Making public programs work for the Americans they were built for.
The American Empowerment Fund studies where the country's health, housing, and benefit systems break down, publishes the evidence in full, and works with policymakers across the aisle to fix what the record shows is broken.
The numbers behind the work
The failures we document are national. We investigate them state by state and publish the record in full, every figure sourced.
Research first. Then we make the case.
Families left waiting. Dollars no one can trace.
Across the country, the programs built to catch people are missing them, while billions go out the door unaccounted for. State to state, the pattern is the same. Here is the national record, every figure sourced.
Analysis you can read in full and check
The priorities that carry families and the country forward
Built to be useful to the people who can act
We write for decision-makers and the public alike. Clear enough for a busy reader, sourced deeply enough for a committee staffer.
Evidence, offered to both sides
We bring documented findings to the committees, agencies, and offices positioned to act, and we work with members of either party when the record points the same way.
The standard we hold ourselves to
We ask the same of ourselves that we ask of the programs we study. Document everything. Show the sources. Stay independent of the interests involved.
Keep the evidence independent and public
Our research answers to the record, not to a donor. Get in touch, or chip in to keep it that way.