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May 23, 2023
An Unexpected Role for AI in the Workplace
…difficult to explain, replicate, and transfer through formal training processes. A recent study by a team including Stanford economist Erik Brynjolfsson suggests that we may resolve Polanyi’s Paradox by opening up a…
May 23, 2023
Biden Courts Another Mortgage Crisis
…least in theory—everyone can afford a mortgage. Some argue that since borrowers would no longer default, we could safely expand credit. To this end, the Federal Housing Finance Agency announced…
May 17, 2023
The Wrong Immigration at the Wrong Time
…impact of immigration enforcement on Black employment in a chicken-processing plant. Following a raid that nabbed three hundred undocumented workers at a neighboring plant, House of Raeford Farms quietly began…
May 12, 2023
Changing Narratives on Family Affordability with Angela Rachidi
…contrary to conventional wisdom, it has not become much more difficult to afford a family on a middle-class income, and that changes in family structure over the past half century…
May 6, 2023
SNAP Needs a Healthy Overhaul
In the coming months, Congress is expected to reauthorize the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), the country’s largest food assistance program that helps poor families afford groceries. Amidst ongoing debt…
May 5, 2023
Wrong Diagnosis, Wrong Prescription
…cheats; that it is wrong to ask whether the government can afford the price tag of programs that would ease poverty; that we could afford to make a dent in…
May 4, 2023
Work Is Essential to the American Dream
…of work can’t be overstated. A larger workforce also contributes significantly to our general prosperity allowing us to afford, among other things, a more effective safety net and better schools….
May 4, 2023
The Social Breakdown: The Poverty of Family, Community, and Religious Life in America
…he was joined by Indiana University’s Leslie Lenkowsky and the Woodson Center’s Robert Woodson—two integral contributors to AEI’s previous research efforts—who discussed the myriad ways that government crowds out civil…
May 3, 2023
The Mainline Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Social Capitalism
…and areas with many mainliners the best. Sociologists have observed these trends in prior work, including our colleague, W. Bradford Wilcox. Wilcox argues that mainline adherents tend to “talk left…
May 2, 2023
In Next Recession, Don’t Let Uncle Sam Be Uncle Sucker Again
…aliens. Yet as full federal funding for EB and other pandemic benefits ended, New York Governor Kathy Hochul said “the state could not afford to extend the benefits on its own and…