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June 27, 2023
House Republican Plan Penalizes Marriage
…than 50 percent national caseload decline following the 1996 reforms, meant that within a few years the average state had effectively no work requirement. So lawmakers included a simple update to the caseload reduction credit in the 2006 Deficit…
June 26, 2023
Why There Are So Few Black Kids at Stuyvesant: Private Schools and Charter Schools Pull Top Students Out of the System
…schools, the charter school system, and Catholic schools. One way to judge the share of sufficiently-skilled Black students is to look at eighth-grade skill evaluations in the Nation’s Report Card….
June 24, 2023
City Can No Longer Afford Life-Long Subsidies for Lucky NYCHA Tenants
If the definition of insanity involves doing the same thing repeatedly and hoping for a different result, maybe the long-troubled New York City Housing Authority, the nation’s largest, isn’t entirely…
June 23, 2023
SNAP Can Improve Nutrition, Help Farmers, and Support the Environment
…country’s natural resources and our nation’s traditional farmers in ways that we are only recently becoming aware of. To reverse these trends, we must create a food system that encourages…
June 21, 2023
The Bad Math Behind Economic Doomerism
…to reality. The doomerist basis of national conservatism is empirically unfounded, and therefore so are many of the policy priorities it has borrowed from liberal doomers, such as protectionism and…
June 20, 2023
Down Through the Ages
…but only lower-income whites actually became less happy. “A nation in which one social class is increasingly unhappy while another is content is a nation divided,” writes Twenge. From an…
June 16, 2023
Marriage Is Still the Best Way to Bond a Father to His Children
Editor’s Note: The following essay is an edited transcript of AEI senior fellow Ian Rowe’s opening remarks at “A Debate on Fatherhood,” hosted by the National Marriage Project at UVA and the American Enterprise…
June 16, 2023
The Missing Context Behind “Cuts” in Fast-Growing Welfare Programs
…right, that means there will continue to be millions more collecting food stamps and Medicaid in the coming years than the number it projected before the pandemic. If the nation’s…
June 15, 2023
Our Children Need to Be Involved in Religious Institutions
…sense of community and connectedness. This is critical as a loneliness epidemic is hitting the nation, resulting in millions of Americans feeling “isolated, invisible, and insignificant,” which directly harms “individual…
June 14, 2023
Housing in America: A Profectus Roundtable
…the past but equivalent to what subsidized tenants pay. Overall, Americans spend 28.5 percent of income on housing. These are reasonable figures. The goal of the National Housing Act of…