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

September 17, 2013

Brookings Scholars Comment on Census Bureau Poverty Numbers

September 17, 2013, Fred Dews

Will Health Insurance In The World Of Obamacare Be Affordable? It Depends Whom You Ask

September 12, 2013, S. Lawrence Kocot

America’s Broken Dream: Growing Inequality

September 5, 2013, Carol Graham

Local Economies Are Only Part of the Story of Economic Mobility

July 24, 2013, Isabel V. Sawhill

Making Work Pay — Again This Time for Men

July 3, 2013, Ron Haskins and John Podesta

Raising the Minimum Wage: Will it Help?

July 1, 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

Suburban Poverty Profiles: Montgomery County, Maryland

May 22, 2013, Elizabeth Kneebone and Alan Berube

Cul-de-Sac Poverty

May 21, 2013, Elizabeth Kneebone and Alan Berube

When people think of poverty in America, they tend to think of inner city neighborhoods or isolated rural communities. But today, suburbs are home to the largest and fastest growing poor population in the country.

May 20, 2013, Elizabeth Kneebone, CNNMoney.com

Confronting Suburban Poverty in America

2013, Elizabeth Kneebone and Alan Berube

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Time for Change: A New Federal Strategy to Prepare Disadvantaged Students for College

May 7, 2013, Ron Haskins and Cecilia Elena Rouse

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

Subjective and Objective Indicators of Racial Progress

March 15, 2013, Betsey Stevenson and Justin Wolfers

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

March 13, 2013, Ron Haskins

Often low- and moderate-income families need a way to cash their check, they need a way to pay their bills, they need a way to save for the future, and they’ve cobbled together an interesting mix of bank and non-bank services to do that that are often more expensive and more costly than they need to be.

February 18, 2013, Michael Barr, The Economist

Middle Childhood Success and Economic Mobility

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

A State of the Union Wish List

February 8, 2013, Ron Haskins

Long-Term Impacts of Individual Development Accounts on Homeownership among Baseline Renters: Follow-Up Evidence from a Randomized Experiment

February 1, 2013, Michal Grinstein-Weiss, Michael Sherraden, William G. Gale, William M. Rohe, Mark Schreiner and Clinton Key

It’s the biggest expansion of Medicaid in a long time, and the biggest ever in terms of adults covered. Although the federal government is on the hook for most of the cost, Medicaid on the whole is one of the biggest items in state budgets and the fastest growing. So there are some understandable concerns about the financial implications and how implementation would work.

January 28, 2013, Mark B. McClellan, The Associated Press

The number of people who are poor or near poor went from 81 million in 2000 to 107 million in 2010. This is like a quantum leap. It’s hard for me to understand why the nation’s decision makers don’t get up every day and recite that number every day when they’re looking in the mirror. We now have a third of our people who are poor or near poor.

January 23, 2013, Bruce Katz, msnbc.com

A New Federal Policy Architecture to Promote Social Mobility

January 22, 2013, Richard V. Reeves