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March 20, 2025

Homesteading 2.0: A Proposal to Make Housing Affordable Again

…a.m. Panel II. How Homesteading 2.0 Can Bring Economic Growth and Affordability to the West Panelists: Michael Burkentine, Co-Owner, Burkentine Real Estate Group 11:30 a.m. Q&A 11:45 a.m. Lunch and…

March 17, 2025

How State Policymakers Can Save the Nuclear Family

…Fellow at the Institute for Family Studies and a nonresident senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. Michael Pugh, a research associate at the American Enterprise Institute, contributed to this…

March 11, 2025

The American Dream in Ohio depends on stronger Buckeye families

The “American dream” is a “better, richer and happier life for all our citizens of every rank,” wrote the historian James Truslow Adams over a century ago. Yet with ordinary Americans succumbing to “deaths…

January 14, 2025

Unprotected From Porn

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January 14, 2025

The Pornography Industry Should Not Be Allowed This Much Access to Our Children

…Young University and a Fellow of the Wheatley Institute, Michael Toscano is a Senior Fellow and the Director of the Family First Technology Initiative at the Institute for Family Studies….

January 8, 2025

Menu Adjustment in Response to the Minimum Wage: A Return to the New Jersey-Pennsylvania Border

Abstract This paper studies how output prices are affected by increases in the minimum wage. To the best of our knowledge, we provide the first examination of how the prices…

December 17, 2024

Industrial Policy and Deficits: Dark Clouds for Democratic Capitalism

Democratic capitalism is a system that marries liberal democracy and free-market capitalism. This union creates tensions, and requires balancing competing aims. But this tension is healthy, not destructive — provided…

December 5, 2024

More High-Skill Immigration Is Popular. Let’s Act on That

…last summer, whose authors include numerous academics and think tankers, including AEI economist Michael Strain: One obvious policy solution is to stop sending away foreign-born graduates of American colleges and…

December 5, 2024

Inflation Reduction Act Offers a General Lesson against Industrial Policy

With President Trump’s stunning return to power, Congress has the opportunity in 2025 to enact additional business tax cuts. One of their specific goals should be to make “full expensing”…

December 4, 2024

Back to Basics: America’s Founding, Civics, and Self-Government in K-12 Curricula

…and Leadership, University of North Carolina; Brian V. Kennedy, International Union of Bricklayers and Allied Craftworkers; and Michael Weiser, Chair of the Board of Directors, Jack Miller Center. The panel…