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Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT
Can marriage decrease poverty? Higher marriage rates among the poor would benefit poor adults themselves, their children and the nation, says Ron Haskins. He argues that non-coercive programs that are delivered by community-based agencies can be effective. By helping couples who want to marry, the payoff to them, their children and society is potentially enormous.
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Sun, 01 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT
Americans have always believed that their country is unique in providing the opportunity to get ahead. Ron Haskins and Isabel Sawhill deconstruct five myths about economic mobility in the United States, saying that we need better policies to help create a true opportunity society.
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Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT
Recent decades have seen sharply rising incomes for the rich, modest progress for the middle class, and little or no progress for the poor. How can more people achieve the American Dream? To address the question, Ron Haskins and Politico senior editor Fred Barbash conducted a live web chat about expanding economic opportunity in America.
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Tue, 20 Oct 2009 08:24:00 GMT
Despite its status as one of the world’s leading economies, the United States is faced with high poverty rates and less economic opportunity than many other affluent countries. Senior Fellows Isabel Sawhill and Ron Haskins, argue that it will take a combination of personal responsibility along with smarter and better-targeted government policies to make the American Dream a reality for children and families now stuck at the bottom.
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Fri, 16 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT
Ron Haskins argues that California's recent decision to allow a substantial number of its welfare recipients to avoid work requirements will reverse nearly a decade and a half of hard-won progress against parental idleness and child poverty.
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Thu, 01 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT
This policy brief, a companion to the volume of The Future of Children devoted to child maltreatment prevention, the authors examine evaluations of home-visiting programs designed to improve parenting and reduce child maltreatment and how policy makers are using social science evidence to identify and support successful programs.
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Thu, 01 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMT
In this policy brief, a companion to the volume of The Future of Children devoted to child maltreatment prevention, the authors examine evaluations of home-visiting programs designed to improve parenting and reduce child maltreatment and how policy makers are using social science evidence to identify and support successful programs.
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Tue, 22 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT
Ron Haskins states that one of the few government strategies that has proven successful in reducing poverty is encouraging or demanding that adults on welfare work, even at low wage jobs, and then subsidizing their earnings but with employment, income, and earnings stagnant or in decline for nearly a decade now, it is time to worry.
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Fri, 31 Jul 2009 00:00:00 GMT
Ron Haskins discusses personal responsibility and the three areas of personal decision-making in which the nation’s youth and young adults most need to learn and practice personal responsibility: education, sexual behavior and marriage, and work.
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Tue, 02 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMT
The United States faces a looming fiscal imbalance brought on by an aging population and rising health care costs. Yet, the current political environment discourages our leadership from making the tough choices required to fix our fiscal house. In this paper, a diverse group of budget experts reviews some of the recent history of appointed commissions, and discusses their potential role in long-term federal budgeting policy.
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Thu, 14 May 2009 00:00:00 GMT
In this policy brief, a companion to the volume of The Future of Children devoted to high school reforms, Ron Haskins and James Kemple examine the steps high schools should take to help low-income students prepare for and succeed in college. Specifically, they argue, high schools should boost students’ subject matter knowledge and study skills and counsel students on how to select colleges and obtain financial aid.
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Tue, 12 May 2009 00:00:00 GMT
Many low-income students miss out on college because they don’t know how much it actually costs or how to get access to billions of dollars in financial aid, says Ron Haskins. That’s why improving the equality of educational opportunity—a traditional American value—is one key to promoting economic mobility for disadvantaged students.
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Fri, 27 Mar 2009 16:51:28 GMT
Ron Haskins, co-director of Brookings’s Center on Children and Families, says President Obama’s budget is unsustainable and adds that it will likely fail to help restore fiscal solvency to the nation’s economy. Haskins says unless lawmakers are willing to compromise on key issues the fiscal situation will worsen.
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Thu, 19 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMT
A bipartisan group of budget experts from 7 different organizations view President Obama’s Fiscal Responsibility summit as a good first step to addressing the enormous long-term fiscal problem facing the United States, but urge him to lead a major public engagement effort – beyond a one-day summit – to inform Americans of the scale and nature of the long-term fiscal crisis, explain the consequences of inaction and discuss the options for solving the problem. The effort should include the creation of an independent and truly bipartisan commission or other mechanism capable of bringing about decisive action that has broad public support.
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Tue, 27 Jan 2009 00:00:00 GMT
A diverse group of experts urged President Obama, in his first budget submission, to strike a judicious balance between America’s short-term and long-term economic needs. While the need to boost spending to stimulate the economy is important, they say these short-term steps must not make it harder to achieve our long-term goals. They note that fundamental reforms of major entitlement programs and the tax system are needed to bring spending and revenues into better balance over the longer-term.
