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May 23, 2023
Biden Courts Another Mortgage Crisis
…to the 2008 financial crisis. Remember when in 1994 Fannie Mae committed to “transforming the nation’s housing finance system to make it accessible to everyone”? To quote Yogi Berra, “It’s like déjà…
May 4, 2023
Work Is Essential to the American Dream
…leaders nationwide. The American Dream Initiative includes: AEI’s new Center on Opportunity and Social Mobility, led by AEI scholars Scott Winship and Kevin Corinth. This center will serve as a hub of…
February 22, 2023
Unlocking the Future
…day: devastating learning loss among the nation’s K-12 students. Parents are angry, voting for change and telling pollsters they want more control over their children’s schools. But on education, as…
December 9, 2022
“Automatic Stimulus”: How It Would Have Increased the Record Unemployment Benefits Paid During the Great Recession and Pandemic
…payments whenever state or national unemployment rates are above specific thresholds. Examining a key “automatic stimulus” proposal reveals it would have greatly expanded the amount and duration of unemployment benefits…
November 28, 2022
Public School Instructional Offerings and Enrollment Changes: Evidence from Two Years After the Pandemic
Key Points Enrollment numbers in the first two pandemic school years demonstrate that district instructional offerings influence families’ enrollment decisions and that these effects were more pronounced in the second…
September 21, 2022
Lessons from the Unprecedented Fraud and Abuse of the Unemployment Benefits System During the Pandemic
…served on the staff of the House Committee on Ways and Means, including for 15 years as the staff director of its subcommittee with jurisdiction over the nation’s unemployment benefits…
August 30, 2022
Biden’s Student Loan Debt Plan is Driven by Politics, Not Economics
…will need in the coming election cycles to maintain any power in national politics. The fairness and the naked political ambition behind the plan are reason enough to object to…
August 10, 2022
A Failure to Respond: Public School Mask Mandates in the 2021–22 School Year
Key Points From September 2021 to late February 2022, school district mask mandates were in place for 61 percent of students in the US.During that period, Centers for Disease Control…
June 15, 2022
Second Time’s the Charm?
…both pro-family policy and the sustained reduction of poverty, but the nature of Romney’s approach forced hard choices and brought some differing assumptions to the surface. At the time, the…
February 23, 2022
The Case Against Universal Free Lunch
…breakfast and lunch. That struck me as natural and beautiful. Parents have a primal drive to provide food for their children. But parents are also sensitive and responsive to the…