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Doing Right by Kids: A Book Event

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Latest Updates

Hurt Pennsylvania’s Workers to Win Pennsylvania’s Votes?

September 5, 2024 | Michael R. Strain

Kamala Harris’s Housing Plan Would Be Worse Than Doing Nothing

September 4, 2024 | Edward J. Pinto and Tobias Peter

Doing Right by Kids: A Book Event

September 3, 2024 | Scott Winship et al. and Register Here

Event: New Census Data on American Families’ Economic Well-Being

September 3, 2024 | Kevin Corinth et al. and Register Here

This Is How to Fix the Housing Crisis

September 2, 2024 | Edward L. Glaeser

The Distribution of Social Capital across Individuals and its Relationship to Income

August 29, 2024 | Kevin Corinth, Scott Winship, and Thomas O'Rourke

Some Context Behind JD Vance’s Child Tax Credit Comments

August 28, 2024 | Angela Rachidi and Matt Weidinger

Kamala Harris Will Pay You Not to Work

August 15, 2024 | Matt Weidinger

Are Opportunity Zones an Effective Place-Based Policy?

August 5, 2024 | Kevin Corinth and Naomi Feldman

In the News

Are American Workers’ Wages Really Lagging Productivity?

The economic doomsayers have it wrong: Worker pay has tracked with productivity over the last 50 years.

The Dual Promise of the American Dream

A reform conservatism can revive the promise of the Dream for those kids facing long odds.

Forget the Cost of Living. What’s the Cost of Thriving in America?

Two conservative thinkers clash over whether the middle class is more prosperous than a generation ago.