Commentary
COSM’s commentary page is home to timely analysis on in the news topics.
COSM’s Commentary is edited and published by AEI’s Center on Opportunity and Social Mobility. AEI’s opportunity and social mobility scholars research and develop evidence-based policies aimed at expanding opportunity in America, reducing entrenched poverty, increasing upward mobility, closing opportunity gaps facing disadvantaged children, and renewing America’s associational life. Our scholarship spans economic well-being, poverty, income, living standards, early childhood development, education, employment, intergenerational mobility, and social capital trends including deaths of despair and family formation. Throughout, our work is attentive to trade-offs, unintended consequences, the strengths of the market, and the importance of work and family. For more of AEI’s work on opportunity and social mobility, please explore AEI’s Center on Opportunity and Social Mobility.
Articles in the Series
What Do You Call an Automatic Stabilizer that Doesn’t Shrink When Conditions Improve? The Biden Food Stamps Blowout
Household Food Insecurity Rises Again—Inflation, Especially for Households Ineligible for Safety Net Programs, to Blame
Social Conservatives Who Care About Marriage Should Think Twice About a “Per-Child” Refundable Child Tax Credit
Addressing the False Claims from Industry Groups on Pilot Testing SNAP Restrictions
Options for Improving the Child Tax Credit Provisions in H.R. 7024, the Tax Relief for American Families and Workers Act of 2024
CTC Expansion Rooted in Desire to Roll Back Work-Based Welfare
Another Flawed Analysis Shows That Single Mothers Are Highly Sensitive to Changes in Work Incentives
Research by a Top Biden Administration Economist Reinforces the Importance of Work Incentives in the Child Tax Credit and the Safety Net
The Wyden-Smith Child Tax Credit and Work: Responding to Critics
How Sensitive Are Single Mothers’ Work Decisions to a Change in Incentives? Correcting Misperceptions of the Evidence
Has Inequality Made Americans Poorer Than Bulgarians, Russians, and Filipinos?
Changing the Official Poverty Measure Would Help Rich States and Hurt Poor States
About the Center on Opportunity & Social Mobility
The Center on Opportunity and Social Mobility (COSM) conducts rigorous research and develops evidence-based policies aimed at expanding opportunity in America by reducing entrenched poverty, increasing upward mobility, and rebuilding social capital. In doing so, COSM is attentive to trade-offs, unintended consequences, the strengths of markets, and the importance of work and family. COSM champions personal responsibility and agency while acknowledging external barriers to achievement.