The annual Social Security Trustees Report, released on Monday, confirms that the program is significantly underfunded. After decades of delay, Congress and the next president will need to take steps to restore Social Security's finances and improve Americans' retirement income security. Although it might seem counterintuitive, one positive step toward...

Retirees need better information about the Social Security earnings test, and policymakers should consider whether the earnings test makes sense at all.

Recent economic research suggests that colleges siphon off a significant portion of federal education aid rather than lowering costs to students

A new procedure improves on existing imputation methods in the labor earnings inequality literature.

In adopting the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, Congress acted hastily, without adequate thought, and apparently without an understanding of the problem it was seeking to address.

Minimum wage laws do harm in the short run and in the long run. People acquire lots of valuable human capital in their first jobs. The longer those first jobs are pushed out of reach, the longer it takes low-skill workers to develop crucial capacities that can put them on a promising career path.

What's on the horizon for taxes? AEI's Aparna Mathur weighs in with the House Small Business Committee.

Experts at a January 23 AEI conference questioned the value of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.