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Understanding the border crisis
Season 1 Episode 34
What is going on at the U.S./Mexico border in Texas? After a wave of national news coverage profiling recent significant increases in border crossing…
2 years, 6 months ago
Should Utah keep ranked choice voting as an option for local elections? With Josh Daniels
Season 1 Episode 33
Should municipal governments be allowed to use ranked choice voting for local elections? The Utah State Legislature has recently taken up the questio…
2 years, 6 months ago
Can this one civic institution save civilization? Brad Wilcox on his new book: Get Married
Season 1 Episode 32
What if many of the challenges American society is facing today – declining happiness, "deaths of despair," eroding civic engagement, insufficient up…
2 years, 7 months ago
Why Utah Needs a Religious Freedom Restoration Act
Season 1 Episode 31
Utah could strengthen religious freedom protections in a significant way during the current legislative session, with the passage of a state version …
2 years, 7 months ago
What Utah's ranking as best state for social mobility teaches us about poverty
Season 1 Episode 30
What are the right ingredients for creating the best chance of upward mobility for the most people? Policy experts and elected officials trying to re…
2 years, 7 months ago
Are we losing the war on poverty? Angela Rachidi on the success sequence as a solution
Season 1 Episode 29
Sixty years ago, President Lyndon B. Johnson launched America's "War on Poverty." The goal? To equip Americans stuck in poverty with the tools to ach…
2 years, 7 months ago
Is work a punishment or a blessing?
Season 1 Episode 28
Is work a punishment or a blessing? This question is often at the heart of debates about how to help people striving to get out of poverty as well as…
2 years, 8 months ago
Are you economically better off today than four years ago?
Season 1 Episode 27
Are you better off today than you were four years ago?
This is a common question voters hear from candidates during an election year. But on this epi…
2 years, 8 months ago
How marriage and family impact America's civic health
Season 1 Episode 26
As the policy implications of intact families gain traction in public debate, one positive impact of healthy marriages and strong families often gets…
2 years, 8 months ago
Family relationships are an antidote to America's loneliness epidemic
Season 1 Episode 25
Public discussions of "the good life" usually center on things like a quality job, decent pay and other benefits that are primarily material. But wha…
2 years, 8 months ago