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November 30, 2023
Evaluating the Success of the War on Poverty Since 1963 Using an Absolute Full-Income Poverty Measure
…to 1.6%. However, we also show that relative poverty reductions have been modest. Additionally, government dependence increased over this time, with the share of working-age adults receiving under half their…
November 30, 2023
Evaluating the Success of the War on Poverty since 1963 Using an Absolute Full-Income Poverty Measure
…to 1.6%. However, we also show that relative poverty reductions have been modest. Additionally, government dependence increased over this time, with the share of working-age adults receiving under half their…
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 20, 2023
The Next Time States Are “Swimming in Money” Make Them Repay Their Federal Loans
The pandemic was full of firsts, including the first time states received hundreds of billions of federal dollars they could use to shore up their depleted state unemployment insurance (UI) programs. The…
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 16, 2023
Work in a World of Abundance
…term, it’s very likely that this time is not different. Strain’s musings on the distant future are, to me, the more interesting part of his argument. What happens if AI achieves what…