Healthy Communities
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Healthy Communities

American communities are ravaged by opioids, families are fearful about basic safety, and parents are forced to fight against a radical transgender movement that rejects fundamental truths about human biology and pushes children down a path of despair. After decades of our civic foundations being hollowed out, the Center for Renewing America is committed to defeating these societal poisons and reviving the health of our communities. 

This fight begins with support of intact families, where fathers, mothers, and guardians are present and responsible for the education, growth, moral grounding, and civic duty instilled in their children. 

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Primer: Family Formation and Child-Care Policies

The child-care affordability crisis, then, is best understood not as a failure to subsidize enough institutional care, but as a failure to sustain an economy ordered toward family life.

Free Exercise Under Pressure: Civil-Rights Law and the Protection of Worship

Where demonstrators move beyond protected expression and into unlawful entry, physical obstruction, threats, or intimidation within a house of worship, both traditional state-law doctrines and federal civil-rights statutes provide a coherent and complementary basis for accountability.

Primer: An America First Vision for Health-Care

This is the first paper in the Center for Renewing America’s “Family and Future” series.

Fiscal Update of the United States: Resilience, Revenue Gains, and the Road to a Deal

The economy emerged from the shutdown with stronger underlying growth than anticipated, and tariff-driven revenues have been a boon for the federal balance sheet. Although the government is operating under a temporary budget fix, the weeks ahead offer an opportunity to capitalize on the economic growth already in progress.