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November 9, 2023
What Dems — And NYC — Can Learn From The GOP’s Bronx City Council Win
…help a favored few while distorting the overall housing market. Income-restricted “affordable” units require households to qualify based on their income — but they can stay as long as they want…
November 3, 2023
The Biden AI Executive Order: Dark Brandon or Uncle Joe?
…including effects on job skills and evaluation of applicants and workers.” Here, Uncle Joe is out over his skis. Our labor market information (LMI) system, which would form the basis…
October 31, 2023
It Takes Two
…are in a stable, loving relationship. They also matter because the likelihood that a child lives with married parents has fallen markedly. In 1980, 77 percent of children in the…
October 27, 2023
What liberals don’t understand about men and marriage
…culture. The kinds of men who embrace marriage as an institution are more likely to be married today. Men and fatherhood. Men who connect marriage to children are also markedly more likely to…
October 25, 2023
The Freedom to Choose
…30 years: despair and polarization. Beginning in the late 1980s, I began to notice how conservatives, as they lost cultural market share, increasingly despaired of the country (“Come home, America,” as a National…
October 25, 2023
Dispelling Myths About The Child Tax Credit
…their income and thus reduced child poverty. But the massive deficit spending in the ARP and other trillion-dollar bills also contributed to higher inflation , which disproportionately hurts lower-income families . Economist Mark Zandi found the…
October 20, 2023
Revenge of the Rust Belt: The Surprising Forces That Have Made the Midwest the Hottest Housing Market Around
In the Fortune article below Shawn Tully discusses the resurgence of the Midwest’s housing market with Ed Pinto, the Director of AEI’s Housing Center. According to American Enterprise Institute data, eight of…
October 18, 2023
Vocation: A Cure for Burnout
…thinkers who shed important light on issues relating to work and well-being are Adam Smith and Karl Marx. Though these two giants of economics came to the issue from diametrically opposed views on market…
October 12, 2023
The GOP Should Be the Party of Parents
…focusing them on a coherent constituency that can be approached from different angles. Conservatives inclined to arguments for market competition could focus, as they long have, on educational choice; opportunities…
October 12, 2023
Now the Administration Is Legislating on Welfare, Too
…“executive action” on student loans, energy regulation, and more, the new TANF regulation offers another example of this administration willfully treading on Congress’ legislative turf. The creation of TANF marked the first…