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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,…
August 9, 2023
The CTC Work Incentive Works
…a proponent of the CTC Sen. Michael Bennet cited statistics claiming that nearly 80 percent of those affected by the expiration of the expanded CTC were already working. He went on…
August 7, 2023
Union Square Melee Proves Riots Have Little to Do with Real Political Grievances
…police homicides of George Floyd in Minneapolis and Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo. There’s always been a significant part of the crowd that is, in Harvard social scientist Edward Banfield’s…
July 26, 2023
How Worker Benefits Turn into Welfare
…same guaranteed minimum benefit in each state, again regardless of any individual’s prior earnings. Supporters argue the uniform payments protected systems straining under record claims. They have a point that…
July 21, 2023
Can Spain Defuse Its Depopulation Bomb?
…highest percentage of old people in the world.” This demographic shift will put severe strains on the Spanish economy as its labour force shrinks and the government struggles to support…
July 19, 2023
Adams’ Smart Migrant Move Could Help the City’s Overburdened Shelters—and Migrants Themselves
…Detroit—where an incredible one of every five homes stands vacant—are in desperate need of newcomers, to repair and revive the city. Former Mayor Michael Bloomberg had it right in 2011 when…
July 13, 2023
Republicans Step Up to Lead on Higher Education Reform
…that would increase transparency in the process of shopping and paying for college education, constrain borrowing for graduate school to affordable levels, and implement sensible changes to the system of…
July 12, 2023
Local News and Social Capital
Joseph Schumpeter famously observed that capitalism unleashed “creative destruction.”[i] If that is so for American journalism, just such a wave has, without doubt, been destroying local newspapers. What’s not yet clear…
June 30, 2023
Democrats Call Biden’s Economy “Savage” in Attempt to Revive Child Tax Credit
…recent Senate Finance Committee hearing, Sen. Michael Bennet (D-CO) thundered that parents are currently “scraping by … in this savage economy,” burdened with “some of the lowest economic mobility” and “almost the…