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June 7, 2023
Don’t Give Away the Farm Bill
…the Thrifty Food plan to demonstrate the cost of a healthy diet, helping families find nutritious food on a budget. It serves as the benchmark for food stamps, also called…
June 7, 2023
How ‘Negativity Bias’ Skews the Conversation About Artificial Intelligence
…might not be as helpful in the security and abundance of the modern world. Understanding negativity bias doesn’t require expertise in evolutionary psychology. Adam Smith, the father of market economics,…
May 23, 2023
The White House Defender of Welfare Work Requirements
…followed by marked increases in work and earnings and sharp declines in poverty and benefit dependence. Writing about the impact of welfare reform in 2008, liberal poverty expert Robert Moffitt wrote: “The findings on employment and…
May 19, 2023
House Bill Makes Room for Improvements to SNAP
This week, the House Appropriations Committee marked up a spending bill for the US Department of Agriculture and related agencies, which includes many of the nation’s largest safety net and nutrition programs—most…
May 5, 2023
Wrong Diagnosis, Wrong Prescription
…private market for housing. He scorns the earned income tax credit, which, he suggests—contrary to a large body of evidence—has not reduced poverty since its rollout and expansion. The lack…
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…
January 7, 2023
Personal Responsibility, Not Victimhood, Is the Path to Success
…is called the “Success Sequence,” and black and Hispanic young adults who have followed it are markedly more likely to be flourishing financially today, according to a recent report from the American…
August 23, 2021
Policies to Help the Working Class in the Aftermath of COVID-19: Lessons from the Great Recession
…higher among the working class. The key lesson from the Great Recession is that strong economic growth and a hot labor market do more to improve the economic well-being of…
July 2, 2021
Addressing the Shortcomings of the Supplemental Poverty Measure
…full market value of health insurance—perhaps capped as a fraction of total resources—and one that includes a zero value of health insurance. The latter measure should not deduct medical out-of-pocket…