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Report
How Policy and Demographics Are Reshaping SNAP: From Families with Children to Older Adults
…access to SNAP (Levin et al. 2020, 13, exhibit I-3). A 2020 study found that of five selected interventions, those to increase awareness and extend recertification periods for the elderly…
Op-ed
Compiling My Work on Work Incentives
…Understate the Costs of a Child Allowance?” American Enterprise Institute (December 16, 2021) https://www.aei.org/research-products/working-paper/did-a-national-academy-of-sciences-committee-on-poverty-reduction-overstate-the-benefits-and-understate-the-costs-of-a-child-allowance/ “Second Time’s the Charm?” with Yuval Levin, National Review (June 15, 2022) https://www.aei.org/op-eds/second-times-the-charm/ “How Much Would Creating a…
Blog Post
Young Men Aren’t Checked Out. We’ve Closed the Paths That Once Guided Them
…the institutions that once provided moral formation have weakened. As Yuval Levin has argued, American life has shifted from treating institutions as formative to treating them as mere platforms for performance—spaces…
Commentary
Hungary’s Fertility Outcomes Highlight Pro-Natal Policy Limitations
…spending is estimated to increase fertility by 0.2 children per woman. A recent review by economists Melissa Kearney and Philip Levine finds that policies providing income and housing to families…
Op-Ed
How Single Room Occupancies Could Be the Answer to NYC’s Housing Crisis
…“The Housing Maintenance Code does not allow housing with shared facilities as-of-right.” As attorney Patrick Sullivan, who follows housing law for the law firm Kramer, Levin, Natalie’s and Frankel, explains:…
Report
Family-Friendly Policies for the 119th Congress
Key Points American birth rates have hit record lows, but Americans still say they want children. Family formation seems unattainable to many parents. There is no single federal policy that…
Book
Doing Right by Kids: Leveraging Social Capital and Innovation to Increase Opportunity
…must. Chapters Available for Download Introduction: SCOTT WINSHIP, YUVAL LEVIN, AND RYAN STREETER Chapter 1: “Promoting Upward Mobility from the Starting Gate,” CHESTER E. FINN JR. Chapter 2: “Promoting Innovation…
Op-Ed
A New Lost Generation: Disengaged, Aimless, and Adrift
…wealth, or status. But as my AEI colleague Yuval Levin observed in a disquieting essay for The Dispatch a few years ago, disorderly lives now seem “less like exorbitant human desires driving people’s lives…
Op-Ed
Q&A: A Conservative Vision for Education
…feel about Trump or Biden. We do care a lot, though, about the wisdom of Edmund Burke and Russell Kirk and the insights of Roger Scruton and Yuval Levin. Because…
Op-Ed
The Past and Future of Education Reform
…American, the American Enterprise Institute’s Yuval Levin assessed the costs of the compromises the right had made to be part of the Bush-Obama education coalition. He observes of the result:…
Op-Ed
A Postcard from Ashkelon
…nation, as a light unto the nations and a refuge. Ethel Levine was a school teacher, a symphony lover, a mother, of course, but as much as anything she was…
Op-Ed
It Takes Two
…decline, Kearney does believe culture is important. She presents evidence from her clever 2015 study with Phillip B. Levine showing that exposure to the MTV show 16 and Pregnant lowered teen pregnancy rates. If…