Scott Winship
Scott Winship is a senior fellow and the director of the Center on Opportunity and Social Mobility at the American Enterprise Institute.
The Bad Math Behind Economic Doomerism
It’s not getting harder for families to purchase basic necessities.
Better Data Means Better Policy
The significance of the Census Bureau adopting a new method to measure inflation.
Can Men Still Bring Home the Bacon?
A new report on the marriageability of men counters populist conventional wisdom.
What a New Study Gets Wrong About Child Poverty and the Social Safety Net
It ignores the importance of economic factors and the benefits of welfare reform.
More on Why Income Increases Matter
Alternatively, note that Child Trends says that the safety net reduced poverty by 9.2 percent ...
Democrats’ Pandemic Response Was a Series of Missed Opportunities
Policymakers should have prioritized an Operation Warp Speed addressed at preventing widespread learning losses that could damage a generation of children.
How Democrats Are Using the Pandemic to Advance Long-Term Spending Priorities
Given that we staved off much hardship with early relief spending, anti-poverty policy clearly has gone further than was necessary.
How We Kept Poverty Down in 2020
Good public policy staved off hardship for many, but at a cost.
Is It Really Too Expensive to Raise a Family?
Politicians on both sides want to subsidize parenting. But declining fertility may simply be a result of the desire to have fewer children.
What a New Report Gets Wrong About Economic Inequality
The latest from American Compass uses less than ideal data and overstates the increase in inequality, among other problems.