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Can Better Classrooms Lead to Empty Cells? An analysis of school funding and incarceration rates

| March 11, 2021 | Young Scholars

Can Better Classrooms Lead to Empty Cells? An analysis of school funding and incarceration rates
Thatcher Broyles was a 2019-2020 Young Scholar Awards Program recipient. He is a graduate of Belmont University where he majored in economics with a double minor in mathematics and finance. Incarceration rates within the United States have been the subject of heated...
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Doomsday Prepping: To What Extent Should We Depend on our Government?

| February 24, 2021

Doomsday Prepping: To What Extent Should We Depend on our Government?
Back in the relatively uneventful era of the early 2010s, my family and I enjoyed a National Geographic series called “Doomsday Preppers.” The fascinating people featured in the show were preparing for the apocalypse, or something close to it. We would sit in front of...
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Ella Sullivan
Ella Sullivan is the spring 2021 intern for the Initiative on Faith & Public Life. She is a graduate of The University of Dallas where she majored in politics.

Can Nuclear Energy Save Us from Climate Change?

| November 20, 2020 | Blog Contributor

Can Nuclear Energy Save Us from Climate Change?
If you want to understand the economics of the climate crisis, look no further than France and Germany. Despite its projected $580 billion investment in renewables by 2025, Germany records ten times higher greenhouse gas emissions than France. Meanwhile, French...
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Tennyson Bush
Tennyson Bush is a senior economics and international politics major at Wheaton College where he serves as managing editor of "The Wheaton Record." He was selected as a 2020 Blog Contributor for the Faith & Public Life blog.

Enlightened Cooperation: Why Libraries Work When Welfare Doesn’t

| November 20, 2020 | Blog Contributor

Enlightened Cooperation: Why Libraries Work When Welfare Doesn’t
Amidst a global pandemic and an economic recession, the American people are in need. Not just for human connection but also public assistance. Stimulus checks and unemployment benefits have led to mixed results and polarization threatens any further federal aid. It is...
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Alicia Rolsma
Alicia Rolsma is a senior studying political science at the University of Wisconsin – Madison and was selected as a 2020 Blog Contributor for the Faith & Public Life blog.

Where Did Our Trust Go?

| April 7, 2020 | Blog Contributor

Where Did Our Trust Go?
In my previous blog post, I made the argument that a free market system relies on relationships of trust in order to coordinate the abilities of producers to serve the real needs and wants of consumers. However, there is a non-trivial sense in the American public...
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Camryn Zeller
Camryn Zeller was selected as a 2020 Blog Contributor for the Faith & Public Life blog and is a junior at Hope College where she studies economics, political science, and math.