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June 13, 2025
Good Fathers, Flourishing Kids: The Importance of Fatherhood in Virginia
…National Center for Black Family Life at Hampton University, the Institute for Family Studies, and the National Marriage Project. Read the full report here. UVA – Good Fathers, Flourishing Kids ReportDownload…
June 12, 2025
Lingering Absence in Public Schools: Tracking Post-Pandemic Chronic Absenteeism into 2024
Key Points Chronic absenteeism spiked during the pandemic and remains a serious problem. In 2024, rates were 57 percent higher than they were pre-pandemic and only 2 percentage points lower…
June 10, 2025
America’s Housing Supply Problem: The Closing of the Suburban Frontier?
Housing prices across much of America have hit historic highs, while less housing is being built. If the U.S. housing stock had expanded at the same rate from 2000-2020 as…
June 5, 2025
More Evidence of How Housing Regulation Is Bad for Housing
…expensive quirk. Now they’ve gone viral, spreading to previously responsive markets nationwide. The stakes couldn’t be higher: Either America rediscovers how to build, or it accepts managed economic decline disguised…
June 5, 2025
The One Thing Both Parties Agree On: More Deficits and Debt
The House of Representatives recently passed by a single vote Republicans’ “One Big Beautiful Bill” that reflects President Donald Trump’s tax and spending agenda, and GOP senators are now working to put their…
June 4, 2025
Congress Is Subsidizing the Wrong Neighborhoods
…who championed the provision, explained that he was motivated by his belief that “there’s untapped potential in every state in the nation.” The problem? Opportunity zones were meant to be…
May 29, 2025
How Non-disabled Medicaid Recipients Without Children Spend Their Time
…work or caring for family members? I answer these questions using the American Time Use Survey (ATUS), a nationally representative survey used extensively in government and academic research, which provides…
May 27, 2025
The Surprising Role of Large Developers in Solving the Housing Crunch
Against the odds—and conventional wisdom—the nation’s largest home builders have engineered a dramatic shift toward serving first-time homebuyers (FTBs). New data from the AEI Housing Center show that in 2024,…
May 19, 2025
The Case for Shifting More Welfare Costs to States
…hit state budgets hard at a time when state finances are already highly strained.” That view ignores the findings of a recent fiscal survey of states conducted by the National…
May 18, 2025
Saved by Medicaid: New Evidence on Health Insurance and Mortality from the Universe of Low-Income Adults
Abstract We examine the causal effect of health insurance on mortality using the universe of low-income adults, a dataset of 37 million individuals identified by linking the 2010 Census to…