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September 10, 2024
America is Still Working
…to 2022 are from files offered by the Minnesota Population Center at the University of Minnesota. (See Sarah Flood, Miriam King, Renae Rodgers, Steven Ruggles, J. Robert Warren, Daniel Backman,…
December 13, 2023
Stronger Families, Safer Streets
…family. Drawing on the work of scholars like Harvard sociologist Robert Sampson—who found that “(f)amily structure is one of the strongest, if not the strongest, predictors of … urban violence…
November 14, 2023
The Comeback City
…the process of change. Don’t expect it to take less than thirty years.”3 Read the full report. Sam Roberts, “Given New York Today, Could Anyone Lead It?,” New York Times,…
May 3, 2023
The Mainline Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Social Capitalism
…free institutions.”[1] Over a century and a half later, reviewing the state of American community life, Robert Putnam affirmed Tocqueville’s observation. In his magisterial Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival…
March 2, 2023
The Lost World of Ecumenical Republicanism
…1968 campaign, Price had joined John Doar (father of Robert Doar, president of AEI, where I’m employed), working for the bi-partisan economic development effort of Democratic Senator Robert Kennedy and Republican Senator…
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 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…