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Compiling My Work on Work Incentives
…support enforcement, child tax credit, early childhood education, earned income tax credit, and higher education. Opportunity Book is a searchable database of federal policies from COSM scholars and affiliates to…
Commentary
Opportunity Book: A New Tool for Connecting Policymakers with Innovative Ideas
…federal policy ideas. Opportunity Book is a publicly available database that launches with 38 individual policies related to opportunity from 13 AEI scholars. The initial policies relate to child support…
Op-Ed
AI Changes NOTHING About What Students Need to Learn
…has yielded similar exhortations, the calls took on newfound fervor in the digital age. Back in 1989, former Assistant Secretary of Labor Arnold Packer, a Johns Hopkins scholar and co-author…
Commentary
What To Do About Benefit Cliffs?
…Scholars and senior fellows in poverty and opportunity studies at the American Enterprise Institute. Authors of the report “Stranded by the Safety Net: How to Fix the Benefit Cliff Problem”…
Op-Ed
What Could the New Federal Tuition Tax Credit Mean for School Choice?
…program actually launches in 2027. What kinds of scholarships can programs give? What expenses will scholarships be permitted to cover? Which states will opt in? How many students will be…
Op-Ed
How Can Education Savings Accounts Serve Students with Special Needs?
…the ESA worth in Arizona, and is that enough to support a child with special needs? Karla: In Arizona, 65 percent of ESA scholarships are between $7,000 and $8,000. But students with…
Op-Ed
Subsidized Housing and Upward Mobility
In 1983, Harvard scholars Mary Jo Bane and David Ellwood sought to determine the length of time participants in Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) spent in the program….
Op-Ed
The New Era for Nonprofits: America’s Old System of Federally Funded Nonprofits is Gone. What Comes Next?
…Democrats who favored the federal government’s growing reliance on nonprofits to deliver its domestic policies and programs. In 1977, conservative scholars at the American Enterprise Institute published a report titled To…
Article
Is Marriage Back? Divorce Is Down, Family Stability Is Up
…marriages [ending] in divorce.” A 2009 survey of contemporary family life authored by family scholars Elizabeth Peters and Claire Kamp Dush held that “Family forms are becoming increasingly diverse.” And in 2010, a Pew Research Center…
Op-Ed
Better Boys: The Difference Good Dads Make
…boys from academic failure, as well as trouble in and outside of school. To remedy this, we convened an ideologically diverse group of scholars to research the state of fatherhood…
Op-Ed
The ‘Father Divide’ and What it Means for Our Kids
…The Importance of Fatherhood in Virginia” was released this week from a diverse group of researchers, including scholars from the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia, the National…
Op-Ed
What’s holding women back from starting a family?
…rates of depression, and higher rates of personal meaning and satisfaction (despite also reporting higher stress levels), according to family scholars Wendy Wang and Yifeng Wan, who presented their recent…