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October 2, 2024
Higher Education: Making Education Beyond High School Work for All
…federal loans. Many students, especially those who grew up in families below the median income, got a raw deal from higher education. Disillusionment with college has yielded a 12 percent drop in…
September 10, 2024
America is Still Working
…are the average across people of (weeks worked last year * usual hours per week worked last year). The estimates are for the civilian noninstitutionalized population of Americans aged 16…
May 14, 2024
Understanding Trends in Worker Pay over the Past 50 years
…the median worker has slowed, causing growth in the pay of the median worker to slow. The slowdown in median pay also reflects the particularly slow growth in pay among…
March 27, 2024
Perspectives on Place-Based Policy: Strategies for Workforce and Economic Development
Opportunity varies by place in the US, with the lowest levels of opportunity in states in the former Confederacy and American Indian reservations. Rural America faces unique challenges in relative…
December 13, 2023
Stronger Families, Safer Streets
…median share of single-parent families, compared to cities that have fewer single-parent families. That difference is even larger with respect to violent crime and homicide, specifically, with cities above the…
February 22, 2023
Unlocking the Future
Editor’s Note: The following chapters are AEI scholars’ contributions to a report from Opportunity America’s working group on K-12 education. The toll of the pandemic years is becoming clearer every…
February 23, 2022
The Case Against Universal Free Lunch
…a free lunch.” But libertarian and small-government opponents of universalizing school lunch have taken the admonition too literally. Beyond the taxpayer sticker shock, we should far more carefully consider the…
October 20, 2021
Public Places and Commercial Spaces: How Neighborhood Amenities Foster Trust and Connection in American Communities
…cities. White and rural Americans are more positive than Black, Hispanic, Asian, and urban Americans are about the current state of their communities but less optimistic about the future of…
July 2, 2021
Addressing the Shortcomings of the Supplemental Poverty Measure
…Index for All Urban Consumers each year, and a relative measure should update thresholds by the same percentage at which median income changes each year. Remove geographic adjustments from the…