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Opportunity Book: A New Tool for Connecting Policymakers with Innovative Ideas
Today the Center on Opportunity and Social Mobility at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) is releasing Opportunity Book, a new online tool that connects policymakers, journalists, and researchers with innovative…
Commentary
Assessing Duplicative Federal Benefit Programs and Preventing Abuse
…from multiple sources, and provided additional benefit supplements. Some lawmakers have introduced legislation to make permanent some of those now-expired pandemic programs.[7] How Much Do Means-Tested and Related Benefit Programs…
Op-Ed
Congress Gave Families a Raise. Now Let Parents Decide How to Use It.
Congress delivered a big win for families in last year’s reconciliation law. By raising the Child Tax Credit to $2,200 per child and indexing it to inflation, lawmakers committed up to $37,400 in…
Commentary
Summary and Analysis of the “Stop Unemployment Fraud Act”
…unemployment benefit spending in response to the Great Recession, the most serious economic crisis since the 1930s. It is critical that lawmakers recognize the program flaws and policy mistakes…
Op-Ed
Reforming Health Care
…consumers navigate this complex market environment. That is not the case. Policymakers should see health care spending as falling into two categories, both of which can be placed within a…
Blog Post
The Mirage of “Pro-Worker AI” via Public Policy
Calls for governments to push “pro-worker AI” sound appealing. The idea is simple: If policymakers deftly guide how the technology develops, they can make sure it helps workers instead of…
Blog Post
States Are Taking the Reins on College Accountability
…the states. In March 2025, Utah lawmakers passed H.B. 265, directing public institutions to redirect funding toward areas aligned with state workforce needs. The legislation emphasized strengthening programs that feed high-demand…
Blog Post
The Side Effects of the No Surprises Act
…story, however. To get the NSA enacted, key policymakers had to strike a compromise between insurers and the holdout physician groups refusing to sign in-network contracts. The two sides agreed…
Op-Ed
Washington, Not Wall Street, Is the Real Housing Problem
…housing costs and the belief that Wall Street landlords are crowding out families. The sentiment is understandable. But it is largely aimed at the wrong target—and risks distracting policymakers from…
Commentary
Medicaid’s Multiple Roles
…Congress and the states have assembled such an unwieldy and uncoordinated anti-poverty portfolio that policymakers have difficulty fully grasping what it contains much less what might happen if they attempted…
Journal Publication
Turnover Tactics: Unveiling the Frequency and Mechanisms of Counseling Out
…or outside their district. These findings underscore the prevalent use of counseling out as a human resource management practice among principals and suggest a need for school districts and policymakers…
Testimony
Protecting Students and Taxpayers: Strengthening Accountability and Value in Higher Education
…those changes were necessary; and third, what work remains unfinished and what Congress could consider in a second reconciliation package. Read and watch the full testimony here (testimony begins at 16:50). Akers_House-Education-Workforce-Testimony_02-04-2026Download…