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December 1, 2023
Cities Use Covid Funds to Run Guaranteed-Income Experiments
…participant in the Alexandria program has cut back his work hours, swapping his paycheck for a government handout. Many likely will make the same choice over time. The pilot programs…
December 1, 2023
Red States Can Lead the Way on Marriage and Fatherhood
…could present as examples men who are actively engaged in their household, play with their children, and recognize their distinctive role in their children’s lives. Dads who make time to…
November 27, 2023
Bribing Homeowners To Build Tiny Houses Won’t Solve NYC’s Housing Problem
…time-honored outer-borough model of small apartments on second and third floors above stores — and relaxing parking requirements are both steps in the right direction, as even the liberal NYU…
November 27, 2023
For kids, marriage still matters
…is known as the success sequence. This three-pronged sequence encourages young adults to get at least a high school degree, work full time in their 20s, and marry before they…
November 27, 2023
How AI with “Theory of Mind” Could Help in the Workplace
…hints in real time. To a neurotypical person, this information might be distracting and unnecessary, but to people neurodivergent in various ways (e.g., individuals with autism or Asperger’s syndrome) or people with vision impairments, they could be…
November 21, 2023
Defining Poverty Up
…the OPM. Even worse, as my AEI colleague Kevin Corinth has shown, the SPM’s poverty guideline would grow rapidly over time, defining more American families as “in poverty” each passing year:…
November 17, 2023
Male Malaise Is Not Just About ‘the Culture’
…men (aged 25–35) who are working full-time fell from about 80 percent in the 1990s to less than 70 percent today. For men without college degrees, the fall in full-time…
November 16, 2023
“Harm Reduction” Is No Solution
…in November 2021. But administering naloxone to an addict whose heroin has been spiked with fentanyl does not tell us anything about the fate of that addict over time—“longitudinally,” as…
November 14, 2023
Did Child Poverty Really Increase Last Year?
…percent, an all-time low. But in 2022, it rose to 12.4 percent—essentially back to its 2019 rate. (As a side note, that 2019 rate was an all-time low at the…
November 13, 2023
The Jobless AI Future Is Still a Long Way Off
…we get up each day with the goal of bettering ourselves and our communities? Or would we fall to the darker angels of our nature, with unoccupied time leading to…