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May 15 2024 |Blog: By the Numbers
April 2024 CPI Report: A Step in the Right Direction

The Consumer Price Index rose at a 3.4% annual pace in April 2024, and 3.6% for all items excluding food and energy. Three things stood out from this report. 1. Inflation softens, after…
Luke Pardue
May 03 2024 |Blog: By the Numbers
April 2024 Jobs Report: Steady-As-She-Goes Labor Market

The BLS estimated that the US economy added 175,000 jobs in February, with the unemployment rate ticking up from 3.7% to 3.9%. Three things stood out from this report. 1. Job Growth Ticks…
Luke Pardue
April 25 2024 |In Brief
In Brief: The Recent Rise in US Labor Productivity

BRIEFLY US labor productivity has enjoyed a period of renewed growth over the past year, interrupting a nearly twenty-year decline: the 2.7 percent productivity growth in 2023 outpaces the 1.5 percent annual average since 2004, and it…
Luke Pardue
April 05 2024 |Blog: By the Numbers
April 2024 Jobs Report: A Best-Case Scenario for the Fed?

The BLS estimated that the US economy added 303,000 jobs in February, with the unemployment rate ticking down from 3.9% to 3.8%. Below are three key takeaways from this report – and…
Luke Pardue
March 29 2024 |Blog: By the Numbers
The Small Role of Ivy League Schools in US Higher Education

The conversation about higher education admissions in the US is often dominated by developments at the eight Ivy League institutions. While there are good reasons to debate admissions at these elite schools (because, for instance, economists
Luke Pardue
March 28 2024 |Blog: By the Numbers
March 2024 Jobs Report: Three Things to Know

The BLS estimated that the US economy added 275,000 jobs in February, with the unemployment rate ticking up from 3.7% to 3.9%. Three things stood beneath the headlines of this…
Luke Pardue
January 22 2024 |News
Aspen Economic Strategy Group Welcomes Five New Members

WASHINGTON, DC, JANUARY 22, 2024 – The Aspen Economic Strategy Group (AESG) today announced five new members have joined the sixty-five-member, bipartisan group of distinguished leaders and thinkers who share the goal of promoting evidence-based solutions to…
Aspen Economic Strategy Group
December 05 2023 |In Brief
IN BRIEF: Pandemic-Era Student Learning Loss and the Policy Response

BRIEFLY The COVID-19 pandemic created not only a public health emergency but a youth education crisis as well. Decades of progress in math and reading among America’s students were wiped away in two years. The federal government passed…
Luke Pardue
November 08 2023 |News
Aspen Economic Strategy Group Releases 2023 Annual Policy Volume: Building a More Resilient US Economy

Washington, DC, November 8, 2023 – The Aspen Economic Strategy Group (AESG) today released its sixth annual policy volume, Building a More Resilient US Economy. The book’s publication…
Aspen Economic Strategy Group
September 19 2023 |In Brief
IN BRIEF: The Wide Class Divide in Family Structure

BRIEFLY: Children in the US are far less likely to be raised in two-parent families today than they were in prior decades, a shift Aspen Economic Strategy Group (AESG) director Melissa Kearney explores in her new book, The Two-Parent…
Luke Pardue

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