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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….
November 17, 2022
American Renewal: Launching a New Conservative Policy Book with Paul Ryan and Angela Rachidi
…issues are not intractable or unsolvable. The reforms contained in American Renewal, drawing on insights from subject matter experts, offer policymakers concrete proposals to restore the government’s promise to Americans…
November 3, 2022
Child Poverty: Trends and Outlook
…Duke Charitable Foundation, was moderated by Aparna Mathur, Senior Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School’s Mossavar-Rahmani Center. The panelists were Dana Thomson of Child Trends, Samuel Hammond of the Niskanen Center;…
September 30, 2022
Off Track: An Assessment of Wisconsin’s Early Care and Learning System for Young Children
…parents supply children with the most crucial material treasure they ever will receive — a stable, loving home — many rely on some outside help in caring for their children…
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…
January 20, 2022
Testimony: Incentivize Individual Agency to Achieve Upward Mobility
…needed remediation in math and reading – if they did go to college. We cannot ignore that the racial disparities we are seeking to close originated long before they show…