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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…

November 21, 2024

A Consensus on Common-Sense Education Reform

…economist Michael Strain, here at AEI.) The report is short, only about 30 pages, and quite readable. If you have an interest in possible solutions to some of the biggest…

January 12, 2024

When It Comes to the State of the American Economy, Let’s Keep It Real

…increase from eight percent in 1960. Then there’s research by my AEI colleague Michael Strain that found income inequality across all households—after accounting for taxes and government transfers and estimated with a Gini…

August 22, 2023

Is Paid Leave a Pro-Growth Policy?

…of some problem in the market), and benefit some groups at the expense of others.  Indeed, as my AEI colleague Michael Strain has written, “Such micromanagement would almost surely result in…

August 21, 2023

Four Shocking Truths about the American Economy! (Well, Shocking to Some.)

…productivity growth and wage growth: “The Link Between Productivity and Wages Is Strong” by Michael R. Strain But this next chart tells a radically different story about productivity and pay,…