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May 22, 2024
Missed Opportunities in the Proposed Farm Bill
House Agriculture Committee Chairman Glenn Thompson’s proposed Farm Bill reauthorization, The Farm, Food, and National Security Act of 2024, heads to committee markup today. The Farm Bill is a tough reauthorization…
May 13, 2024
Do Mothers Have “Societal Support”? Does It Count if It Comes from Neighbors?
…Americans have such community support, which comes neither from the market nor the state. These are largely people who belong to religious communities. Both of my last two books have…
May 9, 2024
FAFSA Flop: What Is Going On with the 2024–25 Cycle?
Event Summary On May 9, AEI hosted a panel conversation with AEI’s Beth Akers and Michael Brickman, Karen McCarthy of the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators, and Mark…
May 9, 2024
The Federal Student Loan Program Is Unraveling
…enough to create a thriving private student loan market. Leaning against financial innovation, hostile regulators often threaten to block the private sector from using factors correlated with each college’s financial value…
May 9, 2024
State Housing Bills Are Dead; Time for Local Leaders to Step Up
…is to unleash market forces by cutting red tape. Allowing individuals to build on smaller lots, reducing parking requirements, or opening up commercial areas for mixed-use development — policies similar…
May 8, 2024
Correcting for Bias; How Public Radio Can Better Serve All Americans
…white and progressive, and clustered around coastal cities and college towns.” Pew reports that NPR’s audience declined by 6% between 2021 and 2022. This is not the mark of a…
May 6, 2024
How States and Communities Can Strengthen Marriages
Family is the greatest source of social capital, providing the setting in which people grow, develop, and anchor their lives. Stable and healthy marriages are at the foundation of strong…
May 2, 2024
A New Lost Generation: Disengaged, Aimless, and Adrift
…grace” during the pandemic, one middle school teacher and administrator told me. Students didn’t just get passing marks, they got good grades for minimal effort. Now there’s a lack of…
April 23, 2024
Awkward Truth: Subsidizing Women’s Work Drives Down Birthrates
…minister of state for universities and science. New York Times columnist Michelle Goldberg argued that “in countries that support working mothers, like Sweden, Denmark, Norway and France, birthrates are basically fine.”…
April 21, 2024
The Real Bias at NPR: Story Selection
…sociologist Herbert J. Gans studied in his landmark 1980 book Deciding What’s News: story selection. Quite simply, the “news,” as Gans helps us understand, is not a self-evident set of events about…