AEI This Week
Feb 01, 2020
AEI's weekly digest of top commentary and scholarship on the issues that matter most
 
 
We need to prepare for US outbreak of Wuhan coronavirus
 
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Reuters
 
Even though there’s a lot that we don’t know about the novel coronavirus that’s burning its way through China, there are some critical assumptions we should make about its continued spread, writes Scott Gottlieb.
 
 
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Trump’s unkept fiscal and spending promises
 
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Reuters
 
James Capretta explains that despite his campaign promise to lower the federal deficit, the federal government under President Donald Trump has incurred an increasing amount of debt.
 
 
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Of course Trump’s tariffs hurt US manufacturing
 
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Twenty20
 
New research suggests President Donald Trump's tariffs on Chinese imports are hurting the manufacturing workers and industries they were supposed to help, writes Michael Strain.
 
 
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Fact-check: Do 40 percent of retirees rely on Social Security for their entire income?
 
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Twenty20
 
The National Institute for Retirement Security’s claim that “a plurality of older Americans, 40.2 percent, only receive income from Social Security in retirement” is incorrect, concludes Andrew Biggs.
 
 
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On Kobe Bryant and Felicia Sonmez: Twitter mobs and cancel culture infect The Washington Post
 
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Caving to social media mobs is something the newspaper editors do, writes Timothy Carney. And now, we see that includes Marty Baron, who on Sunday suspended reporter Felicia Sonmez for her tweets, which stirred up an angry mob.
 
 
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Employment and job-training reform: A framework for policy and practice
 
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Twenty20
 
To demonstrate attempts at rationalizing frag­mented federal employment and job-training deliv­ery on the ground, Mason Bishop's report examines three states at different places on the spectrum.
 
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