Op-Eds Poverty, Social Mobility, and Opportunity “DOGE Can Drive Reforms in America’s Broken Safety Net Programs” (with Matt Weidinger)RealClearPolicy, December 2024 “Illinois licensing reforms are a way to reduce racial inequality”Chicago Sun-Times, January 2025 “Chicago's War on Poverty Has Failed”National Review, December 2023 “Progressives and Conservatives Can Agree on Poverty Solutions”Center Square, April 2024 “Letter to the Department of Government Efficiency on Possible Reforms to the Welfare System” (multiple authors)cosm.AEI.org, December 2024 “When It Comes To Fighting Poverty, We Actually Agree On A Lot”Discourse, March 2024 “Occupational Licensing Reform can Empower Illinoisans”Center Square, November 2024 Persuasion “Don't cede fairness to liberals”The Washington Times, April 2023 “The Right Way to Label the Left”National Review, July 2023 “How Can You Advocate For Abundance With Skeptics?”Discourse, April 2023 Housing “Expanding alternative housing will make Chicago more affordable”Crain’s Chicago Business, September 2024 “They're Addressing Housing Affordability In Chicago.”RealClearMarkets, July 2024 “ADUs would boost housing equity in Black Neighborhoods.”Chicago Sun-Times, November 2024 Economic and Fiscal Issues “A Mansion Tax Could Accelerate Chicago's Urban Exodus" (with Andrew Wilford)”RealClearMarkets, March 2024 “Look for Chicago's pension mess to become worse. That's a bad sign for taxpayers” (with Ted Debrowski and Denis LaComb)Chicago Sun-Times, April 2024 “Will mayor’s pension working group tackle the problem?”Chicago Tribune, February 2024 “Millionaire’s Tax Would Give IL Cover to Hike on Everyone”RealClearMarkets, November 2024 Education “Illinois could lower unemployment with more apprenticeship programs”Chicago Sun-Times, April 2024 “CPS needs systemic change to better serve kids and families”Chicago Sun-Times, August 2023 “Chicago Teachers Union President Ends Equity Debate by Exercising Choice.”RealClearPolicy, September 2023 The Abundance Agenda “Democrats and Republicans: Unite Around Abundance” (with Richard Morrison.The Washington Examiner, January 2024 “"A Successful Abundance Agenda Must Address Americans' Anxieties” (with Richard Morrison)Discourse, January 2023 “Making the Case for Abundance”Discourse, March 2023