Welcome to Our Research Archive
Search and filter by content type, issue area, author, and keyword
August 3, 2023
Another Pandemic Legacy: Removing the EITC’s Work and Earnings Requirement
…prior annual earnings. And that’s without counting the temporarily expanded child tax credit (worth up to $7,200 for two children) that was paid to nonworking parents for the first time…
August 3, 2023
Fight Crime, and Poverty, with Civil Society
Maryland’s new Democratic governor, Wes Moore, has to play to his party’s increasingly left-wing base, but he also knows that problem No. 1 in much of the state is rising crime. Prince George’s…
August 3, 2023
Does Money (and Economic Growth) Buy Happiness?
…US, well done. Time to dial things down. Less work, more leisure. But maybe not. A 2021 analysis by Matthew A. Killingsworth, a senior fellow at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School,…
August 3, 2023
Expanding Economic Opportunities Through Evidence-Based Sector Training
…and flexible funding is vital for scaling sector-based training programs. Promoting fidelity, avoiding ill-conceived or overly prescriptive policies that undermine program intent, and allowing sufficient time for results are important…
August 2, 2023
The Best Predictor of Happiness in America? Marriage
…is stable over time. It is about the same whether the unmarried state is due to divorce, separation, death of spouse or never having married,” Peltzman says. What’s more, he…
August 1, 2023
How the Middle Class Is Faring: My Long-Read Q&A with Jeremy Horpedahl
…average American isn’t following all this data too closely, but I think most people have seen a statistic that over some 40- or 50-year time period, if you adjust for…
July 31, 2023
Biden’s Under-the-Radar Budget Bomb: A New Student Loan Repayment Plan
…We’ve long had in place programs that protect borrowers from facing unaffordable student loan payments in times of depressed earnings (even granting forgiveness for longstanding unaffordable debts.) These programs are…
July 31, 2023
The Utah Model: Workforce Programs and Services Integration Tool Kit
…and comprehensive one-stop approach to administering workforce and human services programs, allowing employees to work on multiple programs without the burden of extensive time and effort reporting. The state’s system…
July 30, 2023
26 Miles of Scaffolding Blights NYC’s Public Housing, Some Up for 10 Years
…feet, their time standing in years, not months. NYCHA, reported here for the first time, has 137,022 linear feet of sidewalk sheds — 26 miles — installed in 114 of its developments….
July 28, 2023
The Time Is Now for Workforce Innovation
Over the past two years, I have had the honor and privilege of steering AEI’s Workforce Future’s Initiative in collaboration with colleagues at The Brookings Institution and The Harvard Kennedy School’s Project…