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September 18, 2023
No Culture Wars, Please, We’re Academics
…on children and how they develop as adults. “Children in two-parent homes tend to live in homes with a higher level of income and have more time with their parents…
September 18, 2023
A Degree of Risk
…trail but fail to address the core challenges and often exacerbate them. The 2020 Democratic presidential primary was the first time that ambitious higher education policy reform seemed to play…
September 15, 2023
What Does a Good Economy Look Like?
…era through the mid-2010s. Meaning that at the time of Trump’s first campaign, the populists had a point about economic disappointment, and the 21st century economy seemed to be letting…
September 15, 2023
Putting This Year’s Poverty Numbers in Context
…poverty rates then. But most of those temporary benefits expired by 2022, causing poverty rates to rise (again, under the SPM but not the OPM). New York Times headlines covering…
September 14, 2023
The Privilege Hiding in Plain Sight
…my only wish is that she had spent more time in two areas: (1) advocating that marriage and family structure become a standard data category through which child outcomes are…
September 13, 2023
American Dreamers
…economic progress for generations to come. Through ADI, AEI scholars are investing time and energy in policy analysis and development to expand access to the American dream for individuals, families…
September 12, 2023
Please, Gen Z Aren’t “Doomed to be the First Generation of Americans Who Will Grow Up with a Lower Standard of Living Than Their Parents”
…says this War might last for “a very long time.” Generals and military scholars will tell you that eight or 10 years is actually not such a long time in…
September 12, 2023
Time Is a School’s Most Precious Resource. Where Does It Go?
…time. Last year, the Merrimack College Teacher Survey reported that 29 percent of teachers said they wanted more planning time, 28 percent wanted more actual teaching time, and 17 percent more time…
September 8, 2023
Is Vote Dilution Necessarily Bad?
…advantage, rather than an electoral weakness. As recounted in Israel in the Mind of America, the 1983 book by one-time New York Times reporter Peter Grose, Silver’s American Zionist Emergency Council set about…
September 7, 2023
AI Closes the Gaps
It’s a perennial hazard of the policy and opinion space that just about the time one is ready to hold forth on a topic, another, smarter, faster writer jumps in….