Not rendering correctly? View this email as a web page here.

Connecting today’s news with the research & opinion you need.

A Bright Young Star

 

What to Know: Podcaster Allie Beth Stuckey believes that America is worth celebrating, and that civil society is worth preserving.

 

The TPPF Take: Allie Beth recently joined TPPF’s Kevin Roberts for a Livestream event to discuss civil society and more.

 

“Many of us have been thinking—and praying—about the state of our society,” says Kevin. “Joining me today is a great young and conservative luminary, Allie Beth Stuckey. Over the course of an hour, we provide a little more optimism for all of our futures.”

How Not to Help

 

What to Know: The Austin City Clerk’s office says a petition drive to get homelessness policies onto a city-wide ballot has failed to get enough signatures.

 

The TPPF Take: The city of Austin is committed to its failed approach to the issue of homelessness.

 

“The city’s policy is called ‘Housing First,’ and it’s a dehumanizing approach,” says TPPF’s Andrew Brown. “Under this approach, a single man struggling with drug addiction or mental illness is treated the same as a mother with children, without any expectation that either engage in life improvement services such as mental health treatment, addiction recovery or job training.”

Credential Inflation

 

What to Know: President Trump’s recent executive order allowing many government jobs to be held by Americans who don’t have a college degree will go a long way to fight “credential inflation,” one expert says.

 

The TPPF Take: Credential inflation, or the increase in education requirements for a job, has been a growing problem.

 

“It unnecessarily reduces opportunities for many qualified workers,” says TPPF’s Andrew Gillen. “If a job doesn’t truly need a college education, yet a college education is a job requirement, then many otherwise qualified workers will be passed over, thus impeding their upward economic mobility. And it undervalues other kinds of learning.”