Social Policy

  • In the News

    How would a crackdown backfire? Because it would produce, immediately in Colorado, and eventually in other states, an atomized, anarchic state legalized but unregulated marijuana market that federal drug enforcers lack the manpower to contain and lack the legal power to force the states to contain.

    May 8, 2013, Stuart S. Taylor, Jr., KCRW
  • Expert Q & A | Isabel V. Sawhill and Ron Haskins

    Subsidizing Higher Education May Not Be Paying Off

    May 7, 2013, Isabel V. Sawhill and Ron Haskins

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    Often the major problem is that the governments aren't enforcing the labor laws and the safety standards and regulations that they've actually agreed to and the international agreements they've signed up to.

    May 2, 2013, Jane Nelson, National Public Radio
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    The idea is that these metrics can complement [measures such as GDP]…and they often tell us very different things. [Well-being data] give you a wider choice set when you're making a policy decision.

    April 10, 2013, Carol Graham, Wall Street Journal
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    More than 70 percent of today's baby boomers and seniors are white, and they grew up during a time when the nation's minority population was relatively small and consisted mainly of African Americans. By contrast, 40 percent of those under age 35 belong to minority groups. They have grown up during a period when racial mingling is the norm at school, work, social occasions and houses of worship.

    March 14, 2013, William H. Frey, Phys.org
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    Governments increasingly recognize that we have patterns of growth and opportunity that are leaving too many people behind.

    March 5, 2013, Kevin Watkins, Kapuscinski Development Lectures
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    We really need to think hard about whether the dollars we are spending are effective at achieving the goals. Our existing [retirement] programs are falling short.

    February 25, 2013, Karen Dynan, Bloomberg
  • Radio Interview | KNPR

    February 22, 2013, Carol Graham

  • In the News

    Often low- and moderate-income families need a way to cash their check, they need a way to pay their bills, they need a way to save for the future, and they’ve cobbled together an interesting mix of bank and non-bank services to do that that are often more expensive and more costly than they need to be.

    February 18, 2013, Michael Barr, The Economist
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    Both parties realize that they have to reorganize not simply cut deeply these entitlement programs. They serve a population that's very vulnerable. You have to be careful about shifting costs because they affect poor people and old people and disabled people in very different ways than they do the rest of us who have somewhat growing incomes.

    February 1, 2013, Donna E. Shalala, Nightly Business Report

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