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May 4, 2023
Work Is Essential to the American Dream
…work requirements, and evidence showed that it would discourage work. In a landmark working paper, AEI’s Bruce Meyer, Kevin Corinth, and their co-authors estimated that it would cause as many as 1.5…
May 3, 2023
The Mainline Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Social Capitalism
Download the Dataset When Alexis de Tocqueville penned his seminal Democracy in America lauding the strength of American communities, institutions, and associations, he noted the unique status of religion. Religion,…
May 1, 2023
Here’s How Hochul Can Salvage Her Goal of More Affordable Housing in NY
Notably missing from the budget the Legislature is passing is a proposal Gov. Kathy Hochul had marked as a top priority: spurring cities and towns to build 800,000 new housing units….
April 28, 2023
Social Capital: What Is It?
…someone can command on the labor market or otherwise increase a person’s ability to generate income. The term “social” is also fairly precise: it refers to human interactions and relationships….
April 20, 2023
Religion’s Refusal to Die
…and how American civil life can flourish in a country marked by religious belief. The LeFrak Forum is an independently funded center at Michigan State University for research and debate…
April 18, 2023
Introduction to The Social Breakdown
…Richard John Neuhaus, Robert Nisbet, Michael Novak, William Schambra, and Robert Woodson, the project produced the landmark brief To Empower People: From State to Civil Society, which highlighted the importance of…
March 31, 2023
AI and the Future of Work: Preparing the Workforce for an AI-Driven Economy
…the continued integration of AI tools across our economy. To paraphrase Mark Twain, reports of the “end of work” have been greatly exaggerated – more than once. Throughout history, the…
March 27, 2023
Here Are the Kinds of Jobs Chat AI Is Likeliest to Affect
…out last week with a first look at the potential labor market impact of chat technology. If these initial “guesstimates” hold up, we might be looking at an inversion of the recent…
March 15, 2023
Can Businesses Boost Upward Mobility?
…wage growth and professional growth and how they correspond in the US labor market. AEI’s Michael Strain spoke last and shared an optimistic view of wage growth and upward mobility…
March 6, 2023
The Federal AI Shambles
…that undergirded it. Microsoft promptly announced an additional $10 billion of investment in OpenAI research and suddenly it seemed like the whole computer science industrial complex was racing to market…