Getting More from Low-Income Housing Assistance

Research and Commentary

In Kentucky, Being Poor is Costly

Dr. Terry I. Brooks, Matt Fellowes and Mia Mabanta, The Louisville Courier-Journal, June 24, 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

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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

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

Adam Thomas and Isabel V. Sawhill, The Brookings Institution, May 01, 2001

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

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

Policies for Tackling the Mortgage Mess

Douglas W. Elmendorf, Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, April 10, 2008

Research and Commentary

Encouraging Homeownership Through the Tax Code

William G. Gale, Jonathan Gruber and Seth Stephens-Davidowitz, The Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center, June 18, 2007

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

Research and Commentary

The Behavioral Aspects of Poverty

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

Research and Commentary

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

Gary Burtless, Canadian Public Policy, September 01, 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

Still the Land of Opportunity?

Isabel V. Sawhill, The Public Interest, March 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

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Alan Mallach

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Gary Burtless

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Paul C. Brophy

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