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September 15, 2023
What Does a Good Economy Look Like?
…2024. Let’s start with a chart from Scott Winship at the American Enterprise Institute (where I am a nonresident fellow), who is a longtime skeptic of the more dire populist diagnoses of…
September 15, 2023
Putting This Year’s Poverty Numbers in Context
On Tuesday, the Census Bureau released its latest income and poverty estimates covering calendar year 2022, including two assessments of poverty in America. One, called the Official Poverty Measure (OPM),…
August 2, 2023
Measuring Social Capital: Can We Tell If Some Places Are Richer in Social Capital Than Others?
The concept of social capital has been inconsistently defined and described.[1]That should not be surprising, given that social capital is intangible and not easily measured. (The same is true of…
June 30, 2023
It’s Time to End Legacy Admissions
…legacy admissions. Republican senator and presidential candidate Tim Scott told an interviewer Thursday that he welcomed the Court’s decision, but he added that “one of the things that Harvard could do to…
June 22, 2023
The Cost of Thriving Has Fallen: Correcting and Rejecting the American Compass Cost-of-Thriving Index
Abstract The Cost-of-Thriving Index (COTI), developed by American Compass Executive Director Oren Cass, asks whether families can afford a middle-class lifestyle. It compares the costs of five goods and services…
May 4, 2023
Work Is Essential to the American Dream
…leaders nationwide. The American Dream Initiative includes: AEI’s new Center on Opportunity and Social Mobility, led by AEI scholars Scott Winship and Kevin Corinth. This center will serve as a hub of…
June 15, 2022
Second Time’s the Charm?
…a lot of conservatives clarify our priorities, goals, and arguments. The two of us were on opposite sides of the Romney proposal — Winship in opposition and Levin in support. Everyone involved supported…
July 2, 2021
Addressing the Shortcomings of the Supplemental Poverty Measure
Key Points The Supplemental Poverty Measure (SPM) partly improves on the Official Poverty Measure but still suffers from several shortcomings that limit its usefulness as an effective poverty measure. The…