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September 3, 2024
Doing Right by Kids: A Book Event
…S. Hymowitz, William E. Simon Fellow, Manhattan Institute Matt Weidinger, Rowe Scholar, American Enterprise Institute Brad Wilcox, Nonresident Senior Fellow, American Enterprise Institute Moderator: Kevin Corinth, Deputy Director, Center on…
March 12, 2024
Family Dinners Offer a Silver Lining in a Bleak Social Capital Landscape
…not widen over time. Our colleague, Dan Cox, has surveyed American adults and asked them retrospectively whether they had “family meals everyday growing up.” He found that the share answering…
February 8, 2024
Another Flawed Analysis Shows that Single Mothers are Highly Sensitive to Changes in Work Incentives
…fashion, Bastian cites a paper by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities that estimates the effect of the proposed CTC reforms on child poverty (Cox, et al., 2024). That…
May 4, 2023
The Social Breakdown: The Poverty of Family, Community, and Religious Life in America
On May 4, AEI’s Center on Opportunity and Social Mobility (COSM) hosted the launch of “The Social Breakdown,” a new research series dedicated to the study of social capital. https://www.youtube.com/embed/SWmPhcul8NE…
May 3, 2023
The Mainline Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Social Capitalism
…and areas with many mainliners the best. Sociologists have observed these trends in prior work, including our colleague, W. Bradford Wilcox. Wilcox argues that mainline adherents tend to “talk left…