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Senior Fellow and Research Director

Alan Berube

Alan Berube

Senior Fellow and Research Director, Metropolitan Policy Program

Alan Berube is a senior fellow and research director of the Brookings Metropolitan Policy Program. A former policy advisor to the U.S. Treasury Department, he is an expert on metropolitan demographics, low-wage workers, and urban poverty.


Q&A with Alan Berube

Low-Income Families and Communities

"Now, a larger number of low-income people live amid the circumstances that we need to be concerned about ... that high poverty brings, which includes: lack of investment; lack of local job opportunities; poorer performing schools, higher crime rates; and the poor physical and mental health that goes along with all of those problems."

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