Improving the Measurement of Poverty

Past Event

Poverty Reduction Strategies for the Next Decade

Monday, September 29, 2008
9:30 AM to 2:00 PM
Washington, DC

Research and Commentary

How Can We Reduce the Rising Number of American Families Living in Poverty?

Rebecca M. Blank, Joint Economic Committee, September 25, 2008

Research and Commentary

How to Improve Poverty Measurement in the United States

Rebecca M. Blank, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, June 30, 2008

Research and Commentary

Improve the Poverty Measure

Rebecca M. Blank and Mark H. Greenberg, Hamilton Project Discussion Paper, December 08, 2008

Research and Commentary

How We Measure Poverty

Rebecca M. Blank, Los Angeles Times, September 15, 2008

Past Event

Decrease Poverty and Increase Opportunity

Monday, November 24, 2008
2:00 PM to 3:30 PM
Washington, DC

Past Event

Helping Disconnected and Hard-to-Employ Single Mothers

Wednesday, May 07, 2008
9:00 AM to 11:15 AM
Washington, DC

Research and Commentary

Why the United States Needs an Improved Measure of Poverty

Rebecca M. Blank, Subcommittee on Income Security and Family Support of the House Committee on Ways and Means , July 17, 2008

Past Event

The Scouting Report: Decrease Poverty and Increase Opportunity

Wednesday, November 26, 2008
12:30 PM to 1:30 PM

Research and Commentary

Memo to the President: Decrease Poverty and Increase Opportunity

Rebecca M. Blank, The Brookings Institution, November 24, 2008

Research and Commentary

If the Economy’s So Bad, Why Is the Unemployment Rate So Low?

Rebecca M. Blank, Joint Economic Committee, March 07, 2008

Research and Commentary

The Rise Of the Bottom Fifth: How to Build on the Gains Of Welfare Reform

Ron Haskins, The Washington Post, May 29, 2007

Research and Commentary

Welfare Reform: Time for Congress to Act

Margy Waller, Women's eNews, September 15, 2004

Research and Commentary

Event Summary: Informing Policy Choices Using the Economics of Happiness

The Brookings Institution, June 03, 2004

Research and Commentary

Winners and Losers: The Era of Inequality Continues

Deborah Reed and Sheldon Danziger, The Brookings Institution, September 01, 1999

Research and Commentary

Squeezed for Time? American Inequality and the Shortage of Leisure

Gary Burtless, The Brookings Institution, September 01, 1999

Research and Commentary

Poverty 101: What Liberals and Conservatives Can Learn from Each Other

David Kuo, The Brookings Institution, September 01, 1997

Research and Commentary

Worsening American Income: Inequality: Is world trade to blame?

Gary Burtless, The Brookings Institution, March 01, 1996

Expert

Gary Burtless

Expert

R. Kent Weaver