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June 16, 2025
Accountable for Outcomes: We Need Evidence-Based Funding Models
Key Points With over 1.1 million credentials available but only 12 percent delivering significant wage gains, learners face a chaotic marketplace that lacks effective oversight. Top-decile credentials yield annual wage…
June 16, 2025
The ‘Father Divide’ and What it Means for Our Kids
This Father’s Day, an estimated 72 million greeting cards will zip through the mail, according to Hallmark. Father’s Day ranks a respectable fourth on the list of the highest “card-buying” holidays of the year….
June 12, 2025
The Senate’s Higher Education Reforms Are Strong (But Could Be Stronger)
…incomplete. The accountability system incorporates no measure of prices or student debt burdens—if graduates’ median earnings are one dollar above the benchmark, colleges face no accountability, even if debt burdens…
June 10, 2025
America’s Housing Supply Problem: The Closing of the Suburban Frontier?
…it did from 1980-2000, there would be 15 million more housing units. This paper analyzes the decline of America’s new housing supply, focusing on large sunbelt markets such as Atlanta,…
June 5, 2025
Measuring the Value of Nondegree Credentials
…Opens 5:00 p.m. Opening Remarks: Mark Schneider, Nonresident Senior Fellow, American Enterprise Institute 5:05 p.m. Conversation: Mark Schneider, Nonresident Senior Fellow, American Enterprise Institute Matt Sigelman, President, The Burning Glass…
June 5, 2025
More Evidence of How Housing Regulation Is Bad for Housing
The American Dream’s geographic escape hatch is slamming shut. New research reveals that once-affordable sunbelt cities like Phoenix, Dallas, and Miami now mirror the restrictive housing markets of San Francisco…
June 4, 2025
Congress Is Subsidizing the Wrong Neighborhoods
…has poured in — a reported $89 billion by the end of 2022, over six times the amount invested in the red-tape-heavy New Markets Tax Credit, a smaller federal program established…
May 27, 2025
The Surprising Role of Large Developers in Solving the Housing Crunch
…has been driven by a deliberate shift in strategy by the nation’s largest home builders. Over the past decade, they have reoriented their focus toward the entry-level market. In 2014,…
May 14, 2025
Libraries Are Doing the Work—Let’s Fund Them Accordingly
…Public Libraries (MPL). While MPL has long been known for innovation, this initiative raises the bar. The IIR program connects creative professionals with library users to help them build marketable…
May 13, 2025
Out of Work and On the Dole — Is Uncle Sam Contributing to Young Men’s Malaise?
…develop the skills, ambition, and work ethic that would enable them to thrive in the twenty-first century economy.” Work done by Princeton economist Mark Aguiar and his colleagues indicates that…