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November 7, 2024

Introducing the “More Accurate Consumer Price Index”

Abstract Particularly since the 1990s, federal statistical agencies have worked to improve the ability of various price indexes to measure changes in the cost of living. However, in recent years,…

October 2, 2024

The effect of taxes and transfers on low-earning workers’ income.

Despite misperceptions that the United States is limping through late-stage capitalism, American workers are more highly compensated than ever before—even the lowest earners. The 20th percentile earner—worse-off than 80 percent…

September 17, 2024

The Future of Work

Since Generation Z has begun entering the workforce, debates swirl around whether young Americans are working too much or not enough. Following Scott Winship’s article in Fusion, Young Voices and…

September 11, 2024

Doing Right by Kids: A Book Event

Event Summary On September 11, AEI’s Scott Winship gathered distinguished experts to launch the new edited volume Doing Right by Kids: Leveraging Social Capital and Innovation to Increase Opportunity, a call…

September 10, 2024

America is Still Working

…of People with Disabilities (Washington, DC: AEI Press, 2011). [37] Scott Winship, “How to Fix Disability Insurance,” National Affairs, 2015, https://www.nationalaffairs.com/publications/detail/how-to-fix-disability-insurance. Scott Winship, “Declining Prime-Age Male Labor Force Participation: Why…

September 10, 2024

Event: New Census Data on American Families’ Economic Well-Being

…in poverty when it comes to educational levels. And AEI’s Scott Winship examined the evidence behind the consistent decline in consumption poverty. The panel also discussed predictions for 2024 and…

August 5, 2024

Are Opportunity Zones an Effective Place-Based Policy?

…of the bill were being drafted and debated. It was only when Senator Tim Scott (R-South Carolina) pushed for their inclusion, along with Congressional leaders and later President Trump, that…

July 26, 2024

Two Cheers for Shrinking Black-White Opportunity Gaps

The latest in a series of important reports on social mobility by the research group Opportunity Insights is out, and it’s another conversation-changer. Across a variety of outcomes in adulthood…

June 18, 2024

Economic Opportunity and Social Mobility

Years ago, I worked at the Pew Charitable Trusts on something called the Economic Mobility Project. In 2009, we commissioned a survey covering opportunity, mobility, and the American Dream. One…

May 20, 2024

Indivar Dutta-Gupta and Scott Winship on the 60th Anniversary of LBJ’s “War on Poverty” on C-SPAN’s “Washington Journal”

Indivar Dutta-Gupta and Scott Winship talked about the 60th anniversary of President Lyndon B. Johnson’s “Great Society” speech and the war on poverty….