Sometimes the very strategies meant to help children have the opposite effect. Join AEI’s Naomi Schaefer Riley and Ian Rowe as they look behind the headlines at the public policies and cultural agendas driving child welfare and education. Rowe and Riley bring to light practices that will make you ask, “Are you kidding me?”
Are You Kidding Me?
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Sometimes the very strategies meant to help children have the opposite effect. Join AEI’s Naomi Schaefer Riley and Ian Rowe as they look behind the headlines at the public policies and cultural agendas driving child welfare and education. Rowe and Riley bring to light practices that will make you ask, “Are you kidding me?”
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Recent Episodes
March 19, 2025
Farewell Episode: The Good, the Bad, and Looking Ahead
Hosts Naomi Schaefer Riley and Ian Rowe discuss recent policy successes and failures affecting children and outline necessary solutions for the future
January 15, 2025
Lynn Johnson on Child Welfare Priorities for the New Administration
<p>What will a new administration in Washington mean for American children, particularly the most vulnerable? </p><p>This week, Naomi and Ian are joined by Lynn Johnson, founder of All In Fostering Futures and former Assistant Secretary of the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) during the first Trump administration. Lynn explores the federal government's role in influencing child welfare at the state level and highlights how reducing regulations and compliance burdens can enable child welfare workers to focus more on serving children and families directly.</p><p>She reflects on ACF’s focus during the first Trump administration, particularly its efforts to prioritize permanency in order to improve long-term outcomes for children in foster care. Lynn also discusses the need to revisit certain policies around kinship care introduced during the Biden administration. She also argues that some of the Biden administration’s rules limited state governments’ ability to collaborate with faith-based organizations to support foster children. Finally, she underscores the importance of interagency efforts to promote stable families and prevent children from entering the foster system altogether.</p><p><strong>Resources </strong></p><p>• How Churches Can Make a Difference in the Lives of Children Who Need Foster Care | Naomi Schaefer Riley</p><p>• New White House Proposal to Further Alienate Religious Foster Parents | Naomi Schaefer Riley</p><p>• The Privilege Hiding in Plain Sight | Ian Rowe</p><p><strong>Show Notes</strong></p><p>• 00:47 | What were the child welfare priorities of the first Trump administration, and how much influence does the federal government have over policies regarding children and families? </p><p>• 02:20 | Is there a parallel between the Administration for Children and Families and the Department of Education, in terms of their ability to influence state and local policy?</p><p>• 04:40 | What steps did you take in your role during the first Trump administration, and what steps should be taken now that will get us closer to positive impact? </p><p>• 10:00 | What can the federal government do that states cannot do to support a child who has experienced extreme instability and a high number of placements in the foster system?</p><p>• 11:59 | What have the last four years looked like for child welfare under the Biden administration?</p><p>• 19:31 | The Biden administration worked to implement certain requirements for foster care organizations regarding LGBTQ+ children, which could have negative impact on faith-based agencies. How should the next administration approach this issue?</p><p>• 24:47 | How much should the federal government focus on prevention when it comes to child welfare issues? </p>
December 11, 2024
George Borjas on Mortality Rates Among Black Infants
<p>Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, in her dissent on the Supreme Court’s ruling on affirmative action in 2023, cited a study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) concluding that black infants are more likely to survive if they are cared for by black doctors than white doctors. But a recent study using the same data suggests that race was not the real factor. </p><p>This week, Naomi and Ian are joined by George J. Borjas, senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and Professor of Economics and Social Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, to discuss his recent paper co-authored with Robert VerBruggen, “Do Black Newborns Fare Better with Black Doctors? The Limits of Measuring Racial Concordance.” Originally part of a project analyzing the fragility of empirical findings in social science, George’s study reanalyzes the same data used in the PNAS study to see whether the same result emerged. He and VerBruggen found that if the data is adjusted for low birthweight, the correlation between race of the doctor and infant survival disappeared. Their research has now been published by the National Academy of Sciences. George discusses how the narrative about the original study persists even when new data has called it into question. </p><p><strong>Resources</strong></p><p>● Do Black Newborns Fare Better with Black Doctors? The Limits of Measuring Racial Concordance | George J. Borjas and Robert VerBruggen </p><p>● Are Black Newborns More Likely to Survive with Black Doctors? | George J. Borjas and Robert VerBruggen</p><p><strong>Show Notes</strong></p><p>● 00:47 | How did you become interested in the topic of mortality rates among black newborns? What did you find in your study?</p><p>● 05:50 | Why did your study find different results using the same data as the earlier one?</p><p>● 07:57 | Why did the original authors not include low birthweight as a factor in their study?</p><p>● 08:48 | What did you find about the distribution of doctors to women whose infants had low birthweight?</p><p>● 11:01 | Have you shared this new finding with the original authors of the study?</p><p>● 13:35 | Given that low birthweight is a universally accepted factor in infant mortality, are you surprised that the original result that black infants do better when they are matched with black doctors was so widely accepted?</p><p>● 17:17 | Has your study received the same kind of attention as the original study?</p><p>● 18:40 | Can we empirically answer the question of whether the specialties of doctors and their respective races is the driver of better results for black infants, rather than just the race itself?</p>
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