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December 4, 2024

Back to Basics: America’s Founding, Civics, and Self-Government in K-12 Curricula

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83171N5kwag AEI Senior Fellow Ian Rowe testifies before the US House Education and Workforce Committee on December 4, 2024, alongside Dr. Jed Atkins, Director and Dean, School of Civic Life…

December 4, 2024

Shifting Patterns of Social Interaction: Exploring the Social Life of Urban Spaces Through A.I.

Abstract We analyze changes in pedestrian behavior over a 30-year period in four urban public spaces located in New York, Boston, and Philadelphia. Building on William Whyte’s observational work from…

November 25, 2024

Don’t Write Off Workforce Pell Grants

…year after completion, the median student’s earnings must exceed $22,590 plus the price of tuition. It’s likely that many of the ineffective workforce education programs evaluated in the pilot would…

November 21, 2024

A Local Option for Natural Gas Fracking

…median household income level. Median income in Broome County, which is located on the Pennsylvania border and which nearly flipped from Biden to Trump (as of current data), is $63,000 compared with the…

November 17, 2024

Affordable Housing—and No Tax Hike

…abundance will also have a positive impact in addressing Denver’s burgeoning homeless rate. Housing Center research found, in a review of 54 variables, that the median-home-price-to-median-income ratio (displacement pressure) had…

November 14, 2024

The Rotting of the College Board

…identifying lower-income students and underrepresented minorities who will thrive. These students do not score as high on average as students from affluent communities or white and Asian students. But a…

November 7, 2024

Introducing the “More Accurate Consumer Price Index”

…2023, and the superior Personal Consumption Expenditures price index (PCEPI) indicates a rise of 30 percent, using the MACPI, wages rose by 61.5 percent. The median wage of prime-age male…

November 4, 2024

Again, Tariffs Didn’t Make American Manufacturing Great

…that America “in the 1890s was probably the wealthiest it ever was” because of its tariff system. First, per capita GDP is, conservatively, seven times higher today than in 1900. That Trumpian

November 1, 2024

Kamala Harris’s Policy Book Doesn’t Even Mention Immigration

…border crisis in U.S. history — probably the largest such event in human history,” according to Mark Krikorian of CIS. Secondary effects have been equally prominent. Customs and Border Protection data indicate…

October 30, 2024

The Geography of Fertility — Where are the Babies?

…care of kids. Moreover, blue states’ commitment to higher education, an egalitarian family life and delayed family formation is also a plus in Cahn and Carbone’s book as they believe…