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Mon, 15 Dec 2008 00:00:00 GMT
Ron Haskins gave the keynote speech “Intersection of Early Childhood Education, Poverty and Policy” and discussed cost effective early childhood policies that improve outcomes for children at the Early Childhood Public Engagement Summit.
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Wed, 15 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT
Ron Haskins and Laurence Steinberg, in this companion to the new edition of The Future of Children devoted to juvenile justice, examine the problem of youth confinement in correctional facilities, including adult jails and prisons. They pay special attention to why harsh punishment of adolescents is not only often unjust but also counterproductive and make recommendations for more appropriate and cost-effective responses to youth crime.
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Mon, 15 Sep 2008 00:00:00 GMT
Ron Haskins offers ways policymakers could create an entitlement to housing assistance that would more fairly distribute housing benefits and convert housing into a more effective element in the nation’s work support system. The goal of reform would be to get the most out of the resources now devoted to housing by providing at least some benefit to all eligible families that want a housing subsidy.
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Sun, 31 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT
A host of demographic and economic trends in the United States are making it difficult for the nation to make progress against poverty and income inequality. However, Ron Haskins argues, government policies that raise work levels and provide public benefits to supplement earnings have proven to be effective in fighting poverty among female-headed families. But further progress against poverty and economic inequality seems unlikely unless more poor adults work, reduce the number of births outside marriage, and marry at higher rates.
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Fri, 08 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT
The bipartisan economic stimulus package was a straightforward application of Keynesian fiscal policy: Spend your way out of recession. However, some might wonder if it’s possible to design a stimulus package that could also reduce inequality. In this paper, Ron Haskins explains why targeted stimulus may reduce poverty in the short run but cannot substitute for investments that will reduce inequality in the long run.
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Thu, 10 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT
Parents are worried that teens are drowning in messages about sex, smoking, drinking, consumer goods and a host of other behaviors and products that threaten their well-being. This brief advocates using creative media to provide youth with positive messages that counteract the negative damaging messages to which they are exposed.
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Mon, 07 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT
As the baby boomers begin to retire this year, the burden of Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid will grow relentlessly. With more people in the programs and more expensive benefits, the nation will quickly encounter a budget disaster. Bill Frenzel and Ron Haskins say that dramatic reforms are needed to avoid budget chaos for future generations.
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Tue, 01 Apr 2008 00:00:00 GMT
Unsustainable deficits in the federal budget threaten the health and vigor of the American economy. When the next president and Congress take office in January 2009, they will face one crucial question that has been almost absent from the current election campaign: how to close the enormous gap between projected federal spending and revenues.
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Wed, 20 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMT
Is America still the land of opportunity and mobility? How much opportunity to get ahead actually exists in America? Brookings scholars Julia Isaacs, Isabel Sawhill and Ron Haskins provide new evidence and summarize research on both the extent of intergenerational mobility in the United States and the factors that influence it.
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Wed, 23 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMT
While the nation has been struggling to eliminate the education gap, Ron Haskins testifies on ways to improve all preschool education received by poor children.
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Thu, 03 Jan 2008 10:14:50 GMT
In the late 1990s, Congress and President Clinton collaborated on bi-partisan legislation that led to a substantial decline in child poverty in the United States – especially in African-American communities. Ron Haskins explains that the next president should reinvigorate the fight against poverty through increasing benefits while requiring more personal responsibility.
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Sat, 01 Sep 2007 00:00:00 GMT
Wage subsidies and work requirements hold the promise of alleviating many social problems, especially poverty. Brookings’s Ron Haskins writes about counteracting the negative behaviors of adolescent boys and young men in a new brief.
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Sat, 01 Sep 2007 00:00:00 GMT
This semiannual journal provides research and analysis to promote effective policies and programs for children. This issue focuses on antipoverty policies.
