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July 18, 2023
Yet More Absurdities in Biden’s Housing Policy
…to set aside as much as 57% of their gross income for debt payments, which severely limits how much money a borrower can set aside for a rainy day fund….
July 17, 2023
Testimony: Correcting the Record on the Effects of Replacing the Child Tax Credit with a Child Allowance
Chairman Bennet, Ranking Member Thune, and distinguished members of the Subcommittee on Taxation and IRS Oversight, thank you for the opportunity to testify on the Child Tax Credit (CTC). My…
May 26, 2023
The Power of the Success Sequence
…though racial gaps in achieving middle class status still exist after following the success sequence, as Richard Reeves observed in cross-sectional data, the vast majority of black and Hispanic young…
May 23, 2023
Will Biden Cross a Line on Poverty?
…understand how the economy is performing across all segments of the population and to assess the effects of government policies on communities and families.” But the report’s real purpose could…
May 3, 2023
The Mainline Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Social Capitalism
…socioeconomic diversity across different groups of religious adherents. Some research has investigated the relationship between the prevalence of certain religious traditions—such as mainline and evangelical Protestantism—and specific indicators of social…
May 1, 2023
Promoting Mobility Through SNAP: Toward Better Health and Employment Outcomes
…receives SNAP. Both datasets are cross-sectional, meaning the results reflect the SNAP caseload at points in time, not necessarily the same individuals over time. For our analyses, we grouped SNAP…
April 28, 2023
Social Capital: What Is It?
…assess trends in the various components of social capital (or to consider their distribution across Americans at a point in time). Since Robert Putnam first popularized the concept of social…
February 13, 2023
The Eerie Familiarity of California’s Boom-Bust Cycle
…after President James K. Polk announced the gold discovery to Congress, California’s non-indigenous population jumped from about 10,000 to 255,000. Before the end of the boom, more than 300,000 people from across…
November 17, 2022
American Renewal: Launching a New Conservative Policy Book with Paul Ryan and Angela Rachidi
…Panel Ross Douthat, Nonresident Fellow, AEI Kay Coles James, Secretary of the Commonwealth, Virginia Maya MacGuineas, President, Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget Moderator: Ryan Streeter, Director of Domestic Policy,…
June 15, 2022
Second Time’s the Charm?
…Democrats who controlled both houses of Congress and the presidency were uninterested in cross-partisan policy-making and fully immersed instead in their ill-fated “Build Back Better” fiasco. So, conservatives could let…