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Can’t Afford a House? Try Getting Married.
From right and left, we keep hearing how hard it is to afford a home. “A lot of young people are saying, ‘Housing is way too expensive,’” Vice President JD…
Blog Post
Welfare Reform and Its Discontents
…Flood, Miriam King, Renae Rodgers, Steven Ruggles, J. Robert Warren, Daniel Backman, Etienne Breton, Grace Cooper, Julia A. Rivera Drew, Stephanie Richards, David Van Riper, and Kari C.W. Williams. IPUMS…
Report
Rings to Roofs, Part I: One Million Homes Through Marriage
Executive Summary The American Enterprise Institute’s Housing Center has spent the past five years proposing solutions for the housing supply shortage in cities and states around the country. In large part,…
Op-Ed
The Ongoing Battle to Defend Welfare Reform
…of the Center on Opportunity and Social Mobility at the American Enterprise Institute. Kevin Corinth is the Daniel C. Searle Chair and a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute….
Commentary
Lessons from the 1996 Welfare Reform Law Approaching Its 30th Anniversary
…Large reductions in poverty. As household incomes swelled due to more work and earnings, poverty fell sharply—instead of rising as reform opponents dramatically predicted. The late Sen. Daniel Moynihan (D-NY)…
Op-Ed
The Hidden Factor in Student Success: Family Structure
Every summer, New Yorkers ask why so many Asian students and so few black students are admitted to the city’s elite public high schools. Only three of the 777 students…
Report
Family Structure, a Key Factor Hidden in Plain Sight: The Case for Federal Reporting in Education
Key Points • The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) collects family structure data but fails to report them. • Family structure is an important factor in student success. In…
Op-Ed
Are Big Families the Solution to Declining Fertility?
…start having children, the thinking goes, a more fruitful approach is to encourage current parents to add to their brood. As pronatalists Daniel Hess and Paul Morland enthusiastically suggest, “People who…
Article
The Shifting Composition Of SNAP Households
…as Brad Wilcox and his coauthors caution, the picture is not uniformly positive. Overall, marriage rates continue to decline, suggesting that while marriage as the preferred institution for raising children…
Op-Ed
The New Era for Nonprofits: America’s Old System of Federally Funded Nonprofits is Gone. What Comes Next?
…its inherent risks. Liberals like Democratic Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan and Independent Sector President Brian O’Connell warned that nonprofits’ growing reliance on government funding threatened their ability to serve as…
Op-Ed
Are conservative women embracing the ‘Supermom’ ideal?
…Brad Wilcox is director of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia, senior fellow of the Institute for Family Studies and a Deseret News contributor. Ken Burchfiel is…