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Keeping the Promise: Maintaining the Health of Military and Veteran Families and Children

October 1, 2013

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Downward Social Mobility: the Glass-Floor Problem

September 29, 2013, Richard V. Reeves

Poverty and Income in 2012: A Look at the New Census Data and What the Numbers Mean

September 17, 2013

Parenting Gap Damages Social Mobility and Opportunity

September 9, 2013, Richard V. Reeves

The Parenting Gap

September 9, 2013, Richard V. Reeves and Kimberly Howard

Parenting, Politics, and Social Mobility

Fall 2013, Isabel V. Sawhill, Richard V. Reeves and Kimberly Howard

Does a Strong Middle Class Predict Upward Social Mobility for the Poor?

September 6, 2013, Elisabeth Jacobs

Funding Gaps in Public Schools Real Problem for Social Mobility, Not Parents’ Giving

September 6, 2013, Richard V. Reeves

How to Make College More Affordable? Improve Productivity

September 4, 2013, Isabel V. Sawhill

How China Can Defuse Its Looming Demographic Crisis

August 20, 2013, Robert C. Pozen

Richard Reeves Joins Brookings Economic Studies as Fellow and Policy Director

July 31, 2013

Local Economies Are Only Part of the Story of Economic Mobility

July 24, 2013, Isabel V. Sawhill

Strategies for Assisting Low-Income Families

July 1, 2013, Isabel V. Sawhill and Quentin Karpilow

Marriage on the Rocks: Economic and Social Consequences for Kids

June 26, 2013, Ron Haskins

Is There a Better Way to Prepare Disadvantaged Students for College?

May 7, 2013

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Do Budget Commitments to the Old Shortchange the Young?

March 26, 2013, Gary Burtless

Knot Yet: The Future of Marriage in the U.S.

March 20, 2013

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Shame and Teen Pregnancy

March 18, 2013, Richard V. Reeves

In Reducing Teen Pregnancy, Shame Is Not a Four-Letter Word

March 15, 2013, Richard V. Reeves

Three Simple Rules Poor Teens Should Follow to Join the Middle Class

March 13, 2013, Ron Haskins

Robert Gordon, OMB Acting Deputy Director, to Join Brookings

March 7, 2013

Population, Policy, and Politics: How Will History Judge China’s One-Child Policy?

February 2013, Feng Wang, Yong Cai and Baochang Gu

Let's Have More Immigrants, Not More Babies

February 20, 2013, Isabel V. Sawhill

Assessing Universal Pre-K Programs in Oklahoma

February 15, 2013, Ted Gayer

Middle Childhood Success and Economic Mobility

February 15, 2013, J. Lawrence Aber, Kerry Searle Grannis, Stephanie Owen and Isabel V. Sawhill