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April 24, 2025
In Opposing Last Month’s Continuing Resolution, Nearly All Democrats Voted to Shut Down Welfare Checks, Too
…tax bills, added to unrelated legislation, or passed as stand-alone legislation.” Since it was created in 1996, TANF has been extended on a long-term basis only once, in legislation covering fiscal years…
April 24, 2025
Not Local Enough: The Montgomery County Public Schools Case
…books on LGBT themes. The case appears, on the surface, to reverse long-standing views of the role of local government. Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, defended…
April 17, 2025
Turn Public Service Loan Forgiveness into a State Block Grant
…more often about protecting professionals in the field from competition than truly improving standards. While proponents argue that PSLF encourages graduates to choose careers in public service, the incentives are more complex….
April 15, 2025
Utah Hands Parents the Keys to the App Store
…trusted turned out to be little more than window dressing. Stories like this are heartbreaking, and all too common. As parents and policymakers, we can’t stand by while a digital…
April 9, 2025
Trump’s Tariff Formula Is Still Wrong. Maybe That’s Why No One Will Admit They Created It.
Last Friday, we showed that the Trump Administration’s tariff formula contained an error that made its calculated tariffs up to four times too large. The entire premise of the administration’s…
April 8, 2025
Discussing President Trump’s tariff formula miscalculation: Corinth on CNN News Central
Kevin Corinth, Deputy Director of the Center on Opportunity and Social Mobility, discusses President Trump’s tariff formula alongside AEI’s Stan Veuger on CNN News Central….
April 4, 2025
President Trump’s Tariff Formula Makes No Economic Sense. It’s Also Based on an Error.
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March 31, 2025
Reimagining Federal Education R&D: DARPA for Education
…one person left in NCER, there simply won’t be anybody with the right experiences and standing to improve EDU. What happens next to NCER is unclear. If we assume that…
March 31, 2025
Tom Cotton Should Go Further: An Endowment Tax Should Not Exclude Big Foundations
…Even more important, by raising taxes on foundations, Congress can help pay for a change in the tax law to restore an incentive for individual taxpayers to make charitable contributions. As it stands,…
March 28, 2025
Cracking the Code Behind Dismal 8th Grade Reading Scores
…curriculum and standards hints at a serious problem: There is no immediate or obvious solution at hand to address the problem. Nor is it simply a lack of appropriate curriculum…