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A Long-Term Approach to Human Flourishing

Kristie Eshelman | January 31, 2014 | Poverty

“Opportunity is who we are.” So said President Obama in this Tuesday’s State of the Union address. Whenever I listen to the President speak, I’m always struck at how many isolated statements I agree with even as I am vehemently disagreeing with others. As far as I...

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Kristie Eshelman

Kristie Eshelman is the regional digital coordinator at Generation Opportunity.

SOTU Reaction: President Obama Doesn’t Know His History

Nicholas Freiling | January 30, 2014 | Economics

In his State of the Union address this Tuesday, President Obama talked a lot about the economy. He talked a lot about jobs and easing the financial burden many American families face. But he made a disturbing comment that reveals a total misunderstanding of basic...

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Nicholas Freiling

Nick Freiling is Founder/Director of Haven Insights, a DC-based market research firm.

Think Twice Before Extending Unemployment Insurance

Jessica Rabe | January 13, 2014 | Economics

During a recent weekly address, President Obama called for Congress to reinstate jobless benefits (affecting 1.3 million Americans) for three months. According to Obama, unemployment insurance is a “vital economic lifeline,” and without it, the economy will slow for...

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Jessica Lynn Rabe is a research associate at ConvergEx Group, a global brokerage company based in New York.

A War on Income Inequality Is a Bad Idea

Tyler Castle | January 8, 2014 | Society

Today marks the 50th anniversary of Lyndon B. Johnson’s 1964 State of the Union address, in which he declared his famous “War on Poverty.” Fifty years later, President Obama has effectively declared a similar war on income inequality, which he believes “is the...

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Tyler Castle is the director of AEI's Initiative on Faith & Public Life. He is a graduate of Westmont College and a former John Jay Institute Fellow.

Why Sluggish Recovery Is the Real Problem, Not Recession

Jessica Rabe | January 7, 2014 | Economics

Neil Shah of the Wall Street Journal recently published an article analyzing Census data gathered by demographer William Frey from the Brookings Institution. Frey reports that the U.S. population grew by the weakest rate of growth since after the Great Depression...

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Jessica Lynn Rabe is a research associate at ConvergEx Group, a global brokerage company based in New York.