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Stop Feeling Sorry for the Middle Class—They’re Doing Just Fine

February 7, 2012, Scott Winship

The Obama Administration's Mobility Claims and the "Great Gatsby Curve"

January 20, 2012, Scott Winship

Opportunity in America: The Disadvantages Start at Conception

January 9, 2012, Isabel V. Sawhill

Bogeyman Economics: Has Economic Insecurity Been Overstated?

Winter 2012, Scott Winship

The President’s Suspect Statistics

January 2, 2012, Scott Winship

Mobility Is a Problem; Now What?

December 23, 2011, Ron Haskins

Children’s Economic Well-Being: 2011

December 20, 2011, Julia B. Isaacs

Income and Education as Predictors of Children's School Readiness

December 14, 2011, Julia B. Isaacs and Katherine Magnuson

Is U.S. Upward Economic Mobility Impaired?

November 9, 2011, Scott Winship

Supplemental Poverty Measure

November 7, 2011

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An Update to “Simulating the Effect of the ‘Great Recession’ on Poverty”

September 13, 2011, Emily Monea and Isabel V. Sawhill

Building the Connection between Policy and Evidence: The Obama Evidence-based Initiatives

September 2011, Jon Baron and Ron Haskins

Helping the Roma in Bulgaria: Recommendations to the Board of the America for Bulgaria Foundation

August 19, 2011, Ron Haskins

The Marginalization of Marriage in Middle America

August 10, 2011, Andrew J. Cherlin and W. Bradford Wilcox

Better Data, Better Outcomes: How Public Policy is Helping Poor Children

August 8, 2011, Julia B. Isaacs

The High Cost of Unintended Pregnancy

July 2011, Emily Monea and Adam Thomas

Restoring Work by Poor Fathers

July 2011, Ron Haskins and Lawrence M. Mead

Fighting Poverty the American Way

June 20, 2011, Ron Haskins

How to Fulfill the Promise of Opportunity for All

June 2011, Isabel V. Sawhill

Social Policy in Singapore: A Crucible of Individual Responsibility

June 2011, Ron Haskins

Family Planning Subsidies: Much Ado about Something

April 12, 2011, Isabel V. Sawhill and Adam Thomas

America’s Endangered Middle Class: Exploring Progressive and Conservative Remedies

February 24, 2011

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Should the Disadvantaged be Spared from the Budget Axe? A Look at the President’s Budget Commission Findings and How They Could Impact the Poor

December 16, 2010

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Helping Fragile Families

October 27, 2010

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Strengthening Fragile Families

Fall 2010, Elisabeth Donahue, Irwin Garfinkel, Ron Haskins, Sara McLanahan and Ronald B. Mincy