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November 21, 2024

A Consensus on Common-Sense Education Reform

…isn’t what Americans should want or expect. Specifically, the scholars agree that the American education system requires significant reform, particularly in K-12, with persistent performance gaps across socioeconomic and racial…

October 18, 2024

Pro-Marriage Conservatives Should Reject a Per-Child Phase-In of the Child Tax Credit

Earlier this week, scholars from the Ethics and Public Policy Center, the Niskanen Center, and other right-of-center organizations issued a memo calling for pro-family tax reforms during the upcoming debate over the…

October 17, 2024

Harris’ Tax Plans Would Reduce Long-Term Prosperity. Trump’s Proposals Might Be Even Worse.

AEI Scholar and Director of Economic Policy Studies Michael R. Strain contributed to the Dispatch’s Symposium titled Economic Policy Experts: Doom, Thy Name Is Populism, as a group of experts outlined…

October 8, 2024

House Committee on Ways and Means Hearing on Misuse of TANF Funds

…a Rowe Scholar in Poverty Studies at the American Enterprise Institute. Previously I served for over two decades on the staff of the House Ways and Means Committee, including as…

September 20, 2024

How Public Housing Fueled Boston’s Busing Riots

…gangsters, but, per a Boston College scholarly history, “alongside its churches, dozens of Irish social and charitable organizations flourished in Southie, including eleven chapters of the Ancient Order of Hibernians.” For all…

September 11, 2024

Doing Right by Kids: A Book Event

…in the past to become the most disadvantaged adults when they grow up. In a new edited volume, Doing Right Kids: Leveraging Social Capital and Innovation to Increase Opportunity, leading scholars…

August 6, 2024

Trump’s Tax Law Diminished Incentives for Charitable Giving, But We Can Fix It

…do what government cannot. Such giving is the lifeblood of civil society, of organizations that bind communities together, whether through local park conservancies or school scholarship programs, or the kinds…

June 23, 2024

Is Systemic Racism Responsible for the Increase in Child Mortality Rates?

…injury-related fatalities have been growing. And new research from scholars at Virginia Commonwealth University finds that those deaths have been rising faster for young people who are Black or Native…

June 20, 2024

The War on Poverty at 60: Lessons to Inform the Future

…Fellow, Center for Health and Welfare Policy, Heritage Foundation Isabel V. Sawhill, Senior Fellow Emeritus, Center for Economic Security and Opportunity, Brookings Institution Moderator: Matt Weidinger, Rowe Scholar, American Enterprise…

June 18, 2024

Answering Key Questions About Unemployment Insurance Reforms

…system to better support American workers, businesses, and taxpayers. My name is Matt Weidinger, and I am a Rowe Scholar in poverty studies at the American Enterprise Institute. Previously, I…