Scott Winship and Kevin Corinth assess ongoing debates about the effectiveness of welfare reform. Welfare reform replaced Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) with Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF)…
Scott Winship counters a popular misconception about the American middle class. It’s a common refrain: The middle class is hollowing out; Americans overall are increasingly falling short financially while a…
Stephen Rose and Scott Winship puncture a popular myth about the disappearing American middle class. Populists on both the political left and right routinely claim that the middle class has…
Scott Winship of the American Enterprise Institute tackles misconceptions about the American economy. Sometimes it seems like Americans can’t decide whether we work too much or too little. We hear…
Scott Winship highlights interesting survey data about Americans’ perceptions of the American dream. [F]ive definitions fell short of a majority. These included “being middle class,” “becoming rich,” “owning your own…
Scott Winship of the American Enterprise Institute examines popular complaints about stagnating pay for American workers. Doomers on the political left and right agree that economic growth has failed to…
Scott Winship and Thomas O’Rourke highlight another case of experts misreading data to reach a false conclusion. The shock of the COVID-19 pandemic created urgent demand for “high frequency” national…
Scott Winship of the American Enterprise Institute critiques a new report targeting American poverty. Last week, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (henceforth, NAS) released a new “consensus…
Scott Winship of the American Enterprise Institute challenges reporting about a new study on children living in poverty. The New York Times … reported on a new child poverty study with…
Scott Winship of the American Enterprise Institute explores the factors driving many Americans away from work. Why are fewer prime-age Americans in the workforce? Many popular explanations attribute Americans’ declining…
Scott Winship writes for the Spotlight on Poverty website about the significance of new poverty numbers. The new poverty estimates indicate lower levels of hardship in 2019 than ever before,…
John Daniel Davidson writes at the Federalist website about the need to continue fighting a single-payer health care system. Many on the Left have seized on the failure of Ryan’s…