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July 15, 2024
It Is Time to Set Goals for Cutting Chronic Absenteeism
Believe it or not, the 2024–25 school year will begin in some parts of the country in less than a month, and students will return to school. Whether they return…
July 14, 2024
Fostering Normalcy for Foster Kids
…a debit card. Matt Callahan, a case manager for the Transition House (a residential program to help foster kids as young as 16 learn the skills they will need to…
June 20, 2024
The War on Poverty at 60: Lessons to Inform the Future
…measure better reflects material circumstances than income does. AEI’s Richard Burkhauser discussed what a full income poverty measure would entail. The second panel focused on policies enacted during the Great…
June 18, 2024
A Unified Theory of Education
…focusing on results that match the model. Second, good educational institutions are voluntary. Government agencies don’t spin the same webs of support that voluntary organizations do. Bureaucratic routines and electronic…
June 18, 2024
Economic Opportunity and Social Mobility
…measure of how people do relative to their parents. Of course, asking “how people do” begs the question of which outcomes matter. We could look at an individual’s hourly wages,…
June 18, 2024
Answering Key Questions About Unemployment Insurance Reforms
…system to better support American workers, businesses, and taxpayers. My name is Matt Weidinger, and I am a Rowe Scholar in poverty studies at the American Enterprise Institute. Previously, I…
June 18, 2024
Donald Trump is an Outlier on the Right: When It Comes to Fidelity and Marriage, Democrats Face Bigger Problems
…the Republican standard bearer’s marital misbehavior eroded our collective commitment to the values and virtues that sustain the institution of marriage? On the left, journalist Matt Yglesias wondered if Trump’s bad example…
June 17, 2024
Fixing the Roof on Sunny Days—and Other Lessons in Administering Unemployment Benefits
A recent hearing of the House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Work and Welfare confirmed that the financing of the nation’s Unemployment Insurance (UI) system is enormously complicated. Even the…
June 13, 2024
The Family-to-Prison-or-College Pipeline: Married Fathers and Young Men’s Transition to Adulthood
…matter, including fathers, for America’s boys and men. Therefore, any effort to revive the falling fortunes of young men should put family at the forefront. Brad Wilcox is the Future of Freedom…
June 13, 2024
Why Married Fathers Matter
…as Richard Reeves noted in his book “Of Boys and Men: Why the Modern Male is Struggling, Why it Matters, and What to Do About It.” This pattern doesn’t stop…