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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 6, 2025
This Child Welfare Rule Puts Social Justice Over Safety
…years, the media have bombarded us with stories of children placed with strangers because their extended family couldn’t afford an extra bedroom, or aunts who had to endure endless hours…
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…
November 15, 2024
JD Vance is Right: Reduce the Power of Big Foundations to Help Charity
In his 2021 campaign for Senate, JD Vance, now vice-president-elect, minced no words in expressing his disdain for two of America’s largest private, philanthropic institutions: the Ford Foundation and the Gates Foundations. …
November 14, 2024
Florida, the Forgotten Education-Reform Star
…As Fordham’s Mike Petrilli pointed out a few years ago, “from the late 1990s until 2017, the reading performance of Black fourth-graders in Florida skyrocketed 26 points—equivalent to more than two grade…