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June 20, 2025
Senate Embraces “Do No Harm” for Higher Education
…$27,000. The Senate proposal’s main shortcoming is its failure to account for debt burdens. Many degree programs deliver earnings slightly above the benchmark but impose outrageous student debt burdens. For…
June 17, 2025
Work Requirements For Medicaid Could Increase Income and Reduce Poverty
…of people leaving the rolls swamped the number of new people joining them. That was one reason that projections of increased poverty due to reform were so off the mark:…
June 16, 2025
Accountable for Outcomes: We Need Evidence-Based Funding Models
Key Points With over 1.1 million credentials available but only 12 percent delivering significant wage gains, learners face a chaotic marketplace that lacks effective oversight. Top-decile credentials yield annual wage…
June 16, 2025
The ‘Father Divide’ and What it Means for Our Kids
This Father’s Day, an estimated 72 million greeting cards will zip through the mail, according to Hallmark. Father’s Day ranks a respectable fourth on the list of the highest “card-buying” holidays of the year….
June 12, 2025
The Senate’s Higher Education Reforms Are Strong (But Could Be Stronger)
…incomplete. The accountability system incorporates no measure of prices or student debt burdens—if graduates’ median earnings are one dollar above the benchmark, colleges face no accountability, even if debt burdens…
June 11, 2025
From Engineers to Fast Food, How AI Is Rocking the Future of Jobs
…and cognitive work. The concern Indian engineers express is increasingly visible across global labor markets. U.S. labor unions are calling for AI legal protections. Fast food chains are testing AI-driven voice ordering…
June 10, 2025
America’s Housing Supply Problem: The Closing of the Suburban Frontier?
…it did from 1980-2000, there would be 15 million more housing units. This paper analyzes the decline of America’s new housing supply, focusing on large sunbelt markets such as Atlanta,…
June 5, 2025
Measuring the Value of Nondegree Credentials
…Opens 5:00 p.m. Opening Remarks: Mark Schneider, Nonresident Senior Fellow, American Enterprise Institute 5:05 p.m. Conversation: Mark Schneider, Nonresident Senior Fellow, American Enterprise Institute Matt Sigelman, President, The Burning Glass…
June 5, 2025
More Evidence of How Housing Regulation Is Bad for Housing
The American Dream’s geographic escape hatch is slamming shut. New research reveals that once-affordable sunbelt cities like Phoenix, Dallas, and Miami now mirror the restrictive housing markets of San Francisco…
June 5, 2025
Degrees of Risk: STEM Is Bearing Less Fruit
…noncognitive skills were the attributes most in demand by employers. Here are the opening bullets of that report: Labor market data and employer feedback suggest that the emphasis on STEM…