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June 26, 2024
Reducing Racial Disparities in Foster Care Might Endanger Black Children
…suffer? Now Minnesota is dispensing with blunt instruments. Last month, the governor signed a law to codify different standards for the investigation, substantiation and removal processes for disparately affected populations —…
June 18, 2024
A Unified Theory of Education
…create new ones. Whether old or new, though, there are certain characteristics that good institutions share. First, they are personal. The past century has featured ambitious attempts to standardize American…
June 18, 2024
Economic Opportunity and Social Mobility
…people’s income relative to that of their parents in two ways. The first measures an individual’s and his parents’ standard of living. This kind of mobility is known as “absolute…
June 18, 2024
Donald Trump is an Outlier on the Right: When It Comes to Fidelity and Marriage, Democrats Face Bigger Problems
…the Republican standard bearer’s marital misbehavior eroded our collective commitment to the values and virtues that sustain the institution of marriage? On the left, journalist Matt Yglesias wondered if Trump’s bad example…
June 15, 2024
Reimagining Early Education
…has burdened providers and early childhood educators with a thicket of regulations. Compliance with many of these rules and standards drives up costs and empowers interest groups without doing much…
June 13, 2024
A Deal to Trump Student Loans
…For a long time, the Republican stance on student loans was to “increase them just like the Democrats want, except a little bit less than the Democrats want.” We can’t…
June 6, 2024
How New Graduates Can Thrive in a Workplace Dominated by AI
…ahead. From the standpoint of jobs and careers, AI is the biggest unknown. Right now, the impact of AI is like a rumor: something big but undefined is coming and…
June 4, 2024
What Comes After Neoliberalism?
…fiscal responsibility. The inflation to which it contributed is a major headwind in his quest for re-election. Finally, Biden’s regulatory agenda rejects the consumer-welfare standard in competition policy in favor of a…
May 30, 2024
Building a High Tech Workforce for the Future
…to retrain as AI use specialists. In March, at a meeting organized by NYU economist Dr. Julia Lane, AEI, and Stanford University’s Digital Economy Lab, a workshop of senior economists…
May 21, 2024
Did AI Just Pass the Turing Test?
…in the UC San Diego study is that it clearly identifies what constitutes true human-level intelligence. It isn’t mastery of advanced calculus or another challenging technical field. Instead, what stands…