstein ruminates on the political, social, and spiritual fallout of this trend. In honest and frank conversations, Pearlstein and his interviewees fearlessly diagnose the problems that many have been too timid to explore and suggest ways to reverse these trends that threaten our social fabric.

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1442236647

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Education Roads Less Traveled

Solving America's Fixation on Four-Year Degrees

By: Mitch Pearlstein

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Solving America's Fixation on Four-Year Degrees

By: Mitch Pearlstein

Every year, large numbers of American young people who are not terribly interested in attending a four-year college reluctantly enroll anyway, effectively pressured by combinations of parents, peers, teachers, guidance counselors, and the normative air they breathe. More than occasionally, they wind up confirming that collegiate life is not for them and, sooner or later, drop out. From there, again more than occasionally, they find themselves unemployed or underemployed, in big-time student debt, and quite possibly feeling like a failure. Cratered paths like these routinely stunt entries to middle-class jobs and careers. These are often needless delays and losses, because other education and career routes are primed to better serve millions of young men and women, especially those who enjoy working with their hands. Taking advantage of these routes also simultaneously enriches our economy. Digging deeply into issues like these is the book’s main aim. Helping teenagers think through what they want to do with their lives occupationally is its main educational mission. Recognizing the economic and other dangers posed by severe skill gaps, made worse by the retirement of skilled baby boomers, adds urgency to the mix.

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What Family Fragmentation Means for America’s Future

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Solving America's Fixation on Four-Year Degrees

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Solving America's Fixation on Four-Year Degrees

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Keeping the Republic

Saving America by Trusting Americans

By: Mitch Daniels

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Keeping the Republic

Saving America by Trusting Americans

By: Mitch Daniels

Upon leaving the Constitutional Convention, Benjamin Franklin was asked what sort of government the delegates had created. His reply to the crowd: "A republic, if you can keep it." Now America's most respected governor explains just how close we've come to losing the republic, and how we can restore it to greatness. Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels has been called "the most presidential man in America." He has brought more change to his state in a few years than most see in decades. During his tenure, Daniels turned a $700 million deficit into a billion dollar surplus, balanced Indiana's budget even during the recession, converted its once unattractive business climate into one of the strongest for private sector job growth. The Hoosier state is now a model of good and efficient governance. Its public sector payroll is now the smallest per capita in the nation. And yet services have improved across the board. Even its Bureau of Motor Vehicles -- the ultimate symbol of dysfunctional bureaucracy - has been rated the best in the country. Daniels has done this by focusing on government's core responsibilities, cutting taxes, empowering citizens, and performing what he calls an "old tribal ritual" - spending less money than his state takes in, while distinguishing between skepticism towards big government and hostility towards all government. Unfortunately few politicians have the discipline or courage to follow his lead. And worse, many assume that Americans are too intimidated, gullible or dim-witted to make wise decisions about their health care, mortgages, the education of their kids, and other important issues. The result has been a steady decline in freedom, as elite government experts -- "our benevolent betters", in Daniels' phrase -- try to regulate every aspect of our lives. Daniels bluntly calls our exploding national debt "a survival-level threat to the America we have known." He shows how our underperforming public schools have produced a workforce unprepared to compete with those of other countries and ignorant of the requirements of citizenship in a free society. He lays out the risk of greatly diminished long term prosperity and the loss of our position of world leadership. He warns that we may lose the uniquely American promise of upward mobility for all. But, the good news is that it's not too late to save America. However, real change can't be imposed from above. It has to be what he calls "change that believes in you" -- a belief that Americans, properly informed of the facts, will pull together to make the necessary changes and that they are best- equipped to make the decisions governing their own lives. As he puts it: "I urge great care not to drift into a loss of faith in the American people. We must never yield to the self-fulfilling despair that these problems are immutable, or insurmountable. Americans are still a people born to liberty. Addressed as free-born, autonomous men and women of God-given dignity, they will rise yet again to drive back a mortal enemy.

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1595230963

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From Family Collapse to America's Decline

The Educational, Economic, and Social Costs of Family Fragmentation

By: Mitch Pearlstein

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The Educational, Economic, and Social Costs of Family Fragmentation

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Riding Into the Sunrise

Al Quie, a Life of Faith, Service & Civility

By: Mitchell Pearlstein

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Riding Into the Sunrise

Al Quie, a Life of Faith, Service & Civility

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Riding into the Sunrise is more than a conventional biography about a good man. It s also more than a conventional review of Al Quie s political victories and defeats over three decades in elected office as a Republican, including twenty-one years in Congress and four years as governor of Minnesota. Rich in memories and stories, it connects virtually every sphere and thread in his remarkable days and celebrates his lifetime love of God and allegiance to Him. In a time of polarization, Riding into the Sunrise highlights how Quie s idea of politics continues to be radically different from mean-spirited and bunkered types practiced too often by others.

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1880654458

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From Family Collapse to America's Decline

From Family Collapse to America's Decline

Broken Bonds

Broken Bonds

Education Roads Less Traveled

Education Roads Less Traveled

Broken Bonds

Broken Bonds

Education Roads Less Traveled

Education Roads Less Traveled

Keeping the Republic

Keeping the Republic

From Family Collapse to America's Decline

From Family Collapse to America's Decline

Riding Into the Sunrise

Riding Into the Sunrise

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