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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
The Conservative Case for SNAP Restrictions
…Program (the predecessor of SNAP) focused on transferring excess commodities to hungry families, the program’s emphasis shifted to improving nutrition when it became a national program in the 1970s. The…
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 15, 2023
Instead of ‘Late Capitalism,’ Maybe the US Economy Is Still in ‘Early Capitalism’
…by Clem Aeppli (Harvard) and Nathan Wilmers (MIT) appearing last October in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences. As…
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…
June 9, 2023
Schools Use Racist “Reparations Math” to Indoctrinate Black Students with Victimization
…math education. According to the National Assessment for Educational Progress (AKA The Nation’s Report Card), in 2022, only 26% of all eighth-grade students nationwide performed at or above the NAEP Proficient…