SPOTLIGHT: Fiscal Policy

Reuters/Jason Cohn - Beth Shelly (L), 6, and her sister Mary, 7, attend a political rally on the Penn State campus in McKeesport, Pennsylvania
Isabel V. Sawhill and Emily Monea, Summer 2008
Isabel Sawhill and Emily Monea argue that it's time to tear up the intergenerational contract as we know it and construct public policy around the one group of people for whom social investments really pay off: kids.
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Fiscal Policy, Intergenerational Equity, Macroeconomics, U.S. Economy
SPOTLIGHT: Housing

Reuters/Rick Wilking - A sign referring to the "American Dream" of home ownership sits next to one offering foreclosure assistance in Denver
Julia B. Isaacs and Phillip Lovell, April 2008
New research from Brookings and First Focus shows that nearly two million children will be directly impacted by the mortgage crisis. When forced from their homes, children’s education is disrupted, their peer relationships crumble, and the social networks that support them are fractured.
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Housing, Cost of Living, Children & Families, U.S. Economy
SPOTLIGHT: Children & Families

Reuters/Fred Prouser - A father and his sons play a guitar video game at an expo in Los Angeles
Ron Haskins, Elisabeth Hirschhorn Donahue and Marisa Nightingale, Spring 2008
Parents are worried that teens are drowning in messages about sex, smoking, drinking, consumer goods and a host of other behaviors and products that threaten their well-being. This brief advocates using creative media to provide youth with positive messages that counteract the negative damaging messages to which they are exposed.
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Children & Families, Information Technology, Internet Policy, Media & Journalism, Technology
SPOTLIGHT: Economic Mobility
Ron Haskins, Julia B. Isaacs and Isabel V. Sawhill, February 2008
Is America still the land of opportunity and mobility? With new data and analysis, this volume measures how much economic mobility actually exists in America. Chapters examine mobility across generations, trends over time, international comparisons, the role of wealth, differences in mobility by race and gender, the mobility of immigrants, and the role of education.
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Economic Mobility, Education, Inequality, U.S. Poverty, Children & Families
PAST EVENT: Economic Mobility in America

Reuters/Sean Gardner - A child in New Orleans swings on the bars of his new playground
Thursday, March 20, 2008
9:00 AM to 11:45 AM
Washington, DC
A comprehensive look at the trends and issues that drive economic opportunity in America was released last month in a new volume by Brookings experts, "Getting Ahead or Losing Ground: Economic Mobility in America." On March 20, the Center on Children and Families at Brookings and the Pew Charitable Trusts’ Economic Mobility Project held a forum to discuss the findings on gender, race, immigration, and families in addition to new findings on education, international comparisons, trends, and wealth.
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Economic Mobility, Children & Families, U.S. Economy, Working Poor, Wages