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September 12, 2023
Measuring Poverty: The New Census Estimates and the Future of Poverty Measurement
…New Census Income and Poverty Estimates for 2022 Panelists: Angela Rachidi, Rowe Scholar, AEI Matt Weidinger, Rowe Scholar, AEI Scott Winship, Director, Center on Opportunity and Social Mobility, AEI Moderator:…
September 12, 2023
Please, Gen Z Aren’t “Doomed to be the First Generation of Americans Who Will Grow Up with a Lower Standard of Living Than Their Parents”
…the 19th-century British historian and politician, Thomas Babington Macaulay: “On what principle is it that with nothing but improvement behind us, we are to expect nothing but deterioration before us?”…
September 12, 2023
Housing Finance Watch (Week 35 & 36, 2023)
PDF to full report Key takeaways: The median purchase rate rose 1/8 ppts. over the past week to 7 1/8%. Mortgage News Daily reported a daily avg. 30-year rate of…
September 1, 2023
Despite Staggering Improper Payments, New Labor Department Report Calls for Reviving Pandemic Unemployment Assistance
…massive numbers. In May 2020, the Secret Service issued an alert about “large-scale fraud” targeting multiple states. Washington officials reported “a Nigerian fraud ring” made off with hundreds of millions of dollars. Maine joined…
August 29, 2023
Skate Parks: Appreciating Another Third Place
…irrelevant . . . [and are] egalitarian and inclusive.” Girls and women, like my daughter, are a significantly growing proportion of the community. The marketplace clearly wants spaces and parks for…
August 21, 2023
Four Shocking Truths about the American Economy! (Well, Shocking to Some.)
…to be contrarian just for the sake of being contrarian, I take a starkly different view on all of those issues. Time for some myth busting, Faster, Please! style! “The link between…
August 17, 2023
The ‘Utah Family Miracle’ and Why It Matters
…economic mobility, child poverty and median family income than are the education level, racial makeup and age composition of its population.” Likewise, Harvard economist Raj Chetty and his colleagues found…
August 14, 2023
Keep the Utah Family Miracle Going Strong
…typically a stronger predictor of the state’s economic mobility, child poverty, and median family income than are the education level, racial makeup, and age composition of its population.” Likewise, Harvard…
August 12, 2023
Why Ending Child Services Is the New Defund the Police
…lectured public servants about why it should be eradicated. There are few people, including this author, who would argue that the child welfare system doesn’t need reform. But the utopian…
August 10, 2023
The Rowe Show
On today’s Remnant—which happens to be more than a year in the making—Jonah’s joined for the first time by Ian Rowe, a senior fellow at AEI and the author of…