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January 3, 2023
Systemic Disadvantage
…mattered. “Libertarian fundamentalists” and “cosmopolitan elites” pushing deindustrialization, rather than “culture,” were deemed the headwaters of white poverty for the simple reason that it’s easier to claim victim status when…
January 3, 2023
Perspective: Women Are More Likely to Make Friends at Work Than Men. Here’s Why That Matters
Despite efforts to close the gender wage gap, the difference between men’s and women’s wages remains a stubborn fixture of modern society. Women still make 83 cents for every dollar men make….
January 1, 2023
Perspective: Is your boss on your DOS? How remote work monitoring can work
The challenge is to develop and use tools that reinforce trust rather than weaken it As COVID-19 recedes, American workers are filtering, slowly and fitfully, back to the office. In…
December 15, 2022
The Myth of Income Stagnation
…consumption gains over those decades. Could this material progress really have coincided with stagnating incomes? Relying on anecdotes and intuition to compute economic trends can work sometimes, but it can…
December 9, 2022
“Automatic Stimulus”: How It Would Have Increased the Record Unemployment Benefits Paid During the Great Recession and Pandemic
…2021, when President Joe Biden said it “makes sense” they expired.8 Under one policy guaranteeing that benefits during a health emergency match prior earnings, expanded federal benefits would remain payable today…
November 28, 2022
Public School Instructional Offerings and Enrollment Changes: Evidence from Two Years After the Pandemic
…2021–22 school year. Our results suggest that the most-remote districts lost over 600,000 more students than they might have if their in-person instructional offerings matched those of the most-in-person districts….
November 17, 2022
American Renewal: Launching a New Conservative Policy Book with Paul Ryan and Angela Rachidi
…issues are not intractable or unsolvable. The reforms contained in American Renewal, drawing on insights from subject matter experts, offer policymakers concrete proposals to restore the government’s promise to Americans…
November 3, 2022
Child Poverty: Trends and Outlook
…Duke Charitable Foundation, was moderated by Aparna Mathur, Senior Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School’s Mossavar-Rahmani Center. The panelists were Dana Thomson of Child Trends, Samuel Hammond of the Niskanen Center;…
September 30, 2022
Off Track: An Assessment of Wisconsin’s Early Care and Learning System for Young Children
…parents supply children with the most crucial material treasure they ever will receive — a stable, loving home — many rely on some outside help in caring for their children…
September 21, 2022
Lessons from the Unprecedented Fraud and Abuse of the Unemployment Benefits System During the Pandemic
…administration of the Unemployment Insurance system. My name is Matt Weidinger, and I am a senior fellow and Rowe Scholar in poverty studies at the American Enterprise Institute. I previously…