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November 17, 2024
Affordable Housing—and No Tax Hike
…raising tax rates. As an added bonus, this approach would be effective in addressing what Mayor Mike Johnston describes as Denver’s “downtown doom loop.” LUV housing in the top five…
November 15, 2024
JD Vance is Right: Reduce the Power of Big Foundations to Help Charity
…for those who have earned the funds being disbursed (e.g. John D. Rockefeller) to piggy banks for self-perpetuating boards and staffs with their own agendas. Better to tax those foundations…
October 1, 2024
For the Sake of the Kids: Strengthening Families in the Lone Star State
The family is the fundamental unit of society. As Pope Saint John Paul II so eloquently stated, “as the family goes, so goes the nation, and so goes the whole…
September 11, 2024
Doing Right by Kids: A Book Event
…Lehman, Fellow, Manhattan Institute John Lettieri, Cofounder, Economic Innovation Group Moderator: Ryan Streeter, Executive Director, Civitas Institute 12:15 a.m. Q&A 12:30 p.m. Lunch 1:00 p.m. Panel II: The Family and…
September 10, 2024
America is Still Working
…Labor Will Bring 6-Day Pay,” New York Times, September 26, 1926, p. 1, https://www.nytimes.com/1926/09/26/archives/ford-establishes-a-5day-week-after-test-expects-spur-to-labor-will.html?searchResultPosition=36. [15] John Maynard Keynes, “Economic Possibilities for Our Grandchildren,” in Essays in Persuasion (New York: W….
July 29, 2024
The Rise of ‘Marriage Deserts’ and What We Can Do About Them
What makes a marriage succeed or fail? To answer this question, psychologist John Gottman set up what came to be known as the “Love Lab” at the University of Washington…
June 26, 2024
American Workers Are Doing Great. They Could Be Doing Even Better.
Editor’s note: This is one of a pair of essays responding to the Economic Innovation Group’s report, “The American Worker: Toward a New Consensus”, by Adam Ozimek, John Lettieri, and…
June 20, 2024
The War on Poverty at 60: Lessons to Inform the Future
Event Summary On June 20, AEI’s Center on Opportunity and Social Mobility convened two panels to discuss the 60th anniversary of President Lyndon B. Johnson’s War on Poverty. The first…
June 12, 2024
Our Homeless Problem is Getting Out Of Control — What Can We Do?
The ongoing debate over fining individuals for sleeping in public spaces is currently being deliberated by the Supreme Court in City of Grants Pass v. Johnson. The case underscores a critical…
May 20, 2024
Indivar Dutta-Gupta and Scott Winship on the 60th Anniversary of LBJ’s “War on Poverty” on C-SPAN’s “Washington Journal”
Indivar Dutta-Gupta and Scott Winship talked about the 60th anniversary of President Lyndon B. Johnson’s “Great Society” speech and the war on poverty….