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Op-Ed
Missing Boy Jacob Pritchett Is a Reminder of Why We Can’t Leave Disabled Kids with Ill-Equipped Parents
…had a child, that she is barren and, also, that she is Jesus Christ. Police found blood in the apartment and on a mattress outside. Jacob’s mother has his name…
Commentary
The More Things Change, Medicaid Edition
…take the matter into their own hands by ordering a staff investigation. Their findings were shocking. As summarized in a story that ran in the New York Times, the investigators…
Op-ed
Compiling My Work on Work Incentives
…a Material Matter,” Education Next (July 6, 2021) https://www.aei.org/articles/deprivation-is-not-simply-a-material-matter/ “Reforming Tax Credits to Promote Child Opportunity and Aid Working Families,” American Enterprise Institute (July 29, 2021) https://www.aei.org/research-products/report/reforming-tax-credits-to-promote-child-opportunity-and-aid-working-families/ “New Evidence on the Benefits…
Commentary
Opportunity Book: A New Tool for Connecting Policymakers with Innovative Ideas
…the policy solution. Further information including supporting research and other relevant materials is always provided, as is the identity of the scholar who authored the idea. Opportunity Book is a…
Commentary
Assessing Duplicative Federal Benefit Programs and Preventing Abuse
…program, see Matt Weidinger, “Why Even Permanent Benefit Expansions Are Never Enough,” AEIdeas, September 27, 2022, https://www.aei.org/opportunity-social-mobility/why-even-permanent-benefit-expansions-are-never-enough/. [7] Matt Weidinger, “Automatic Stimulus”: How It Would Have Increased the Record Unemployment Benefits, American Enterprise Institute,…
Op-Ed
Congress Gave Families a Raise. Now Let Parents Decide How to Use It.
…for an infant now exceeds the cost of in-state college tuition in most states. And decades of research confirm a truth parents have long known: a child’s earliest years matter most for…
Commentary
Summary and Analysis of the “Stop Unemployment Fraud Act”
…paid, and high-risk identities should be made to complete additional verification steps. Section 3. Preventing Unemployment Compensation Fraud Through Data Matching Summary: This section requires states to certify they use…
Blog Post
Tariffs Cannot Fully Replace the Income Tax
…The observation that tariffs cannot replace the income tax is not new. Several experts have made the same point. The math is straightforward: We cannot replace the income tax with tariffs….
Commentary
Young Men’s Earnings over the Long Run – An Update
…inaccurately negative as an empirical matter. Fully 70 to 75 percent of Americans near the age of 40 believe that they have higher real income than their parents did at…
Blog Post
States Are Taking the Reins on College Accountability
…approach is necessarily the final blueprint. That is precisely why they matter. For two decades, policymakers have been moving toward outcomes-based accountability. The 2006 Spellings Commission elevated performance and transparency as national…
Op-Ed
On the Federal Deficit, Picking the Low-Hanging Fruit Won’t Be Enough
…in only one corner of the federal budget. But that can’t obscure the bigger picture, which shows how little else matters until Americans and the politicians they elect get serious…
Article
Capital Gains Rules on Home Sales and Senior Homeowner Lock In
…demand are better matched. Implementing this initiative would have a minimal cost in lost tax revenue, as most of the tax gains on these homes would be eliminated upon the…