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June 30, 2023
The U.S. Could Learn a Lot from This School in the U.K.
…spent educating their child. Parents can direct those funds to provide for their child’s education — anything from hiring tutors and purchasing curricular materials to simply using the money as…
June 28, 2023
Yes, College Is Still a Good Investment
…not, work experiences really matter—perhaps especially for those who don’t go on to college. This is a critical insight given the declining proportion of teenagers who hold jobs. Learning the habits and…
June 27, 2023
House Republican Plan Penalizes Marriage
If there was something liberals used to hate most about welfare reform, it was policies that promoted more work and smaller welfare caseloads. For example, during debate about 1996 reforms, Sen. Carol Moseley-Braun (D-IL) asked what would happen to families if…
June 26, 2023
Why There Are So Few Black Kids at Stuyvesant: Private Schools and Charter Schools Pull Top Students Out of the System
…the same as in 2019; and the math disparities are even greater. Since New York’s overall scores were not significantly different than the national averages, there is no reason to believe that…
June 24, 2023
Family Affordability in America: A Story of Decline or Achievement?
…on these interpretations. Join AEI’s Scott Winship and Angela Rachidi and American Compass’s Oren Cass to review and debate the evidence on family affordability in America. Event Materials Event Transcript…
June 22, 2023
The Cost of Thriving Has Fallen: Correcting and Rejecting the American Compass Cost-of-Thriving Index
…increase in all these costs—and dramatically so for some of them. Making appropriate adjustments to Cass’s figures, we find that it has become easier for a male earner to support…
June 21, 2023
The Bad Math Behind Economic Doomerism
It’s a big week for American Compass, a think tank founded in 2020 that fancies itself as the “pre-eminent alternative to the Old Right’s market fundamentalism.” On the heels of its new…
June 20, 2023
Down Through the Ages
…“No one is getting paid enough, there’s not adequate maternity leave, no one can afford hospital bills, most of us can’t afford a house—like, what did you think would happen?”…
June 16, 2023
The Missing Context Behind “Cuts” in Fast-Growing Welfare Programs
Official Washington just completed a heated debate on the debt limit, punctuated by intense partisan differences over strengthening work requirements for key welfare programs. On one side stood House Republicans,…
June 14, 2023
Why Behavioral Requirements Are Vital to Welfare Programs
…college, including the Futures Now program at Bronx Community College, or BCC. Despite a committed staff that made every effort to help students succeed, in 2016 before math remediation requirements…