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February 11, 2025

AI and the Future of Work Looks Bright

…demands. A project spearheaded by AEI, the Stanford University Digital Economy Lab and NYU is developing novel ways of connecting disparate data sets at the local, state and regional levels…

February 3, 2025

Legislators Want to Give Tens of Millions of Free Lunches to Students Who Don’t Need Them

…important to understand what policies exist to help low-income families with children afford food. Wisconsin schools already provide free or reduced-price school meals to children with low incomes through the National…

January 2, 2025

AI Will Have a Major Impact on Labor Markets. Here’s How the US Can Prepare

…will require new types of data-integrated platforms and innovative tools to examine how AI may affect work and skills. A joint AEI-Stanford University-NYU project is proposing a nonpartisan, nonprofit institute similar in…

November 15, 2024

Calibration: Making AI a Partner at Work

…ones who will gain the most from supportive AI tools at work. In 2023, Stanford University economist Erik Brynjolfsson published a study showing the use of AI chatbots for call center workers…

October 30, 2024

A SNAP Reform Framework Focused on the Future

…and caseloads, SNAP still struggles to connect low-income households to employment and improve health and nutrition, all while suffering from many administrative issues. Over the past year, Les Ford and…

October 30, 2024

A Reform Framework for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program

Key Points The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) needs reform to remain an effective safety-net program that decreases food insecurity and supports self-reliance through employment and good health. SNAP policy…

October 8, 2024

Unplanned Obsolescence

…comfortable working around and with it. As the saying goes, in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. Further, as Stanford University labor economist Erik Brynjolfsson has…

September 27, 2024

Food Insecurity Increases Driven by Middle- and High-Income Households

…respondents if they have ever had to skip meals for an entire day because they couldn’t afford food, other questions ask whether the household is able to afford a balanced…

September 11, 2024

Doing Right by Kids: A Book Event

…incentives and how federal policy can encourage work and upward mobility. The final panel tackled education policy from early childhood through higher education. The Thomas B. Fordham Institute’s Chester E….

September 10, 2024

America is Still Working

…use and zoning regulation would help people afford to move to opportunity. Productivity growth—the engine for raising living standards—has been stuck at too-low levels for too long. Shifting government spending…