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July 18, 2025
The Misunderstood Gains of Modern America
…gains slowed. But that’s hardly the whole story. Since the 1990 business cycle peak, real wages for average workers have risen by about 40 percent, according to economist Michael Strain….
December 5, 2024
More High-Skill Immigration Is Popular. Let’s Act on That
…last summer, whose authors include numerous academics and think tankers, including AEI economist Michael Strain: One obvious policy solution is to stop sending away foreign-born graduates of American colleges and…
August 22, 2023
Is Paid Leave a Pro-Growth Policy?
…of some problem in the market), and benefit some groups at the expense of others. Indeed, as my AEI colleague Michael Strain has written, “Such micromanagement would almost surely result in…
June 15, 2023
Instead of ‘Late Capitalism,’ Maybe the US Economy Is Still in ‘Early Capitalism’
…LC, at least as it applies to the American economy. This is a big one: According to calculations by AEI economist Michael Strain, real median wages grew by 34 percent from 1990…