Tag: AEI

Is the spike in federal revenue permanent? (Kyle Pomerleau, AEI)

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) recently published its monthly budget review for September, now estimating a spike in federal tax receipts for the 2021 fiscal year....

Unemployment insurance at a crossroads: Tracing program design during and beyond COVID-19 (Amy Simon, AEI)

The COVID-19-related emergency policy interventions in the unemployment insurance (UI) system1 unfolded quickly and will have long-lasting ramifications. While the Great Recession produced modest policy...

A reset for assessment: Toward a less burdensome accountability system (Jack Buckley, AEI)

Standardized educational assessments are often criticized as overly burdensome, competing for vital instructional time and narrowing the curriculum to what is tested. They are...

The divided state of our unions (W. Bradford Wilcox, Lyman Stone, Wendy Wang, Jason Carroll, AEI)

Where is the American family headed as COVID-19 finally seems to be abating? Focusing on family formation in the United States, this report considers...

Invoking Big Tech as an accusation can endanger American security (Klon Kitchen, AEI)

Could Congress’s antitrust campaign against Big Tech derail America’s strategic competition with China? A bipartisan collection of senior national security leaders — including a...

House reconciliation bill struggles with Biden’s flawed $400,000 tax pledge (Alan D. Viard, AEI)

During his successful presidential campaign last year, Joe Biden made a sweeping and misguided pledge about his tax plan: “Nobody making under 400,000 bucks would have...

How do we make sense of the new poverty data for 2020? (Angela Rachidi, AEI)

Few things are more frustrating than when the government releases statistics that require an explanation from technical experts for anyone to make sense of...

Prioritize long-range nuclear limits (John D. Maurer, AEI)

Great-power arms control negotiations are back on the table as the United States and Russia prepare for new “strategic stability talks" following the Joe...

USA. The future of the American city: My long-read Q&A with Ed Glaeser (James Pethokoukis, AEI)

America’s cities have been hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic, fueling predictions of prolonged urban flight and decline. “Cities are over,” we are being...

Privacy Laws/International Trade. Are privacy laws compatible with international trade? Highlights from my conversation with Nigel Cory (Shane Tews, AEI)

As countries impose new requirements on data collection and governance, the flow of consumer data between countries and business entities is becoming more restricted...

TechInnovation/USA/Afghanistan. Lessons learned from the government’s failure to understand technology’s power (Shane Tews, AEI)

Taliban soldiers stand in front of protesters during a demonstration in Kabul, Afghanistan, September 7, 2021, via Reuters Following the United States’ withdrawal from Afghanistan,...

USA/China – Four years ago today we had a China policy (AEI)

Derek Scissors On August 18, 2017, early in Donald Trump’s presidency, the US launched a Section 301 investigation of Chinese policies concerning intellectual property and technology....

USA – President Biden’s overreach on SNAP (AEI)

Angela Rachidi This week, President Biden’s administration increased the benefit levels for recipients of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), or “food stamps,” by more than 20...

Afghanistan/USA – Why the Afghan army folded (AEI)

Kori Schake The United States has spent $83 billion training, equipping, and even paying Afghanistan’s security forces since 2001, a mammoth amount. As the events...

USA – Doubling Pell Grants makes sense — if Biden ditches the rest of his higher ed agenda (AEI)

Elizabeth “Beth” Akers, Frederick M. Hess Over the last several years, the Warren-Sanders wing of the Democratic Party has succeeded at reshaping the higher education...

USA/Afghanistan – Why Joe Biden’s Afghanistan speech was a disaster (AEI)

Michael Rubin President Joe Biden addressed the nation on the unfolding tragedy in Afghanistan. He was unrepentant. “I Do Not Regret My Decision,” he declared. His speech...