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Op-Ed
There Are Many Reasons to Cheer Up About the State of the Middle Class
This piece originally appeared at National Review Online and is reprinted here with permission. Statistics show that the middle class is healthier and more secure than ever before. This week, Michael…
Blog Post
Young Men Aren’t Checked Out. We’ve Closed the Paths That Once Guided Them
…between aspiration and attainment; a quiet but consequential form of social strain. It is tempting to interpret this gap as evidence of disengagement. But consider what the data actually show….
Op-Ed
The Democrats’ Fraud Problem
…benefit. Of course, not everyone in the Democratic Party shares Mamdani’s views or those of other progressives. But the influence of their political strain has only grown during the first…
Article
The End of Work? Not Yet—Maybe Not Ever
…voluntarily. As my AEI colleague Michael Strain, a labor economist, has put it: Do human beings have a deep desire to contribute to the world or not? Are business leaders interested…
Article
Capital Gains Rules on Home Sales and Senior Homeowner Lock In
…addition, unlocking the housing stock could affect labor mobility, potentially enhancing productivity and taxable income. From a cost perspective, optimizing the allocation of housing among households could alleviate strain on…
Op-Ed
Everything You Thought About the US Labor Market Is Wrong
…to restrain an increase in stock prices, prevent GDP growth from accelerating, or induce a worrying increase in the unemployment rate. Despite this, the Fed cut its policy rate at…
Journal Publication
The Heterogeneous Effects of Large and Small Minimum Wage Changes on Hours Worked: Evidence Using a Partially Pre-Committed Analysis Plan
…as Clemens and Strain’s (forthcoming) analysis of employment, we can directly compare the resulting employment and hours elasticities. We find that these elasticities were very similar in our empirical context….
Op-Ed
AI in K–12: A New Year Reality Check for School Leaders
…reached out to Michael for a reality check. Here’s what he had to say. —Rick Rick: Michael, educators have heard a lot about what AI means for schools over the past few years….
Op-Ed
AI Changes NOTHING About What Students Need to Learn
…like in 2046 (when today’s 4th graders turn 30). Ultimately, the assertion that AI makes knowledge less valuable is more talking point than truism. As Ohio State’s Michael Clune aptly observed recently…
Blog Post
AI Has Come for K–12 Education
…the excited side, Michael Horn argues that the workforce of tomorrow is incorporating AI today, so schools need to familiarize students with the technology. If AI at work is inescapable, worriers like…
Blog Post
Apocalypse Not
Now we’re getting somewhere! Thanks to the person who posts on X.com using @MTSInsights, I know where Michael Green got his inflated cost estimates, which I critiqued in my last post. (Green, you…
Blog Post
The Real Math of Survival?
Earlier today (much earlier…) I posted a critique of the new viral post by Michael W. Green claiming that families with less than $140,000 in income should be considered to be in poverty. That…