December 23, 2025
The Policy Lessons from Minnesota’s Massive Welfare Fraud
Numerous reviewers have spotlighted shocking welfare fraud perpetrated by members of the Somali community in…
November 19, 2025
Real Estate Red Flag: How Hidden Blue-State Policies are Pricing Out Homeowners
A telling new analysis of rising home maintenance costs from the real estate listing service Zillow, in…
October 23, 2025
Childcare Regulation Limits Choice and Opportunity
Regulation limits many aspects of opportunity and upward mobility. While analysts have highlighted the adverse…
October 21, 2025
Childcare Regulation and Affordability
In recent decades, childcare costs have outpaced family incomes and put pressure on family
budgets. Legislators typically consider government subsidies to be the primary solution to rising
costs, despite the high cost of broadly subsidizing care and possible adverse effects on families
and children. Yet policymakers have paid little attention to how existing regulations limit childcare
supply and increase costs, despite research emphasizing this relationship.
September 25, 2025
The Golden Age of Public Housing—and Why It Didn’t Last
If Americans have any shared image of public housing, it is one of dilapidated and…
September 25, 2025
Three Levers to Unlock 1.5 Million Homes a Year
Earlier this month, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the AEI Housing Center released Strong Foundations:…
September 24, 2025
Subsidized Housing and Upward Mobility
In 1983, Harvard scholars Mary Jo Bane and David Ellwood sought to determine the length…
September 23, 2025
A Second Reconciliation Bill Should Focus On Reducing Deficits
Republicans on Capitol Hill are starting to debate a second budget bill, following the One…
