Commentary

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
August 30 2023 |News
Press Release: Why Drug Pricing Is Complicated

Aspen Economic Strategy Group releases new paper by Kellogg’s Craig Garthwaite and Amanda Starc WASHINGTON, DC | WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 30, 2023 — The Aspen Economic Strategy Group (AESG) today released a new paper, “Why…
Aspen Economic Strategy Group
May 24 2023 |In Brief
IN BRIEF: Cutting the Safety Net Is Not an Effective Way to Reduce Government Spending

BRIEFLY… High-stakes negotiations over the debt limit center on ways to bring government spending more in line with government revenues. The political contours of the debate have excluded cuts to Social…
Luke Pardue, Melissa S. Kearney
May 04 2023 |In Brief
IN BRIEF: The Who, What, and Why of Declining College Enrollment, 2019-2021

BRIEFLY… College enrollment in the US declined among recent high school graduates in the past couple of years, even as the economic returns to a college degree remain substantial – see this previous IN BREIF. In this post, we…
Luke Pardue
May 04 2023 |Articles & Op-Eds
TIME Magazine Op-Ed: Too Many High School Seniors Are Turning Away from College Altogether

For many high school seniors and their families, May 1st is “National College Decision Day,” when millions of students make a personal decision about their academic future. It is also a decision with…
Luke Pardue, Melissa S. Kearney
March 09 2023 |Articles & Op-Eds
The Hill Op-Ed: How to fight poverty and boost work with an enhanced Child Tax Credit

The president’s 2024 budget, released today, calls for reinstating the 2021 expansion of the Child Tax Credit, which dramatically reduced child poverty. The temporary effect of that one-year expansion on poverty rates…
Melissa S. Kearney, Wendy Edelberg
March 07 2023 |In Brief
IN BRIEF: The College Wage Premium Through the COVID-19 Pandemic

IN BRIEF COVID-related disruptions coupled with a tight labor market have led to a historic decline in college enrollment of recent high school graduates over the past three years. This drop, however, comes as the earnings premium for…
Luke Pardue
January 17 2023 |In Brief
IN BRIEF: Entrepreneurship Since the COVID-19 Pandemic

Editor’s note: The Aspen Economic Strategy Group is pleased to welcome Luke Pardue, an economist at the payroll and HR platform Gusto, as an AESG Fellow. Luke obtained his PhD in economics from the University of Maryland and previously…
Luke Pardue
January 09 2023 |News
Seven Recent Developments in US Science Funding

Over the past century, scientific research and development (R&D) has fueled US economic and military might and propelled the country’s status as a global superpower. These investments have helped to launch not only the…
Amy Ganz, Emily Vincent
December 29 2022 |Articles & Op-Eds
Financial Times Op-Ed: America’s slowing population growth is here to stay

The US faces a demographic challenge that many other high-income countries have been facing for decades: below replacement level fertility. As American adults are choosing to have fewer children than previous generations did, the nation faces the prospect of…
Melissa S. Kearney

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