"You Will Regret It!" NCAA Swimmer Breaks Her Silence: Former UPenn swimmer and Lia Thomas teammate Paula Scanlan has announced that she is joining IWV Advisor Riley Gaines in the fight to save women’s sports. In a new video, Scanlan released a personal statement sharing details of how the university harassed, manipulated, and bullied her and her fellow teammates into silence on the Thomas situation. The university went as far as to weaponize their “counseling services,” offering to re-educate teammates who felt uncomfortable. As tennis legend Martina Navratilova put it on Twitter, "Nicely put NCAA and UPenn. Nope-we will not regret it. We will not be silenced."

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Boys Need a Pathway to Manhood

They say that “boys will be boys,” but they say it with an eye roll. We don’t want boys to “be boys” when boyhood is associated with bad behavior, immaturity, messiness, and raucousness. Similarly, society’s message for what we really want for and from grown men is often unclear, and the connotation of that message often negative. We’ve got to change this if we want to address the male crisis. Men are falling behind women — and men of previous generations — in education, work, and life. Read More.

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School Leaders Can Mitigate the Teacher Hiring Crisis

The teacher-hiring crisis is far from over. High teacher-turnover rates are outpacing the sharp decline in student enrollment numbers in K-12 public schools. Consider just a few examples of the nationwide trend. North Carolina faced a 12.1% teacher departure rate for the 2021-2022 school year, followed by 15.6% of teachers exiting the profession for 2022-2023. Louisiana had similar rates, at 11.1% and 13.9%, respectively. Washington State came in at 10% and 12% for those same years, experiencing the highest percentage loss of teachers for the state in more than three decades. Read More.

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A Federal $17 Minimum Wage

Which of the following is NOT true about the federal $17 minimum wage?

A. It would not cost any jobs.
B. Only a tiny fraction of all working women earn minimum wage, so this would not have a huge positive impact on all women.
C. Real family income would fall overall.

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The Battle of the Dueling Federal Budgets

President Biden's and the Republican Study Committee's budgets could not be more stark highlighting the varying policy priorities of the left and right. We will see how the budget process unfolds, but conservatives have put forward a good plan to provide relief today, spark economic growth tomorrow, and move us onto a path of sustainability in the future.

California Moves to Further Destroy Its Fast Food Industry

California never ceases to stun the world with its flawed policy choices. Its latest bad decision comes from the California Assembly, which just passed AB 1228, the Fast-Food Franchisor Responsibility Act. This seeks to establish joint liability between California quick-service franchise brands and their independent franchisees with 100 or more locations nationwide.

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