In 2016, Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey and the Arizona state legislature launched a first-of-its-kind higher education reform: a mandate to the state’s (and America’s) largest public university to establish ...

There is an old Wall Street joke about a man jumping off the Empire State building. When asked at the fortieth floor how he was doing, he replied: “So far, so good”. We have ...

AEI is governed by a Board of Trustees, composed of leading business and financial executives. Daniel A. D’Aniello, ChairmanCofounder and Chairman EmeritusThe Carlyle Group Clifford S. AsnessManaging ...

In The Real Retirement Crisis: Why (Almost) Everything You Know About the US Retirement System Is Wrong, Andrew G. Biggs brings economic insights and hard data to bear on America’s retirement savings ...

Study time for full-time students at four-year colleges in the United States fell from twenty-four hours per week in 1961 to fourteen hours per week in 2003, and the decline is not explained by ...

Recent age data from the National Association of Realtors (NAR) appears to confirm that young FTBs are facing desperate times. Based on the NAR’s 2025 report Profile of Home Buyers and Sellers, it ...

American Enterprise Institute President Robert Doar awarded renowned historian and professor of history emeritus at Brown University, Gordon S. Wood, the highest honor bestowed by the Institute, on ...

What’s New: Global electricity demand, which saw a moderate increase in 2023, is expected to rise more sharply through 2026, driven by emerging economies and, reportedly, will be met entirely by clean ...

In 1991 Nobel economist Milton Friedman (pictured above giving a talk at AEI, exact year unknown) was interviewed by Emmy Award-winning drug reporter Randy Paige on “America’s Drug Forum,” a national ...

Master’s degrees have gained a reputation as “the new bachelor’s degrees,” a moniker that reinforces the idea that the degree is a path to higher wages. Researchers have historically neglected to ...

Evidence shows that the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), like other means-tested programs, reduces employment levels among those eligible. Work requirements in SNAP are one tool to ...

The US agricultural sector—especially farms producing labor-intensive crops such as fruits, vegetables, and horticultural products—relies on unauthorized immigrants to perform many seasonal and ...