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September 3, 2024

Doing Right by Kids: A Book Event

…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 diagnose problems of unequal opportunity…

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…

March 6, 2024

College or Trade School? How About Both?

…visiting scholar at the University of Virginia’s School of Education and Human Development, puts adaptability front and center in his recent book The Career Arts. In doing so, he helps to fight back against…

January 26, 2024

Please Congress: Make Fiscal Sanity a Priority

…let parents claim eligibility based on current or prior year of earnings. This loosening of income requirements would finance less work by low-income parents according to analysis by AEI scholars. Furthermore, as Heritage’s Robert…

November 27, 2023

For kids, marriage still matters

The science could not be clearer: On average, the children of married parents are more likely to experience happier, healthier and more successful lives. Brookings Institution scholar Melissa Kearney powerfully…

September 29, 2023

How Well Is Rural America Doing? You’d Be Surprised

…found exploitative of the suffering and despair of poor whites principally as a way to generate capital for the author’s other interests. But fear not: Currid-Halkett is a serious scholar with genuine…

September 13, 2023

American Dreamers

…economic progress for generations to come. Through ADI, AEI scholars are investing time and energy in policy analysis and development to expand access to the American dream for individuals, families…

May 4, 2023

Work Is Essential to the American Dream

…the best scholarship that can help them implement AEI scholars’ work in their communities. Please visit www.americandream.is to learn more about the work AEI scholars are producing as part of this project….

June 15, 2022

Second Time’s the Charm?

…need to look different as a result. The debate over this question (including an actual friendly debate among scholars at the American Enterprise Institute, where both authors of this piece work) helped…