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September 14, 2023
The Privilege Hiding in Plain Sight
…obscurity of academic journals into the public conversation.” Kearney simply sticks to the facts and makes an overwhelming data-based case that marriage and stable two-parent families matter monumentally to the…
July 18, 2023
Yet More Absurdities in Biden’s Housing Policy
…make matters worse, as long as funds remain, a borrower may claim this payment supplement every five years, which means that it could be re-upped just when the prior supplement…
June 30, 2023
The U.S. Could Learn a Lot from This School in the U.K.
…a de facto voucher to pay private-school tuition. ESA enthusiasts have largely focused on parents’ ability to customize their child’s education. But as a practical matter, most working families need…
June 22, 2023
The Cost of Thriving Has Fallen: Correcting and Rejecting the American Compass Cost-of-Thriving Index
…after taking them into account. Moreover, assessing changes in family affordability in this way, no matter how carefully done, hides improvement over time. While Cass objects to standard inflation adjustment…
June 7, 2023
The Price We’ll Pay for Our AI Future: More Loneliness
…is a poor substitute for traditional friendship: The relationships that matter are formative. They change us. They provide us opportunities to practice forgiveness, patience, and kindness. The most valuable relationships…
May 4, 2023
Work Is Essential to the American Dream
…by any value asked about in the survey. We can’t forget why work matters so much to so many people. Work is the key to achieving the American dream: If…
December 9, 2022
“Automatic Stimulus”: How It Would Have Increased the Record Unemployment Benefits Paid During the Great Recession and Pandemic
Key Points During the pandemic, a series of temporary federal programs that operated from March 2020 until September 2021 provided record unemployment benefit expansions. While those temporary programs followed the…
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
…the potential to make matters much worse. If future students anticipate this is just the first of many loan-cancellation events, they may be willing to pay and borrow more to…
February 23, 2022
The Case Against Universal Free Lunch
…on whether the USDA and AHA are right or wrong in their dietary assumptions. It’s now a matter of well-documented record that the USDA’s original “food pyramid” was reworked against…