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Commentary
The Empty Threat That States Will Stop Operating SNAP
…these changes. Instead of motivating better operations and improved program integrity, they claim some states might pull the plug on SNAP altogether. Here’s a recent review by scholars at the…
Blog Post
Welfare Reform and Its Discontents
…the report in 2017, a year that also saw Democrats in the House and Senate sponsor child allowance bills. In 2018, Edin, Shaefer, and eight other influential scholars published an…
Testimony
Welfare Reform at 30: Major Effects and Lessons for Additional Reform
…is Matt Weidinger, and I am a Rowe Scholar in the Center for Opportunity and Social Mobility at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI). Before joining AEI, I served for over two decades on the staff of the…
Report
Wisconsin Childcare Subsidies, Regulations Fail for Families
…defined set of providers as current policy does, policymakers could explore account-based models that give families greater flexibility over childcare spending. Existing examples, such as Arizona’s Empowerment Scholarship Accounts or Florida’s education choice programs, show…
Op-Ed
The Cautionary Tale of Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan
…There are scholarships to schools that work, for one thing. Organizations like the Children’s Scholarship Fund support students at private schools — including many Catholic schools — with long records of helping…
Op-Ed
Thirty Years Later, Welfare Reform Is Still a Model That Works
…of the law and later a scholar at the Brookings Institution, “employment among these most disadvantaged mothers increased almost 40 percent over the four-year period beginning in 1996.” The real mean wage…
Article
The American Dream Lives in Suburbia
…for less money. Again, Harvard housing scholars can put this negatively, but in truth, a lot of people, especially parents, just want to live in a house with a yard…
Article
Compiling My Work on Work Incentives
…support enforcement, child tax credit, early childhood education, earned income tax credit, and higher education. Opportunity Book is a searchable database of federal policies from COSM scholars and affiliates to…
Commentary
Opportunity Book: A New Tool for Connecting Policymakers with Innovative Ideas
…federal policy ideas. Opportunity Book is a publicly available database that launches with 38 individual policies related to opportunity from 13 AEI scholars. The initial policies relate to child support…
Op-Ed
AI Changes NOTHING About What Students Need to Learn
…has yielded similar exhortations, the calls took on newfound fervor in the digital age. Back in 1989, former Assistant Secretary of Labor Arnold Packer, a Johns Hopkins scholar and co-author…
Commentary
What To Do About Benefit Cliffs?
…Scholars and senior fellows in poverty and opportunity studies at the American Enterprise Institute. Authors of the report “Stranded by the Safety Net: How to Fix the Benefit Cliff Problem”…
Op-Ed
What Could the New Federal Tuition Tax Credit Mean for School Choice?
…program actually launches in 2027. What kinds of scholarships can programs give? What expenses will scholarships be permitted to cover? Which states will opt in? How many students will be…