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August 2, 2023
Measuring Social Capital: Can We Tell If Some Places Are Richer in Social Capital Than Others?
…in the lowest decile of social capital—Louisiana, Nevada, New Mexico, Florida, and Arizona—consistently rank below the median on each subindex,[3] suggesting that each subindex captures related features of social capital. Similarly,…
July 18, 2023
The Great Recession, COVID-19, Interest Hikes Left a 15-Year Mark on Housing
…Here’s the short answer: The Great Recession pushed down the number of mortgages in the region, and then COVID-19 pushed that number back up The median value of mortgages also…
June 30, 2023
The U.S. Could Learn a Lot from This School in the U.K.
…Arizona adopted universal ESAs, for example, Great Hearts Academies, a well-regarded charter-school operator, moved quickly to launch a network of private, classical Christian academies aimed at low-income families who are now armed…
June 26, 2023
Why There Are So Few Black Kids at Stuyvesant: Private Schools and Charter Schools Pull Top Students Out of the System
…In 2022, only 1% of Black students scored at the advanced level in reading. By contrast, 5% of white and 12% of Asian students scored at that level. These shares were exactly…
June 22, 2023
The Cost of Thriving Has Fallen: Correcting and Rejecting the American Compass Cost-of-Thriving Index
…purchase in 1985. For 2022, Cass’s answer to that question is a strong “no”: It would take more weeks than there are in a year for the median man to…
April 17, 2023
Data Tools 6: The Geography of Traditional Families in America
…other two-parent configurations. In the 2021 ACS, median family income was $115,600 for children of married birth parents, $87,300 for children of parent-stepparent couples, and only $33,500 for children of…
February 22, 2023
Unlocking the Future
Editor’s Note: The following chapters are AEI scholars’ contributions to a report from Opportunity America’s working group on K-12 education. The toll of the pandemic years is becoming clearer every…
December 15, 2022
The Myth of Income Stagnation
…confirm that the conventional wisdom is off-base. According to the CBO, median household income from market activities – labor, business, and capital income, as well as retirement income from past…
September 21, 2022
Lessons from the Unprecedented Fraud and Abuse of the Unemployment Benefits System During the Pandemic
…administration of the Unemployment Insurance system. My name is Matt Weidinger, and I am a senior fellow and Rowe Scholar in poverty studies at the American Enterprise Institute. I previously…
August 30, 2022
Biden’s Student Loan Debt Plan is Driven by Politics, Not Economics
…could be. But the cutoff, $125,000 for individuals, means that borrowers earning three times the median income in the United States are still eligible for this giveaway. More important, the plan delivers…