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December 15, 2022
The Myth of Income Stagnation
…consumption gains over those decades. Could this material progress really have coincided with stagnating incomes? Relying on anecdotes and intuition to compute economic trends can work sometimes, but it can…
December 9, 2022
“Automatic Stimulus”: How It Would Have Increased the Record Unemployment Benefits Paid During the Great Recession and Pandemic
…2021, when President Joe Biden said it “makes sense” they expired.8 Under one policy guaranteeing that benefits during a health emergency match prior earnings, expanded federal benefits would remain payable today…
November 28, 2022
Public School Instructional Offerings and Enrollment Changes: Evidence from Two Years After the Pandemic
…2021–22 school year. Our results suggest that the most-remote districts lost over 600,000 more students than they might have if their in-person instructional offerings matched those of the most-in-person districts….
September 21, 2022
Lessons from the Unprecedented Fraud and Abuse of the Unemployment Benefits System During the Pandemic
…administration of the Unemployment Insurance system. My name is Matt Weidinger, and I am a senior fellow and Rowe Scholar in poverty studies at the American Enterprise Institute. I previously…
September 19, 2022
Men Without Work in the Post-Pandemic Era
…the crisis facing America’s workforce. Event Materials America’s Work Crisis Enters a New Phase Event Transcript Agenda 10:30 a.m. Introduction: Michael R. Strain, Director of Economic Policy Studies, AEI 10:35…
August 30, 2022
Biden’s Student Loan Debt Plan is Driven by Politics, Not Economics
…the potential to make matters much worse. If future students anticipate this is just the first of many loan-cancellation events, they may be willing to pay and borrow more to…
August 10, 2022
A Failure to Respond: Public School Mask Mandates in the 2021–22 School Year
Key Points From September 2021 to late February 2022, school district mask mandates were in place for 61 percent of students in the US.During that period, Centers for Disease Control…
February 23, 2022
The Case Against Universal Free Lunch
…on whether the USDA and AHA are right or wrong in their dietary assumptions. It’s now a matter of well-documented record that the USDA’s original “food pyramid” was reworked against…
November 16, 2021
The Changing Face of Social Breakdown
…raw material for the sculptor to work with? The right to pursue happiness won’t do us much good if we don’t exercise it. Our best traditions grasp this danger. We…
July 2, 2021
Addressing the Shortcomings of the Supplemental Poverty Measure
Key Points The Supplemental Poverty Measure (SPM) partly improves on the Official Poverty Measure but still suffers from several shortcomings that limit its usefulness as an effective poverty measure. The…