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February 21, 2025
Hope And A Future: Forging Strong And Stable Families In Ohio, 2025
What is the American dream? It is a “better, richer, and happier life for all our citizens of every rank,” in the words of James Truslow Adams, the historian who…
February 20, 2025
The American Dream Is Not a Coin Flip, and Wages Have Not Stagnated
…income trends are contentious in part because they require good measures not only of “nominal” income—how much people actually receive—but of prices (which affect what those incomes can afford). If…
February 18, 2025
Why So Blue: Liberal Women Are Less Happy, More Lonely. But Why?
Young liberal women are especially prone nowadays to reporting poor mental health. This was the discovery that Zach Goldberg made almost five years ago pouring over Pew data in the spring of…
February 11, 2025
AI and the Future of Work Looks Bright
…demands. A project spearheaded by AEI, the Stanford University Digital Economy Lab and NYU is developing novel ways of connecting disparate data sets at the local, state and regional levels…
February 7, 2025
Low-Performing Students Fall Farther Behind the Pack
…against this junk science and demanding that their reading instruction be based on the science of reading. (It is hard to overstate just how important the work of Emily Hanford and…
February 6, 2025
The Trump Administration is Already Proving to be Family Friendly
…Life last month, Vice President JD Vance declared it is “the task of our government to make it easier for young moms and dads to afford to have kids” and to “raise…
February 6, 2025
The 10th Annual American Family Survey: Opportunities and Obstacles to a Broad-Based Political Coalition for Families
Event Summary On February 6, Chris Karpowitz and Jeremy Pope of the Center for the Study of Elections and Democracy presented research findings from the 10th annual American Family Survey….
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….