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June 18, 2024
Economic Opportunity and Social Mobility
…the one before it, that doesn’t seem to be the case. As they approach and pass age 40, Millennial men and women have higher median hourly wages than any previous…
October 31, 2023
It Takes Two
…difference. They could adopt curriculums that emphasize the “success sequence,” as does the Vertex Partnership Academies network of charter schools founded by my American Enterprise Institute colleague, Ian Rowe. The success sequence…
June 21, 2023
The Bad Math Behind Economic Doomerism
…Cost-of-Thriving Index (COTI). The index takes the combined cost of five essential goods and services—groceries, transportation, housing, health insurance, and higher education—and divides it by the median weekly earnings of…
June 14, 2023
Better Data Means Better Policy
…index before 2000. Figure 1. Median household income using various inflation measures, United States, 1967-2021 Since all three series are expressed in 2021 dollars, median income is equal to the…