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May 29, 2024

Holding out Hope for a Left-Right Consensus on Federal Student Lending

…for many programs of questionable value. In fact, in a recent report co-authored with Beth alongside left-of-center scholars at The Century Foundation and Education Counsel, we endorsed the notion that federal graduate…

November 20, 2023

The Next Time States Are “Swimming in Money” Make Them Repay Their Federal Loans

The pandemic was full of firsts, including the first time states received hundreds of billions of federal dollars they could use to shore up their depleted state unemployment insurance (UI) programs. The…

September 13, 2023

American Dreamers

…economic progress for generations to come. Through ADI, AEI scholars are investing time and energy in policy analysis and development to expand access to the American dream for individuals, families…

September 12, 2023

Please, Gen Z Aren’t “Doomed to be the First Generation of Americans Who Will Grow Up with a Lower Standard of Living Than Their Parents”

…says this War might last for “a very long time.” Generals and military scholars will tell you that eight or 10 years is actually not such a long time in…

August 14, 2023

The Narcissism of Small Diffidences

…and a perceived threat, like our child getting cut from the A team, denied a scholarship, or rejected from their first-choice college.” They are living in a country where every…

August 1, 2023

How the Middle Class Is Faring: My Long-Read Q&A with Jeremy Horpedahl

…a weird thing to leave out. I know that sounds like a scholarly economist phrase, but to me it seems weird. Yeah, especially to me, because a lot of my…

May 30, 2023

Two Sentences Will Strengthen SNAP’s Support for Work

…For decades, SNAP administrators have said that it’s not really their job to help recipients find work. That attitude has endured even as scholars have found that the combination of…

May 4, 2023

Work Is Essential to the American Dream

…the best scholarship that can help them implement AEI scholars’ work in their communities. Please visit www.americandream.is to learn more about the work AEI scholars are producing as part of this project….

April 18, 2023

Introduction to The Social Breakdown

…with social capital and civil society. As far back as the 1970s, AEI organized the “Mediating Structures Project.” Led by scholars including Peter Berger, Douglas Besharov, Irving Kristol, Leslie Lenkowsky,…