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Blog Post
Introduction to The Social Breakdown
…with social capital and civil society. As far back as the 1970s, AEI organized the “Mediating Structures Project.” Led by scholars including Peter Berger, Douglas Besharov, Irving Kristol, Leslie Lenkowsky,…
Working Paper
Data Tools 6: The Geography of Traditional Families in America
…structures turn out poorly. The question is which family structure works best. No serious scholar disputes the answer. The rankings of the alternative arrangements that involve only one birth parent…
Op-Ed
How Religious Faith and a Sense of Agency Corresponds with Mental Health
“Sisterhood is powerful.” That was an early slogan of feminism, but it’s hard to imagine it being used to describe young women today. In fact, as a number of scholars…
Report
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…
Book Review
Brave New Technology
…scholar at the Brookings Institution has noted, an important part of this is helping to convince young people, especially boys and men, that these are honorable and viable careers for them and…
Op-Ed
Less Activation in US Social Assistance Programs?
…later in August 2001, the number of families on welfare fell from 4.4 million to under 2.2 million, a decline of more than 50%.[5] The declines were ultimately interrupted by the Great Recession but have continued in the years since, with the TANF caseload falling to 1.1 million families in 2019, immediately prior to the pandemic. As Figure 6.2displays, caseloads remained at that 1.1 million level in June 2020, before subsequently falling to 984,000 in December 2020 (Falk and Landers 2021). As University of Maryland scholar Doug Besharov, writing in 2008 for the…
Testimony
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…
Op-Ed
Second Time’s the Charm?
…need to look different as a result. The debate over this question (including an actual friendly debate among scholars at the American Enterprise Institute, where both authors of this piece work) helped…
Op-Ed
The Bad Science Behind the Child Tax Credit Expansion
…will have no impact on employment among its recipients. That’s what his experts had told him. I cited scholars who had told me that employment would be reduced, and the…
Blog Post
You’re Right, Senator Manchin: There Are No Work Requirements in Biden’s New Safety Net
…important lesson: Struggling families need both work and support to rise out of poverty. Robert Doar is the president of the American Enterprise Institute where he is also the Morgridge Scholar….
Op-Ed
Closing Argument on Farm Bill: Work Requirements in SNAP Will Reduce Poverty
…income tax credit played a role in poverty reduction, no credible scholar denies that work requirements were key. Despite later economic slowdowns, the poverty rate for households headed by single…
Testimony
Work and Family: The Keys to Reducing Poverty
…of poverty that take into account all that government does to help poor Americans, such as the Supplemental Measure produced by scholars at Columbia University or the consumption poverty rate…