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July 6, 2023
The End of Affirmative Action Calls for a Renewed Conservatism of Opportunity
…not of their own making. Because children from groups underrepresented among the elite are decidedly overrepresented among the disadvantaged, an effective policy agenda around upward mobility would stand to benefit…
July 3, 2023
Child Welfare’s Ideological Enforcer
…published.” In other words, it’s no longer acceptable for academic journals to publish anything questioning the current orthodoxy in child welfare. This stance has taken hold in other fields, too,…
June 30, 2023
House Republican Plan Penalizes Marriage
…child-rearing years, the Tax Cuts for Working Families Act would simply increase the standard deduction for all households — $2,000 for singles, $3,000 for heads of household, and $4,000 for…
June 30, 2023
The U.S. Could Learn a Lot from This School in the U.K.
…for affordable private schools to sprout and take root in this country. If there’s ever going to be a serious challenge to the standard American paradigm of schooling with the…
June 28, 2023
Is ‘Bidenomics’ Even a Thing, Really?
…standards—or is something else? To govern is to choose. To govern wisely is to acknowledge the existence of trade-offs and opportunity costs. For example: Regulations that preserve coastal views for luxury homeowners…
June 26, 2023
Why There Are So Few Black Kids at Stuyvesant: Private Schools and Charter Schools Pull Top Students Out of the System
…the number of high-performing Black students in charter and Catholic schools, it leaves very few able to meet the academic standards to gain admissions to the specialized public high schools….
June 23, 2023
SNAP Can Improve Nutrition, Help Farmers, and Support the Environment
…federal government’s National School Lunch Program (NSLP)—serving over 30 million children per school day—already sets nutrition standards for what schools can serve as part of the program. Reforms in 2012 required participating schools to…
June 22, 2023
System Error: Where Big Tech Went Wrong and How We Can Reboot
Event Summary On June 22, AEI’s Brent Orrell and Shane Tews were joined by Rob Reich of the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence and Jeremy M. Weinstein of the…
June 22, 2023
The Cost of Thriving Has Fallen: Correcting and Rejecting the American Compass Cost-of-Thriving Index
…group fell by 7.5 weeks. These improvements aside, we reject the COTI approach as inadequate for assessing changes in living standards. While Cass’s estimates imply that male earnings have fallen…
June 21, 2023
The Bad Math Behind Economic Doomerism
…unattainable standard of living for sole breadwinner families after three-and-a-half decades of costs outpacing income—come from Cass’ report from earlier this year, “The 2023 Cost-of-Thriving Index.” Indeed, Cass argues more broadly that…