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February 20, 2025
The American Dream Is Not a Coin Flip, and Wages Have Not Stagnated
…Hell, Robert Manduca, Jimmy Narang, “The Fading American Dream: Trends in Absolute Income Mobility Since 1940.” Replication files available at https://opportunityinsights.org/data/?geographic_level=0&topic=0&paper_id=546#resource-listing. MACPI is from Scott Winship, “Introducing the More Accurate Consumer…
February 4, 2025
Snip, Snip: Spending Cuts Are Coming
…foreseeable future. Just the interest on the debt totals almost $1 trillion per year, exceeding the cost of national defense. For Republicans, the underlying problem is simple: As Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent described in his…
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…
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…