AEI This Week
Jun 29, 2019
AEI's weekly digest of top commentary and scholarship on the issues that matter most
 
 
Busting the college-industrial complex
 
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The use of the college degree as a default hiring device is the biggest and most significant barrier to employment in American life, write Frederick Hess and J. Grant Addison.
 
 
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The FDA’s challenge on e-cigarettes
 
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Scott Gottlieb explains that the Food and Drug Administration has the challenging task of maintaining e-cigarettes as a smoking cessation tool while reducing their harm to minors.
 
 
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People problems between the Gulf and the Horn of Africa
 
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The movement of people across the Red Sea corridor is a destabilizing force in the domestic politics of countries like Ethiopia. As Saudi Arabia continues to calibrate its labor and immigration policies to increase employment among nationals, the ripple effects are reaching the other side of the Red Sea, writes Karen Young.
 
 
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Trump was right not to strike Iran, and his strategy is working
 
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By not taking the bait, Trump has shown that all escalation is on the Iranian side, writes Marc Thiessen.
 
 
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Use real-world data, not international reference pricing, to set US drug prices
 
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Using real-world evidence to get better information for price negotiations isn’t perfect, but tying pharmaceutical prices to what others pay outside the US isn’t either. Kirsten Axelsen explains that examining health care data and assessing value in practice would benefit patients and budgets.
 
 
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Toward meaningful price transparency in health care
 
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Numerous public and private efforts are now underway to make pricing more transparent and usable, writes James Capretta, but the federal government is the only entity with power and regulatory reach to redirect how the market functions.
 
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