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January 2, 2024
We Can Make Chicago Safer By Prioritizing Stronger Families
…family is not the only factor driving crime. It’s clear that factors such as poverty and race also matter for crime rates. It’s also clear that political and law enforcement…
December 26, 2023
Safe-Injection Sites and Crime
…not all crimes are equally severe, and a potential ‘safe injection site’ attributable increase in aggravated assaults is undoubtedly a matter of public concern.” Del Pozo responded in JAMA by…
December 14, 2023
Perspective: What Flexibility Means for Younger Workers — and Their Employers
…to 29-year-olds reported being able to take care of personal matters during the workday compared to 46% of those ages 30 to 64. It’s fair to chalk up some of…
December 11, 2023
How to make smartphones and apps safer for kids
…legislation to keep underage users off pornography sites — which as a matter of practice turn a blind eye to the great mass of adolescents accessing their obscene and addictive…
December 8, 2023
Biden’s Even Worse Version of “Free College”
…will change behavior. That’s why cost estimates for changes to repayment programs have consistently underestimated the cost to taxpayers. As my AEI colleague Nat Malkus has calculated, Congress expected IDR (and…
December 7, 2023
The White House Council of Economic Advisers Contradicts the President’s Poverty Talking Points
Before Thanksgiving, the White House Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) released a blog post titled “The Anti-Poverty and Income Boosting Impacts of the Enhanced CTC.” That’s a reference to the temporary—and now…
December 5, 2023
The Ninth Annual American Family Survey: Perceptions and Realities of Issues Families Face Today
…match what the public reports as the biggest issues for their own families. The ninth annual American Family Survey delves into the experiences of American families in 2023, putting these…
December 4, 2023
A Pro-Market and Pro-Social Economy
…cultivate habits of social interaction that lead, over time, to healthy societies. Through free economic exchange, societies advance materially and socially because free markets require parties to consider the interests of their neighbors, friends, and competitors…
December 4, 2023
Post-Prohibition Pot Regulation: Should It Be More Like Tobacco?
…matter, it’s simply easier to grow and smuggle; Americans seem indifferent to the fact that our purchases of illegal drugs effectively support narco-gangs in Latin America. It can even be…
December 1, 2023
Making the Child Tax Credit “Fully Refundable” Converts It into Welfare Checks
In what is becoming an annual ritual, news accounts and DC sources suggest liberals’ end-of-year legislative wish list once again includes reviving the worst part of Democrats’ partisan 2021 child tax credit (CTC) expansion….