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Join AEI as an expert panel examines how changing the tax advantages for spending on health might lower health care spending, increase health-related social spending, and improve health outcomes.
Please join AEI as Jay Powell discusses why he considers housing finance reform a crucial component of post-financial-crisis reform.
Business leaders have long understood the importance of a well-educated workforce to support a strong economy, keep America competitive globally, and ensure a vibrant democracy.
President Trump’s visit to Poland, ahead of the G20 Summit, is chance for the US to seize the moment and strengthen US and NATO security in Eastern Europe.
Monitoring Xi Jinping’s policy on censorship can reveal a great deal about how the Communist Party will approach economic reform in China.
President Trump’s upcoming European trip might allow the President to further distance himself from the issue of Russian collusion and Vladimir Putin. At his speech in Poland, a country with a anti-Russia stance, the President will hear first-hand about Russia’s profound influence in the region. Discussions between Trump and Putin are said to focus on controlling North Korea and foreign policy, with both leaders likely to disagree on how to tackle conflict in the Middle East.
Hyman Minsky, the late US economist and expert in financial instability, would be dismayed to see Argentina placing a 100-year bond in the market.
Facebook has organically emerged as arguably the most attractive platform for patient groups to organize – despite the far more deliberate efforts of other companies and organizations that offer platforms aimed at bringing patients together.
Much of education policy is focused on finding effective ways to help the majority of students, especially those who struggle academically. Advanced learners are frequently left out of education reform conversations, even though talented students from disadvantaged backgrounds have lower achievement than they should.
Instead of increasing the share of Medicaid costs that the federal government picks up, it would make more sense to direct any additional federal resources to help people with low incomes get private insurance by providing those who need it with larger tax credits, or with money toward their deductibles.
North Korea claims they have successfully launched an intercontinental ballistic missile. This latest launch has experts worried that the regime of Kim Jung Un could have the technical capability to hit the United States, specifically Hawaii and Alaska. The question still remains, what should the United States due in order to stop the North Korean missile program.
The Trump White House released its salary records last Friday as required by Congress. The media (Roll Call and CNN) are reporting a 20% (and $20,700) gender pay gap at the Trump White House based on average salaries, when in fact the pay gap about twice that size (37% and $42,350) when gender differences in median salaries are compared.
