Can Anything Really Be Done About Family Breakdown and American Poverty? A...
A recent Equality of Opportunity Project study of economic mobility highlighted the importance of healthy families. “The fraction of children living in single-parent households is the strongest...
View ArticleSocial Mobility in America: Still the Land of Opportunity?
For America to remain the land of opportunity, we must address stagnant social mobility. Social mobility is highly correlated with residential segregation, education, labor market opportunities, and...
View ArticleThe US Needs Better Roads and Bridges–and Less Congestion–but Not a Higher...
Republicans outraged the US has the highest corporate tax rate among advanced economies should be equally upset about America’s subpar national transportation system. For instance: the most recent...
View ArticleWhat Do Americans Want to Do About Income Inequality?
Lots of interesting results from a new Bloomberg poll including: — 44% approval rating for President Obama — 64% of Americans think the nation is on the wrong track — By 58% to 31%, Americans see the...
View ArticleLet’s Help Americans Move to Where the Jobs Are
The list of supposed inequalities among Americans is long, and getting longer: income inequality, food inequality, housing inequality, education inequality, and even death inequality. Many see unequal...
View Article‘Abandoned’ Review: No Foothold on a Future
To become adults and arrive at economic independence, Anne Kim writes, young people first “need to have met their basic needs for shelter, food and safety.” It’s an interesting and, in one reading, a...
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Schools Won’t Work Any Better for Disadvantaged Children After COVID Than...
Last week I participated in a National Press Foundation briefing, “Closing the COVID Inequality Gap,” convened to examine the impact of widespread school shutdowns on disadvantaged children. My...
View ArticleInnovations in Mobility
In this week’s episode of Tech Enabled, we’re joined by Jessica Robinson Co-founder Michigan Mobility Institute, Detroit Mobility Lab, and partner at Assembly Ventures who helps us understand the...
View ArticleBiden’s Executive Order on Housing: Replacing Old Sins with New Ones
President Biden’s flurry of executive orders has now extended to housing policy — and to a pledge to reverse the Trump administration’s approach to “fair housing.” Specifically, that would mean...
View ArticleRelationships, Race, Kids, and Place: Reviving the American Dream
The time is ripe for thinking more creatively about a conservative opportunity agenda. The nation has made great strides reducing poverty, but upward mobility has not improved over the past half...
View ArticleFrom Idea to Interstate: Getting More Autonomous Vehicles on the Road (with...
Autonomous vehicles (AVs) are gaining traction in states where regulations encourage advanced technology to ride alongside traditional transportation. But in areas where AVs are in everyday traffic,...
View ArticleGetting More Autonomous Vehicles on the Road: Highlights from My Conversation...
By Shane Tews Autonomous vehicles (AVs) are gaining traction in states where regulations allow. But as AVs enter the roadway, issues like driver safety and data collection are under the spotlight. For...
View ArticleEpisode 363: When Shadows Fall
Scott Winship, Director of Poverty Studies at the American Enterprise Institute, joins Jonah to discuss the history of poverty in the United States. The pair begin by digging into a new report from...
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Free to Move: Foot Voting, Migration, and Political Freedom
Event Summary On March 22, AEI’s Stan Veuger hosted George Mason University’s Ilya Somin for a discussion of Mr. Somin’s book “Free to Move: Foot Voting, Migration, and Political Freedom” (Oxford...
View ArticleStreets of Gold: America’s Untold Story of Immigrant Success
Event Summary On June 7, AEI’s Stan Veuger hosted Princeton University’s Leah Boustan to discuss her book Streets of Gold: America’s Untold Story of Immigrant Success (PublicAffairs, 2022). Dr....
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A Real Rural Future
One of the far-too-often repeated statements made by urban, coastal elites is that one’s future cannot be found in the countryside. These city-centered Americans often believe that economic growth,...
View ArticleA Real Rural Future
One of the far-too-often repeated statements made by urban, coastal elites is that one’s future cannot be found in the countryside. These city-centered Americans often believe that economic growth,...
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Agency: A Book Event with Ian Rowe and Yuval Levin
Event Summary On June 3, AEI’s Ian Rowe and Yuval Levin discussed Mr. Rowe’s new book, Agency: The Four Point Plan (F.R.E.E.) for All Children to Overcome the Victimhood Narrative and Discover Their...
View ArticleState of the Capital Region 2022: Commuting Patterns and Transportation...
By Jaclene Begley, Leah Brooks, Brian J. McCabe, Jenny Schuetz, and Stan Veuger Executive Summary One of the key policy challenges in urban areas is how to facilitate people moving across space:...
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The New Book ‘Streets of Gold’ Shatters Myths as It Makes the Case for a...
By James Pethokoukis Streets of Gold: America’s Untold Story of Immigrant Success by economists Ran Abramitzky (Stanford University) and Leah Boustan (Princeton University) is a book that I’m sure is...
View ArticleHow Do You Know When It’s Time to Leave a Neighborhood, a State, or a Country?
When is it time to leave — a neighborhood, a state or a country? In “Leopoldstadt,” the new play by Tom Stoppard that opened on Broadway last month, the reluctance to pull up stakes proved tragic. The...
View ArticleAgency over equity: Ian Rowe on a better vision for upward mobility
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The Success Sequence for Unmarried Mothers
As covered on these pages before, the success sequence—graduating high school, working full-time, and marrying before having children—has been proven to be an effective way for young people to avoid...
View ArticleResearch by a Top Biden Administration Economist Reinforces the Importance of...
For the past two years, economist Jacob Bastian has been the main researcher dedicated to trumpeting the virtues of a child tax credit (CTC) expansion. Writing first as an economist from academic...
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