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October 21, 2024
US Tariffs Will Not Bring Back Jobs from China
…sector. Moreover, this focus on the effects of Chinese imports fails to account for the fact that open trade also increases exports. Studying the 1999-2011 period, economists Robert C. Feenstra,…
October 9, 2024
Learning the Right Lessons from the “China Shock”
…important understanding of the actual content of the studies themselves.) The economists Robert C. Feenstra, Hong Ma, and Yuan Xu attempt to estimate the effects of trade openness on both…
September 20, 2024
Don’t Believe the Doomsayers. The American Dream Is Still In Reach for Young People
…a particular community have for young people growing up there. Robert Doar, president of the American Enterprise Institute, highlighted one of the study’s implications on crafting social welfare policy: “There is a…
September 10, 2024
America is Still Working
…to 2022 are from files offered by the Minnesota Population Center at the University of Minnesota. (See Sarah Flood, Miriam King, Renae Rodgers, Steven Ruggles, J. Robert Warren, Daniel Backman,…
June 20, 2024
The War on Poverty at 60: Lessons to Inform the Future
…to better support low-wage workers. Wendell Primus of the Brookings Institution focused on ways to reduce elderly poverty, including reforms to the Supplemental Security Income program. The Heritage Foundation’s Robert…
January 26, 2024
Please Congress: Make Fiscal Sanity a Priority
…let parents claim eligibility based on current or prior year of earnings. This loosening of income requirements would finance less work by low-income parents according to analysis by AEI scholars. Furthermore, as Heritage’s Robert…
October 27, 2023
What Happened to the American Dream?
…Mills to Robert Bork and Barbara Jordan, whose ideas illuminate the larger transformations Leonhardt describes. The book’s argument belongs to a genre, reconsiderations of neoliberalism, that’s somewhat familiar by now…
September 18, 2023
No Culture Wars, Please, We’re Academics
…versus unmarried mothers, even when the married and unmarried mothers are the same age and have the same levels of education.” From Charles Murray to Robert Putnam, Thomas Sowell to…
May 4, 2023
Work Is Essential to the American Dream
Work is one of the foundations of American life. Almost always, being employed and earning income gives individuals the opportunity, responsibility, and community they need to flourish. The broader importance…
November 13, 2019
Work, Family, and Community
Abstract The contributions to this volume make clear that the social safety net in the United States is large, complex, and robust. In this reflection, we offer insights into the…