Join us at the Aspen Institute’s DC offices for a talk with @MikeGeruso and Dean Spears on their forthcoming book “After the Spike,” which makes the case for why we should care about global population decline.
Join the AESG on July 9th at 9:30am ET for a conversation w/ @MikeGeruso & Dean Spears on their book, "After the Spike: Population, Progress, and the Case for People." Register here:
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Incredibly proud to announce this year’s new and returning members of the Aspen Economic Strategy Group (@AspenEcon) today.
I’m excited to work with this bipartisan group to advance evidence-based economic policy.
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I’m excited to work with this bipartisan group to advance evidence-based economic policy.
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The data out in today’s @NAEP_NCES Nation’s Report Card paints a dire picture of educational progress among America’s young students.
The 67% of eighth-graders who scored at a basic or better reading level in 2024 was the lowest share since testing began in 1992 on.wsj.com/3ChOfRV
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On a hopeful note, there are evidence-based solutions to address pandemic-induced learning loss:
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Jens Ludwig and Jonathan Guryan @UChiUrbanLabs highlight High-Dosage Tutoring in particular as an evidence-based path to get students back on track:
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From @ProfDavidDeming and @LHSummers @AspenEcon paper “Technological Disruption in the US Labor Market”
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America is replacing bad jobs with good jobs.
From 2016 to 2022, high-skilled jobs soared while low-skill and mid-skill jobs vanished. Overall employment rates went up. Americans are moving from bad jobs to good jobs.
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Luke Pardue retweeted
Today, the @WhiteHouseCEA released the 2025 Economic Report of the President. Chapter 7 of the report references AESG Policy Director @parduel's IN BRIEF on rising worker productivity in the US: “The CEA estimates that mean real weekly wages paid to college-educated workers who were not K-12 teachers rose by 15.4 percent between 2000 and 2023 as worker productivity also rose, in part due to technological innovation in other sectors of the economy.”
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Luke Pardue retweeted
In his new @WSJ op-ed, @jasonfurman stresses the importance of considering tradeoffs in economic policymaking. At our recent policy volume launch, he applied this framework to the case of rebuilding America's chip industry. Watch here:
My latest @WSJopinion is a theme I've been hitting a lot lately--about tradeoffs and the conservative vice of only worrying about costs and the liberal vice of thinking everything is a benefit. buff.ly/4abW2gg
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Luke Pardue retweeted
Rare criticism of Trump from Blinken: He said Trump's idea to have the US take Greenland from Denmark was "obviously not a good one." He and the French foreign minister, Jean-Noël Barrot, pointed to potential strains in alliances as Trump returns: nytimes.com/2025/01/08/wor…
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Noticed something interesting while taking stock of the job market in 2024:
The FOMC’s projections for Q4 unemployment rate moved around quite a bit this year (down to 4% in March, up to 4.4% in June) but they almost nailed it with the median forecast of 4.1% last December!
The FOMC’s projections for Q4 unemployment rate moved around quite a bit this year (down to 4% in March, up to 4.4% in June) but they almost nailed it with the median forecast of 4.1% last December!
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Where do they project it will be this time next year? Not too far from where it is now - median projection is 4.3%
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This @WSJ article highlights a high-profile example of a point @jenniferdoleac makes in her recent @AspenEcon paper: investing in technology to detect and apprehend criminals (being mindful of privacy costs) is a proven way to make communities safer
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3pm TODAY!
@AspenEcon is cohosting a webinar with @NiskanenCenter on how the US can get better at building infrastructure (like roads/bridges, chips factories, energy transmission lines). @ZLiscow will discuss his new AESG paper with @pahlkadot and @makosloff
Link below:
@AspenEcon is cohosting a webinar with @NiskanenCenter on how the US can get better at building infrastructure (like roads/bridges, chips factories, energy transmission lines). @ZLiscow will discuss his new AESG paper with @pahlkadot and @makosloff
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And here is Zach’s @AspenEcon paper:
State Capacity for Building Infrastructure
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State Capacity for Building Infrastructure
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Luke Pardue retweeted
LAST CHANCE TO REGISTER | Tomorrow at 9:30am ET | Join the AESG for "Strengthening America's Economic Dynamism." ft. @SenatorBennet, @crampell, @jasonfurman, @MichaelRStrain, @AllisonSchrager, @kearney_melissa. Sign up here:
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This morning we released the final paper in our policy volume, a look by @jenniferdoleac on evidence-based strategies to reduce crime.
Crimes costs victims & communities trillions each year, and Jen lays out a thoughtful agenda for cost-effective ways to make communities safer.
Crimes costs victims & communities trillions each year, and Jen lays out a thoughtful agenda for cost-effective ways to make communities safer.
After decades of declining crime rates, the US experienced a spike in violent crime during the COVID-19 pandemic.
In a new paper for the AESG 2024 annual policy volume, @jenniferdoleac examines recent crime trends, the economic costs of crime, and evidence-based strategies to o/DyX1V3Bv86
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Although lengthening punishments is a politically popular strategy, @jenniferdoleac points out that research shows strategies geared towards preventing crime and apprehending offenders is a much more effective use of public resources
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Read her essay in @nytimes laying out a “bipartisan public-safety agenda” here:
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