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April 22, 2024
The Promise and Peril of Civic Renewal: Richard John Neuhaus, Peter L. Berger, and “To Empower People”
On April 22, AEI and the Ethics & Public Policy Center hosted a discussion on the legacy of Richard John Neuhaus and Peter L. Berger’s 1977 book, To Empower People:…
April 17, 2024
Homelessness and the Persistence of Deprivation: Income, Employment, and Safety Net Participation
…poverty literature. This paper provides the most detailed and accurate portrait to date of the level and persistence of material disadvantage faced by this population, including the first national estimates…
April 11, 2024
The “Case for Curriculum” Is about Reducing Teachers’ Workload
…curriculum. We know from various RAND surveys that nearly all teachers draw upon “materials I developed and/or selected myself” to teach English language arts, for example. Those materials don’t create themselves. An MDR…
April 11, 2024
The Right Has an Opportunity to Rethink Education in America
…the SAT should matter for college admissions. Meanwhile, California’s Democratic officials recently approved new math standards that would end advanced math in elementary and middle school and Oregon’s have abolished the requirement that high school…
April 10, 2024
The Political Landmines Buried in the Latest Jobs Report
CNN on Friday dubbed the latest monthly jobs report a “blowout,” pointing to 303,000 net new jobs created in March. President Joe Biden immediately claimed credit, saying the report “marks a…
April 9, 2024
The Case for Curriculum Reform
…Fellow, American Enterprise Institute 4:05 p.m. Panel Discussion Panelists: Barbara Davidson, Executive Director, Knowledge Matters Campaign, StandardsWork Kristen McQuillan, Partner, TNTP Orlando Riddick, Division Superintendent, Houston Independent School District David…
April 9, 2024
The Child Tax Credit: My Long-Read Q&A with Kevin Corinth
…get no matter what. So the Wyden-Smith bill does not go there, but it goes part of the way there and I think it sets up a negotiating position. If…
April 9, 2024
Biden Knows Student Loan Cancellation Is a Bad Idea
…It seems that this administration is more interested in scoring political points than enacting good policy. The math is simple: 30 million Americans with lower or completely forgiven student loan…
April 8, 2024
We Still Don’t Know How Much Taxpayers Lost Due to Pandemic Unemployment Assistance Fraud
…something else very strange about OMB’s math: it appears to be missing billions of dollars in additional federal benefits paid, in many cases improperly, to PUA recipients. The OMB report…
April 5, 2024
The US Is Failing Substance-Exposed Infants
…are typically below 5 percent. Discretion in testing by medical professionals results in disproportionate testing of low-income and racial minority mothers. See Samuel Cohen et al., “Disparities in Maternal-Infant Drug…