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November 15, 2024
JD Vance is Right: Reduce the Power of Big Foundations to Help Charity
…an extended deduction will or won’t increase giving. Lawmakers, instead, worry about the revenue loss to the IRS that would result. Indeed, the CARES Act incentive, now expired, has been…
November 5, 2024
Harvard Professor Edward Glaeser on the U.S. Housing Crisis
…work highlights the relationship between housing supply, urban growth, and economic prosperity, offering insights for policymakers to create more sustainable and equitable urban environments through improved housing strategies. Glaeser also…
October 21, 2024
US Tariffs Will Not Bring Back Jobs from China
…response. Worse, the protectionism of the Trump-Pence and Biden-Harris administrations has visibly hurt workers and consumers. Part of the reason policymakers have taken such a wrong turn is that the…
October 18, 2024
What’s Working in America’s Workforce System
…facing policymakers is how to break out of this negative equilibrium? On this topic, What’s Working? has answers. Our volume contains a range of recommendations for improving the existing system including increased…
October 16, 2024
Kevin Corinth: Addressing Social Capital Poverty in America
…relationship between economic and social factors, highlighting the need for a more comprehensive approach to addressing societal challenges. As policymakers and communities grapple with these issues, Kevin Corinth from the…
October 9, 2024
Learning the Right Lessons from the “China Shock”
…it is about consumption, productivity growth, and wage growth. What, then, are the right lessons? There are two important lessons for economists and policymakers from the “China shock” literature. First,…
October 3, 2024
Protectionism is Failing and Wrongheaded: An Evaluation of the Post-2017 Shift toward Trade Wars and Industrial Policy
…the US and Chinese economies. More fundamentally, the goals that have not been met are wrongheaded: policymakers should not pay inordinate attention to manufacturing employment, and the trade deficit is…
September 20, 2024
Don’t Believe the Doomsayers. The American Dream Is Still In Reach for Young People
…connection.” In other words, policymakers should deemphasize cash transfer programs that provide public dollars directly to individuals, unconditionally. These “no-strings-attached” programs often have the behavioral effect of discouraging work. Instead,…
September 17, 2024
Back to School: Shedding Light on Risks and Harm in the Private Student Lending and Servicing Market
At present there are more than 1.74 trillion dollars in student loans outstanding in the US economy. This is a massive amount of money that represents serious liabilities for millions…
September 11, 2024
Doing Right by Kids: A Book Event
…school reform and properly assessing student outcomes, and AEI’s Beth Akers addressed the absence of accountability and some of the cultural issues surrounding higher education. The event concluded with a…