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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

New State Data Show EITC’s Widespread Anti-Poverty Impact

January 11, 2013, Elizabeth Kneebone and Jane Williams

On Establishing a Commission to Develop Recommendations for Reducing Child Deaths Due to Maltreatment

December 12, 2012, Bill Frenzel

Progressives and the Safety Net

Fall 2012, Henry J. Aaron

A Poverty and Opportunity Agenda: What’s in Store for the Next Four Years

December 5, 2012

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New Ways to Promote Retirement Saving

October 2012, William G. Gale, David C. John and Spencer Smith

We're now having that frank public conversation about what do we want from government and how much do we want to pay for it.

October 28, 2012, Tracy Gordon, CNN

Inequality Is Not What We Imagine

October 19, 2012, Scott Winship

What "Lost Decade"? On the Supposed Decline of the American Middle Class

October 1, 2012, Scott Winship

Pathways to the Middle Class: Balancing Personal and Public Responsibilities

September 20, 2012

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I think there is at least a hint that we have hit bottom in this post-recession malaise in the United States. And by that I mean we've not turned up, but we're going down at a slower pace, and we might see a little bit of the glimmer of the light at the end of the tunnel.

September 20, 2012, William H. Frey, National Public Radio

We don't see very important neighborhood effects on those two outcomes that people have focused on. But the things that people had been focused on and worried about with neighborhoods aren't the full story. Helping poor families is about a lot more than just increasing their income.

September 20, 2012, Jens Ludwig, Wall Street Journal

Earnings for middle and lower-wage workers have fallen or stagnated over time. So you can have a situation where jobs are being created ... but the types of jobs matter. If those are jobs that pay low wages, even if you're working full-time, that might not be enough to lift you above the poverty line.

September 20, 2012, Elizabeth Kneebone, 24/7 Wall St

Disappointing Numbers on Income and Poverty: What's Wrong With This Story?

September 17, 2012, Gary Burtless