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December 2, 2025

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”…

September 24, 2025

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….

July 30, 2025

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…

June 20, 2025

What Kids Need—and Adults Need to Know—to Combat the Youth Mental Health Crisis

…30%. If current trends continue, half of Americans will not have a religion by 2070. As scholar Michelle Shain notes, religion is “a powerful predictor of mental health for millennial…

June 16, 2025

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…

June 16, 2025

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…

June 13, 2025

Good Fathers, Flourishing Kids: The Importance of Fatherhood in Virginia

…new report from an intellectually diverse group of scholars at the University of Virginia, the American Enterprise Institute, the American Institute for Boys and Men, the Brookings Institution, the National…

April 25, 2025

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…

April 3, 2025

Trump’s Tariffs Are a Historic Tax Hike

…and egregious assault on our constitutional system of government. In the Constitution, it is Congress’s role to raise revenue, not the president’s. I am an economist, not a constitutional scholar….

March 21, 2025

Increasing Financial Aid Isn’t the Solution to High College Costs

…college student received an annual financial aid package worth $1,700 (in today’s dollars) from sources outside their institution, including the federal government, states, and private scholarships. By 2019-20, however, the…