Research and Commentary

Food Stamp Cuts Would Hit Growing Suburban Poor

August 5, 2013, Elizabeth Kneebone

Means-Tested Programs, Work Incentives, and Block Grants

April 17, 2012, Ron Haskins

Welfare Reform Worked

February 28, 2012, Ron Haskins and Peter H. Schuck

@ Brookings Podcast: Automatic Spending Cuts and Programs for the Poor

December 30, 2011, Ron Haskins

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The 15-Year Anniversary of Welfare Reform

August 22, 2011, Ron Haskins

Fighting Poverty the American Way

June 20, 2011, Ron Haskins

Challenges Associated with the Suburbanization of Poverty: Prince George's County, Maryland

December 8, 2010, Martha Ross

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

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

September 2010, David H. Romer and Justin Wolfers

@ Brookings Podcast: Welfare's Transformation

August 20, 2010, Ron Haskins

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Family Matters: Improving Inner-city Neighborhoods

Spring 2010, Ron Haskins

The Effects of the Recession on Child Poverty

January 4, 2010, Julia B. Isaacs

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

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

California’s Work-to-Welfare Policy

October 16, 2009, Ron Haskins

Target Compliance: The Final Frontier of Policy Implementation

September 2009, R. Kent Weaver

The Threat to Work

September 22, 2009, Ron Haskins

Behavioral Economics and Tax Policy

June 16, 2009, William J. Congdon, Jeffrey R. Kling and Sendhil Mullainathan

Welfare Benefits and Drug Use

April 1, 2009, Ron Haskins

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How to Reverse the Trend of Concentrated Poverty

December 28, 2008, Alan Berube

Fighting Poverty in the Land of Opportunity

December 17, 2008, Rebecca M. Blank

The Enduring Challenge of Concentrated Poverty in America

October 24, 2008, Alan Berube and Elizabeth Kneebone