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

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

President Obama’s budget speech on Monday expanded on the theme of economic “fairness,” like his State of the Union speech in January. He lectured Americans that if critical steps are not taken, the rise of the middle class will be threatened and disparities between the rich and the rest will...

The following is a summary highlighting testimony by AEI Director of Economic Policy Studies Kevin Hassett to the Joint Economic Committee at a hearing entitled "How the Taxation of Capital Affects Growth and Employment."

Tax Analysts' Martin A. Sullivan recently sat down with Alex Brill, a research fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, to discuss his tax reform plan, which he hopes can win bipartisan support.

Kevin Hassett and Aparna Mathur note that high corporate tax rates reduce U.S. competitiveness and help explain why U.S. companies are moving plants abroad.

Different types of tax provisions shape effective marginal tax rates on income, andsome basic principles should govern the roles of these provisions in setting effective marginal tax rates.

All eyes were on AEI in April when House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.) came to AEI to unveil his plan to cut more than $4 trillion from the federal deficit.