The U.S. Committee for Human Rights in North Korea (HRNK) and AEI will be launching a new HRNK report entitled, “Marked For Life: Songbun, North Korea’s Social Classification System,” which will be discussed at this event. The panel will also examine the extent to which the growing reliance on money and bribery is eroding the songbun system’s influence.

Declarations of the Race to the Top's revolutionary impact are both premature and drastically inflated.

This was the worst jobs report since last October. The economy added 120,000 jobs in March, about half the pace of the previous three months.

This second Education Stimulus Watch reports on the key education portions of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act by tracking their contributions to the legislation's three points of leverage for reform.

Medicare is facing a fiscal calamity: how can the growth of Medicare spending be limited while ensuring that beneficiaries continue to have access to affordable health care?

Through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, the federal government will spend an unprecedented amount of money on education--nearly $100 billion. Will this money lead to meaningful reform of our K-12 public education system?

The Obama administration is going all out to attract Chinese companies to invest in the U.S., but at the same time, it has rebuffed the efforts of the Chinese telecoms giant Huawei to obtain contracts with major U.S. Internet providers or to take over U.S. telecom companies. At this event, a panel of experts will analyze the issues from both an economic and a security perspective.

This event will examine more radical reforms that — while aiming to accomplish the same goals as the current Social Security program — would do so through fundamentally different structures.