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Learning by Doing: AI, Knowledge Transfer, and the Future of Skills
…opposed to physical, automation. AI-driven automation is part of the pathway to a more prosperous economy and society for ourselves and for future generations. As my AEI colleague Jim Pethokoukis recently…
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AI’s Uncertain Cost Effects in Health Care
The health care industry has a long history of below-average productivity gains, but there is cautious optimism that artificial intelligence (AI) will break the pattern. As in the past, the industry’s…
Op-Ed
A Hidden Explanation for the Wealth Gap on Racial Lines That Emerges in the Push to Promote Public Housing
…Detroit that would be named for Frederick Douglass. To clear the way for this and many similar projects named for important black historical figures such as Ida B. Wells, James…
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AI Is Having Job Effects. And That’s Ok
My fellow pro-growth/progress/abundance Up Wingers, I’ve got something for everyone today. If you’re an AI optimist, this essay shows generative AI is having real-world impacts. So not algorithmic vaporware! And…
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The High and Rising Costs of Employer-Provided Health Care
An annual survey of businesses sponsoring employee health coverage is warning of expensive premium hikes in 2026, with an expected average jump of 9.0 percent before cost-cutting changes are implemented. Employers…
Op-Ed
Have You Heard the Good News?
…the far right often using placeholder words like globalist, the far left preferring words like Zionist, though increasingly just going to full-on Jew-blaming (stay classy, James). Both ends of the horseshoe advocate intrusive, autocratic socialistic…
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More Evidence of How Housing Regulation Is Bad for Housing
The American Dream’s geographic escape hatch is slamming shut. New research reveals that once-affordable sunbelt cities like Phoenix, Dallas, and Miami now mirror the restrictive housing markets of San Francisco…
Blog Post
Public Support of Health Insurance Enrollment
Health insurance subsidies, especially as provided by Medicaid, are under scrutiny as Republicans scout for savings to make way for their tax agenda. However, instead of selective cuts, Congress should…
Op-Ed
The American Dream in Ohio depends on stronger Buckeye families
The “American dream” is a “better, richer and happier life for all our citizens of every rank,” wrote the historian James Truslow Adams over a century ago. Yet with ordinary Americans succumbing to “deaths…
Op-Ed
Ohio Ranks Only 29th In The Family Structure Index
…It is a “better, richer, and happier life for all our citizens of every rank,” in the words of James Truslow Adams, the historian who coined the term just over a century…
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Hope And A Future: Forging Strong And Stable Families In Ohio, 2025
What is the American dream? It is a “better, richer, and happier life for all our citizens of every rank,” in the words of James Truslow Adams, the historian who…
Op-Ed
Poverty During the Pandemic and the Role of Government Transfers
The COVID-19 pandemic prompted unprecedented policy interventions in the US that provided nearly $3 trillion to support struggling families. This column examines the short-term effects of these interventions on child…