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February 5, 2024
Why We All Rely On the Organized Kindness of Strangers
…to their communities. . “The average American doesn’t realize all the things that churches do to make society less awful,” pastor and political scientist Ryan Burge, a professor at Eastern…
September 19, 2023
House Budget Plan Proposes Commonsense Welfare Changes
…Rachidi and former House Speaker Paul Ryan, was released last fall. A chapter in that volume authored by Rachidi, Scott Winship, and one of us (Matt Weidinger), titled “A Safety Net for the Future: Overcoming the…
September 13, 2023
American Dreamers
…head of domestic policy, Ryan Streeter, discussed his research on supporting economic dynamism across the country. Other AEI presentations focused on how people, technology, and skills are reshaping workforce development, sharing…
August 1, 2023
How the Middle Class Is Faring: My Long-Read Q&A with Jeremy Horpedahl
…that’s something that psychologists have identified. Economists have picked up on that Bryan Caplan in his book uses that as one of the biases that might drive people’s political decision-making….
May 26, 2023
The Power of the Success Sequence
…of wedlock and if they take responsibility for that child—even if they don’t—that’s going to generally impair their progress.” Similarly, Bryan Caplan commented that the causation between the success sequence…
May 4, 2023
The Social Breakdown: The Poverty of Family, Community, and Religious Life in America
On May 4, AEI’s Center on Opportunity and Social Mobility (COSM) hosted the launch of “The Social Breakdown,” a new research series dedicated to the study of social capital. https://www.youtube.com/embed/SWmPhcul8NE…
January 7, 2023
Personal Responsibility, Not Victimhood, Is the Path to Success
…As the economist Bryan Caplan commented, the causation between the success sequence and poverty is obvious: “‘Dropping out, idleness, and single parenthood make you poor’ is on par with ‘burning money…
November 17, 2022
American Renewal: Launching a New Conservative Policy Book with Paul Ryan and Angela Rachidi
…Panel Ross Douthat, Nonresident Fellow, AEI Kay Coles James, Secretary of the Commonwealth, Virginia Maya MacGuineas, President, Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget Moderator: Ryan Streeter, Director of Domestic Policy,…
January 3, 2022
Dynamism as a Public Philosophy
…society can grow again — block by block, from the ground up, with eyes on the future. Ryan Streeter is the director of domestic-policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute….
October 20, 2021
Public Places and Commercial Spaces: How Neighborhood Amenities Foster Trust and Connection in American Communities
Key Points The COVID-19 pandemic has shifted many Americans’ living preferences toward less dense places. For instance, more Americans would prefer to live in small towns and rural areas than…