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October 6, 2023
After a Banner Year for School Choice, the Challenge Is to Ensure New Programs Work
…you’re the chief of EdChoice, one of the nation’s leading voices on school choice. I’m curious to hear what you think the school choice landscape looks like right now? Robert: We…
October 5, 2023
Changing the Official Poverty Measure Would Help Rich States and Hurt Poor States
…unnoticed. Earlier this year, a National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine report recommended elevating the Supplemental Poverty Measure (SPM) to the “nation’s headline poverty statistic,” and noted that the…
October 4, 2023
Variety Is the Spice
…East Side tenements, whose residents relied on public baths. We need not go that far, but lower-cost arrangements create natural affordability: more units on the same real estate. Adams would…
October 2, 2023
Growing Up in Intact Families Matters More Than Ever
…it conveys growing evidence that family structure matters more than ever for today’s children. In analyzing the 1979 and 1997 cohorts of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, the report…
September 29, 2023
Solutions to Reduce Government Improper Payments Involving Unemployment Benefits
Overview The coronavirus pandemic tested the nation’s unemployment benefits system more than any prior recession. Not only did far more individuals file claims for weekly benefits than ever before, but…
September 29, 2023
How Well Is Rural America Doing? You’d Be Surprised
…what used to be coal country. She is a daughter of the national heartland that has suffered the worst effects of deindustrialization. This description might remind some of Hillbilly Elegy, a memoir many…
September 27, 2023
A Conversation with Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) on the Lowering Education Costs and Debt Act
…Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Ranking Member Bill Cassidy (R-LA) and AEI’s Nat Malkus on how the Lowering Education Costs and Debt Act seeks to address higher education…
September 27, 2023
The Good and Bad News About Boys and Men in Utah
Utah is doing exceptionally well on most metrics. The state is booming population-wise, with an almost 7 percent increase in population since 2018. Unemployment remains below the national average and the Beehive State’s economy…
September 26, 2023
Voter Suppression, New York Style
…the idea out of concern about voter fraud. As Hochul sees it, they are continuing a national GOP voter suppression effort “against marginalized communities . . . under the pretense…
September 26, 2023
Former Foster Kids Need More Than Higher Education
…but they don’t really address the heart of the problem. To begin with, nationwide, only about half of youth raised in foster care end up finishing high school. In New York City,…