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September 11, 2024
Doing Right by Kids: A Book Event
Event Summary On September 11, AEI’s Scott Winship gathered distinguished experts to launch the new edited volume Doing Right by Kids: Leveraging Social Capital and Innovation to Increase Opportunity, a call…
September 10, 2024
America is Still Working
…of People with Disabilities (Washington, DC: AEI Press, 2011). [37] Scott Winship, “How to Fix Disability Insurance,” National Affairs, 2015, https://www.nationalaffairs.com/publications/detail/how-to-fix-disability-insurance. Scott Winship, “Declining Prime-Age Male Labor Force Participation: Why…
September 10, 2024
Event: New Census Data on American Families’ Economic Well-Being
…in poverty when it comes to educational levels. And AEI’s Scott Winship examined the evidence behind the consistent decline in consumption poverty. The panel also discussed predictions for 2024 and…
August 29, 2024
The Distribution of Social Capital across Individuals and its Relationship to Income
Abstract There have been several attempts to measure social capital—the value inhering in relationships—at an aggregate level, but researchers lack comprehensive individual-level social capital measures. Using a combination of direct…
August 5, 2024
Are Opportunity Zones an Effective Place-Based Policy?
…of the bill were being drafted and debated. It was only when Senator Tim Scott (R-South Carolina) pushed for their inclusion, along with Congressional leaders and later President Trump, that…
July 26, 2024
Two Cheers for Shrinking Black-White Opportunity Gaps
The latest in a series of important reports on social mobility by the research group Opportunity Insights is out, and it’s another conversation-changer. Across a variety of outcomes in adulthood…
July 11, 2024
Exploring Trends in Food Bank Use
…ask nearly identical questions, results from the HPS can differ substantially from the FSS. For example, a 2021 report by one of us (Rachidi, with co-author Scott Winship) demonstrated the…
June 18, 2024
Economic Opportunity and Social Mobility
Years ago, I worked at the Pew Charitable Trusts on something called the Economic Mobility Project. In 2009, we commissioned a survey covering opportunity, mobility, and the American Dream. One…
June 13, 2024
The Family-to-Prison-or-College Pipeline: Married Fathers and Young Men’s Transition to Adulthood
…million to Reeves’ American Institute for Boys and Men to address this male malaise. Public intellectuals like Reeves, Scott Galloway, and Jonathan Haidt have blamed the falling fortunes of young men on…
May 20, 2024
Indivar Dutta-Gupta and Scott Winship on the 60th Anniversary of LBJ’s “War on Poverty” on C-SPAN’s “Washington Journal”
Indivar Dutta-Gupta and Scott Winship talked about the 60th anniversary of President Lyndon B. Johnson’s “Great Society” speech and the war on poverty….