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Report
How States and Communities Can Strengthen Marriages
Family is the greatest source of social capital, providing the setting in which people grow, develop, and anchor their lives. Stable and healthy marriages are at the foundation of strong…
Report
The Chipping Away at Safe Haven Laws
…Ryan Hanlon, who heads the National Council for Adoption, told me, “Without additional information, why would we act to disrupt the decision the mother made in placing her child as…
Commentary
How Many Forms of “Wage Insurance” Do We Need, Exactly?
…Scott Winship, “A Safety Net for the Future: Overcoming the Root Causes of Poverty,” in American Renewal, ed. Paul Ryan and Angela Rachidi. Consider just some of the major social…
Op-Ed
College or Trade School? How About Both?
…premiums that previous generations enjoyed. Further, as economist Bryan Caplan has pointed out, the value of a degree is back-loaded, with almost all of the economic returns concentrated in the final year of…
Op-Ed
Elite Colleges Need to Offer Less Affirmation. And Insist on More Work.
…arrive, however, they hunt for professors with low expectations,” George Mason University economist Bryan Caplan noted in The Case Against Education. We need to reset expectations and incentives for students and…
Blog Post
Why We All Rely On the Organized Kindness of Strangers
…to their communities. . “The average American doesn’t realize all the things that churches do to make society less awful,” pastor and political scientist Ryan Burge, a professor at Eastern…
Blog Post
House Budget Plan Proposes Commonsense Welfare Changes
…Rachidi and former House Speaker Paul Ryan, was released last fall. A chapter in that volume authored by Rachidi, Scott Winship, and one of us (Matt Weidinger), titled “A Safety Net for the Future: Overcoming the…
Blog Post
American Dreamers
…head of domestic policy, Ryan Streeter, discussed his research on supporting economic dynamism across the country. Other AEI presentations focused on how people, technology, and skills are reshaping workforce development, sharing…
Blog Post
How the Middle Class Is Faring: My Long-Read Q&A with Jeremy Horpedahl
…that’s something that psychologists have identified. Economists have picked up on that Bryan Caplan in his book uses that as one of the biases that might drive people’s political decision-making….
Op-Ed
Personal Responsibility, Not Victimhood, Is the Path to Success
…As the economist Bryan Caplan commented, the causation between the success sequence and poverty is obvious: “‘Dropping out, idleness, and single parenthood make you poor’ is on par with ‘burning money…
Book
American Renewal: A Conservative Plan to Strengthen the Social Contract and Save the Country’s Finances
The purpose of American Renewal: A Conservative Plan to Strengthen the Social Contract and Save the Country’s Finances is to promote thoughtful and informed discussions, offer serious policy solutions, and…
Op-Ed
Dynamism as a Public Philosophy
…society can grow again — block by block, from the ground up, with eyes on the future. Ryan Streeter is the director of domestic-policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute….