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November 5, 2024
Harvard Professor Edward Glaeser on the U.S. Housing Crisis
Why are U.S. housing prices so high? Edward L. Glaeser, the Fred and Eleanor Glimp Professor of Economics at Harvard University, is an expert in housing and urban economics. His work highlights the relationship between housing supply, urban growth, and economic prosperity, offering insights for policymakers to create more sustainable and equitable urban environments through…
October 16, 2024
Kevin Corinth: Addressing Social Capital Poverty in America
Despite improvements in material living standards, the erosion of social connections, civic engagement, and community ties has led to a decline in overall social wellbeing. New research reveals a complex relationship between economic and social factors, highlighting the need for a more comprehensive approach to addressing societal challenges. As policymakers and communities grapple with these…
October 7, 2024
Why Middle Class Wages Aren’t Growing
Senior Fellow Kevin Corinth discusses factors hindering wage growth for the middle class.
September 17, 2024
The Future of Work
Since Generation Z has begun entering the workforce, debates swirl around whether young Americans are working too much or not enough. Following Scott Winship’s article in Fusion, Young Voices and Fusion Magazine will host a discussion Tuesday, September 17th to tease out the nuances and future possibilities of what work could—or should—look like for young…
May 20, 2024
Indivar Dutta-Gupta and Scott Winship on the 60th Anniversary of LBJ’s “War on Poverty” on C-SPAN’s “Washington Journal”
Indivar Dutta-Gupta and Scott Winship talked about the 60th anniversary of President Lyndon B. Johnson’s “Great Society” speech and the war on poverty.
February 14, 2024
Debate: The Future of Family Policy
A new bill is making its way through Congress, aiming to expand the existing Child Tax Credit (CTC) policy. As part of a Dispatch debate series, associate editor Luis Parrales moderates a debate between Kevin Corinth of the American Enterprise Institute and Patrick T. Brown of the Ethics and Public Policy Center on the merits of the proposal. What are the tradeoffs of a work requirement? Should…
January 5, 2023
Defending the American Dream with Michael Strain
Our interview this week is with the American Enterprise Institute’s Michael Strain. Michael is the author of The American Dream Is Not Dead: (But Populism Could Kill It), and we talk about how real blue-collar wages in America have not been stagnant for decades, despite what you might have heard.