A Hand Up for the Bottom Third: Toward a New Agenda for Low-Income Working Families

Research and Commentary

The Behavioral Aspects of Poverty

Isabel V. Sawhill, The Public Interest, September 01, 2003

Research and Commentary

Still the Land of Opportunity?

Isabel V. Sawhill, The Public Interest, March 01, 1999

Research and Commentary

Getting Ahead: Economic and Social Mobility in America

Daniel P. McMurrer and Isabel V. Sawhill, The Urban Institute, May 01, 1998

Research and Commentary

Poverty, Work, and Policy: The United States in Comparative Perspective

Gary Burtless and Timothy M. Smeeding, Testimony before the House Committee on Ways and Means, Subcommittee on Income Security and Family Support, February 13, 2007

Video

Is the American Dream a Myth?

Ron Haskins and Isabel V. Sawhill, October 19, 2009

Research and Commentary

Welfare to (Non-Traditional) Work?

Ron Haskins, New York Public Radio, August 03, 2007

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

Past Event

Waging a Living: The Struggles of America's Low-Wage Workers

Wednesday, July 26, 2006
9:00 AM to 10:45 AM
Washington, DC

Research and Commentary

Has Widening Inequality Promoted or Retarded U.S. Growth?

Gary Burtless, Canadian Public Policy, September 01, 2003

Research and Commentary

The View from Mars: The Missing Debate on Income Inequality in America

Andrew Oswald and Carol Graham, The Brookings Institution, August 06, 2003

Research and Commentary

Growing American Inequality: Sources and Remedies

Gary Burtless, The Brookings Institution, December 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

Winners and Losers: The Era of Inequality Continues

Deborah Reed and Sheldon Danziger, 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

Past Event

Our Unequal Democracy? The Political Causes and Consequences of America’s Growing Income Gap

Monday, April 28, 2008
10:00 AM to 11:30 AM
Washington, DC

Research and Commentary

Father's Day Lessons

Isabel V. Sawhill, Opportunity 08: What Matters, June 08, 2007

Research and Commentary

Economic Mobility: Is the American Dream Alive and Well?

Isabel V. Sawhill and John E. Morton, Economic Mobility Project, May 01, 2007

Research and Commentary

Expanding the Winners' Circle: A Guide for Increasing Upward Mobility

Joel Slemrod and Robert E. Litan, Blueprint, December 01, 1999