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February 3, 2025
Legislators Want to Give Tens of Millions of Free Lunches to Students Who Don’t Need Them
…important to understand what policies exist to help low-income families with children afford food. Wisconsin schools already provide free or reduced-price school meals to children with low incomes through the National…
January 30, 2025
American Greatness Depends on Strong Families
…moms and dads to afford to have kids,” recognizing national success not in terms of GDP but in “whether people feel that they can raise thriving and healthy families in…
January 21, 2025
How Trump Can Permanently Fix the Student Loan Program
…cannot afford. If such a system were in place, taxpayers could save up to $10 billion a year by no longer making loans that are almost guaranteed to go bad….
January 17, 2025
Regulations Keep Millions of Bedrooms Empty During a Housing Crisis
…persons per household in 1970 to 2.5 in 2023. As Americans have become wealthier, they can afford bigger houses—and stay put even when their children move out. But even if…
January 16, 2025
Should We Believe the Economic Data or Americans’ “Lyin’” Eyes? The Answer Is Yes.
…all single breadwinners allegedly could afford a home and two cars for a family of four. Everyone seemingly knows someone who did everything they were supposed to do but is…
January 2, 2025
AI Will Have a Major Impact on Labor Markets. Here’s How the US Can Prepare
…will require new types of data-integrated platforms and innovative tools to examine how AI may affect work and skills. A joint AEI-Stanford University-NYU project is proposing a nonpartisan, nonprofit institute similar in…
December 29, 2024
Why Rent Regulation Remains So Hard to Undo in NYC
…afford it. More recently, in 2018, the liberal Brookings Institution cited the same problem: “Once a tenant has secured a rent-controlled apartment, he may not choose to move in the future and…
December 12, 2024
Which Men Cheat Least? Republican Husbands, Especially ‘Religious Wife Guys’
Republicans have an infidelity problem. If your only impression of Republican marriages was ripped from the latest headlines, this would seem to be a reasonable conclusion. But the picture appears…
December 2, 2024
The Pursuit of Happiness Starts with Families: A Conversation Between Brad Wilcox and Gov. Spencer Cox
Utah has been at the forefront of a national conversation about how to grow and strengthen families, thanks in part to the leadership of Gov. Spencer Cox. I recently invited…
November 15, 2024
Calibration: Making AI a Partner at Work
…ones who will gain the most from supportive AI tools at work. In 2023, Stanford University economist Erik Brynjolfsson published a study showing the use of AI chatbots for call center workers…