AEI This Week
Jun 27, 2020
AEI's weekly digest of top commentary and scholarship on the issues that matter most
 
 
The power of personal agency
 
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Twenty20
 
Our nation’s educators must help black girls and boys cultivate a sense of personal agency and convince them that their deliverance is determined more by their own actions than by the incantations of a newly enlightened majority, writes Ian Rowe.
 
 
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Income and poverty in the COVID-19 pandemic
 
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Jeehoon Han, Bruce Meyer, and James Sullivan provide timely and accurate information on how the COVID-19 pandemic affects income and poverty to inform the targeting of resources to those most affected and assess the success of current efforts.
 
 
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Jacobinism in Golden Gate Park
 
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Gregory Weiner writes that the mob that toppled monuments to Junipero Serra, Francis Scott Key, and Ulysses S. Grant would compress past, present, and future into the almighty now.
 
 
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Surprise medical bills: How to protect patients and make care more affordable
 
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Benedic Ippolito, David Hyman, and Charles Silver argue that policymakers can use contract-forcing regulation to make hospitals behave more like body shops — and prevent the majority of surprise bills.
 
 
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Winship on social capital and why race and place matter in achieving the American dream
 
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In the inaugural episode of "The Deep Dive," host John Lettieri sits down with Scott Winship to discuss the latest research on social capital in the United States, the persistence of the “opportunity gap” between black and white children, and how place exerts a profound influence over a child’s life outcomes.
 
 
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Research Spotlight
 
 
Implications of the COVID-19 pandemic for state government tax revenues
 
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Jeffrey Clemens and Stan Veuger estimate that the economic declines implied by the Congressional Budget Office's forecasts will lead to a shortfall of roughly $106 billion in states’ sales and income tax revenues for the 2021 fiscal year.
 
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