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February 18, 2025

Family-Friendly Policies for the 119th Congress

…plenty of policies to make America more family friendly. In this compilation, various AEI scholars offer a small sampling of such policies. AEI, of course, does not take institutional positions,…

January 14, 2025

The Pornography Industry Should Not Be Allowed This Much Access to Our Children

…our children affected by this tidal wave of pornography? As scholars from the Institute for Family Studies, the Wheatley Institute at Brigham Young University, and the University of Virginia, we…

January 10, 2025

Marriage: America’s Keystone Institution

…than ever for the well-being of children and adults, at least on some outcomes. Scholars, journalists, professionals, and policymakers should not only take note of marriage’s rising value, but they…

December 13, 2024

Economics & Data-Driven Inquiry

At the behest of New College Florida and the Global Freedom Initiative, AEI scholar Kevin Corinth joined a distinguished group of scholars and practitioners for the Symposium on Ideological Capture…

November 21, 2024

A Consensus on Common-Sense Education Reform

…isn’t what Americans should want or expect. Specifically, the scholars agree that the American education system requires significant reform, particularly in K-12, with persistent performance gaps across socioeconomic and racial…

October 18, 2024

Pro-Marriage Conservatives Should Reject a Per-Child Phase-In of the Child Tax Credit

Earlier this week, scholars from the Ethics and Public Policy Center, the Niskanen Center, and other right-of-center organizations issued a memo calling for pro-family tax reforms during the upcoming debate over the…

October 17, 2024

Harris’ Tax Plans Would Reduce Long-Term Prosperity. Trump’s Proposals Might Be Even Worse.

AEI Scholar and Director of Economic Policy Studies Michael R. Strain contributed to the Dispatch’s Symposium titled Economic Policy Experts: Doom, Thy Name Is Populism, as a group of experts outlined…

October 8, 2024

House Committee on Ways and Means Hearing on Misuse of TANF Funds

…a Rowe Scholar in Poverty Studies at the American Enterprise Institute. Previously I served for over two decades on the staff of the House Ways and Means Committee, including as…

September 20, 2024

How Public Housing Fueled Boston’s Busing Riots

…gangsters, but, per a Boston College scholarly history, “alongside its churches, dozens of Irish social and charitable organizations flourished in Southie, including eleven chapters of the Ancient Order of Hibernians.” For all…

September 11, 2024

Doing Right by Kids: A Book Event

…in the past to become the most disadvantaged adults when they grow up. In a new edited volume, Doing Right Kids: Leveraging Social Capital and Innovation to Increase Opportunity, leading scholars…