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September 3, 2024
…Opportunity and Social Mobility, American Enterprise Institute 2:00 p.m. Q&A 2:15 p.m. Panel III: Early Childhood, K–12, and Higher Education Panelists: Beth Akers, Senior Fellow, American Enterprise Institute Chester E….
August 26, 2024
…According to Elizabeth Grossman, general counsel for FHJC, “There is no valid or even rational reason for landlords and brokers to discriminate against those with housing vouchers.” That’s just not…
August 2, 2024
Today’s US jobs report finds the nation’s unemployment rate increased to 4.3 percent in July. According to a measure often cited by liberal policymakers, that suggests the US has entered…
July 17, 2024
…policy recommendations,” but instead “is intended to provide policymakers, advocates, and the media with a range of thoughts” on the broad range of UI reform topics the task force reviewed. I…
June 26, 2024
…words: I enthusiastically agree. I would articulate that consensus as follows: American workers are doing great. But we should not be satisfied. Workers could be doing even better, and policymakers…
June 20, 2024
…Society and welfare reform and what policymakers should do going forward. Isabel V. Sawhill of the Brookings Institution advocated increasing the minimum wage and expanding the earned income tax credit…
May 16, 2024
…Act (ARPA) made it available to non-workers on the same basis as workers. Attempts to make this reform permanent foundered, in part, due to opposition from policymakers who worried that…
May 14, 2024
…shift to a service economy and the dissipation of “breadwinner rents” that went to sole male breadwinners in an era when women’s economic opportunities were constrained. Policymakers should seek to…
April 23, 2024
Birthrates are low and falling in the United States, and commentators and policymakers are starting to realize this is a problem. It’s tempting to assume that this is about affordability: People aren’t…
April 18, 2024
…and, unsurprisingly, federal lawmakers are using rising levels of food insecurity to advocate for expansions to federal government programs. Unfortunately, policymakers are conflating hunger and food insecurity – a subjective…