Research and Commentary

The Social Service Challenges of Rising Suburban Poverty

October 7, 2010, Scott W. Allard and Benjamin Roth

The Great Recession and Poverty in Metropolitan America

October 7, 2010, Elizabeth Kneebone

Rising Poverty and the Social Safety Net: End the Stimulus Benefit Expansions

September 17, 2010, Ron Haskins

Great Recession Pushing Poverty Up

September 16, 2010, Ron Haskins

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Editors' Summary of the Fall 2010 Brookings Papers on Economic Activity

September 2010, David H. Romer and Justin Wolfers

We Should Strengthen the Safety Net as the Recession Swells the Ranks of the Poor

September 16, 2010, Isabel V. Sawhill

An Update to “Simulating the Effect of the ‘Great Recession’ on Poverty”

September 16, 2010, Emily Monea and Isabel V. Sawhill

@ Brookings Podcast: Welfare's Transformation

August 20, 2010, Ron Haskins

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The Child Tax Credit after ARRA: How Would Expiration Affect Metropolitan Families?

July 8, 2010, Elizabeth Kneebone

The State of Metropolitan America: Metros on the Front Lines of Demographic Transformation

May 11, 2010, Bruce Katz

Is the Census Bureau’s Supplemental Poverty Measure a Relative Measure of Poverty?

May 11, 2010, Ron Haskins, Daniel Moskowitz and Timothy M. Smeeding

Job Sprawl and the Suburbanization of Poverty

March 30, 2010, Steven Raphael and Michael Stoll

March 2010: The Landscape of Recession: Unemployment and Safety Net Services Across Urban and Suburban America

March 30, 2010, Emily Garr and Elizabeth Kneebone

Census Brings Money Home

March 15, 2010, Andrew Reamer

Census to Redefine Poverty

March 12, 2010, Ron Haskins and Doug Nelson

The Suburbanization of Poverty

January 20, 2010, Emily Garr and Elizabeth Kneebone

The Recession’s Impact on Children

January 15, 2010, Julia B. Isaacs

Families of the Recession: Unemployed Parents & Their Children

January 14, 2010, Julia B. Isaacs and Phillip Lovell

The Status Report: Obama’s Commitment to Creating Opportunity

January 6, 2010, Ron Haskins and Isabel V. Sawhill

The 2010 Reauthorization of Welfare Reform Could Result in Important Changes

December 18, 2009, Ron Haskins

The Future of Welfare to Work

December 9, 2009, Ron Haskins

Examining Economic Mobility in America

December 3, 2009, Ron Haskins and Isabel V. Sawhill

Food Stamps and the Growing Suburban Safety Net

December 1, 2009, Alan Berube

Children and the Elderly: Not Children or the Elderly

December 1, 2009, Henry J. Aaron

Spending on Children and the Elderly

November 2009, Julia B. Isaacs