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Fri, 03 Aug 2007 00:00:00 GMT
Interview with Ron Haskins (08/03/07)
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Wed, 25 Jul 2007 00:00:00 GMT
Report by Ron Haskins (July 2007)
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Sun, 01 Jul 2007 00:00:00 GMT
The National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-Being (NSCAW) is the first nationally representative study of children who have been reported to authorities as suspected victims of abuse or neglect and the public programs that protect them.Child Pro
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Tue, 29 May 2007 00:00:00 GMT
Article by Ron Haskins (05/29/07)
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Tue, 01 May 2007 00:00:00 GMT
Article by Ron Haskins and Isabel V. Sawhill (May 2007)
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Thu, 01 Mar 2007 00:00:00 GMT
Future of Children Policy Brief by Ron Haskins and Susanna Loeb (Spring 2007)
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Wed, 28 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT
Although the nation's poverty rate is higher now than it was in the 1970s, no President since Lyndon Johnson has made fighting poverty a major plank of his campaign or goal of his administration. With large and growing gaps between the rich and the poor, it is now time for presidential campaigns and the next President to focus on poverty and inequality in America.
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Thu, 22 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT
Testimony by Ron Haskins (2/22/07)
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Wed, 24 Jan 2007 00:00:00 GMT
Testimony by Ron Haskins, House Committee on Ways and Means (1/24/07)
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Sun, 01 Oct 2006 00:00:00 GMT
Ron Haskins tells the inside story of the legislation that ended "welfare as we know it."
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Thu, 24 Aug 2006 00:00:00 GMT
An Interview with Ron Haskins
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Tue, 22 Aug 2006 00:00:00 GMT
An NPR Interview with Ron Haskins
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Sun, 20 Aug 2006 00:00:00 GMT
Opinion by Ron Haskins (8/18/2006)
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Sat, 19 Aug 2006 00:00:00 GMT
Ron Haskins' NPR Op-Ed about Welfare Reform
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Thu, 17 Aug 2006 00:00:00 GMT
Ron Haskins' appearance on NPR's Talk of the Nation
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Thu, 27 Jul 2006 00:00:00 GMT
Ron Haskins Opinion Appearing in the Wall Street Journal, July 27, 2006
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Wed, 19 Jul 2006 00:00:00 GMT
Testimony by Ron Haskins, House Committee on Ways and Means (7/19/06)
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Wed, 03 May 2006 00:00:00 GMT
Testimony of Ron Haskins House Committee on Appropriations (5/3/06)
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Tue, 28 Mar 2006 00:00:00 GMT
The following are papers presented at the March 28, 2006 forum co-sponsored by the Foundation for Child Development and the Brookings Institution to release the 2006 Child and Youth Well-being Index designed by Kenneth Land of Duke University.
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Wed, 15 Mar 2006 00:00:00 GMT
Article by Ron Haskins, APHSA Policy & Practice (03/06)
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Wed, 01 Mar 2006 00:00:00 GMT
Childhood obesity is a growing national problem. Federal, state, and local policymakers and practitioners recognize the need to take strong action. Public schools are playing a central role in fighting childhood obesity despite both political and financial constraints.
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Tue, 15 Nov 2005 00:00:00 GMT
Opinion by Sara McLanahan and Ron Haskins, The Baltimore Sun (11/15/05)
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Thu, 06 Oct 2005 00:00:00 GMT
Testimony by Ron Haskins, Senate Committee on Appropriations (10/6/05)
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Tue, 06 Sep 2005 00:00:00 GMT
Subscribe to The Future of Children
This second volume examines family formation and child well-being, with a particu
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Thu, 01 Sep 2005 00:00:00 GMT
High U.S. rates of family dissolution and lone-parent child rearing impose large costs on individuals and society. A variety of new federal and state initiatives are attempting to promote family formation and healthy marriage among interested couples, including poor and minority couples who have had babies outside marriage. Careful evaluations of these programs should identify which are most effective.
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Fri, 26 Aug 2005 00:00:00 GMT
With no serious changes in Head Start in prospect, and with splintered funding for preschool programs continuing, millions of poor and minority children will still be ill-prepared for the rigors of schooling. Ron Haskins explores policy options.
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Wed, 01 Jun 2005 00:00:00 GMT
Article by Ron Haskins, Education Next (Summer 2005)
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Tue, 01 Mar 2005 00:00:00 GMT
Future of Children Brief by Ron Haskins and Cecilia Rouse (Spring 2005)
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Thu, 17 Feb 2005 00:00:00 GMT
Testimony by Ron Haskins, House Committee on the Budget (2/17/05)
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Thu, 10 Feb 2005 00:00:00 GMT
Testimony by Ron Haskins, House Committee on Ways and Means, Subcommittee on Human Resources (2/10/05)
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Tue, 01 Jun 2004 00:00:00 GMT
Future of Children Brief by Ron Haskins, Mark Greenberg, and Shawn Fremstad (Summer 2004)
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Mon, 31 May 2004 00:00:00 GMT
Interview with Ron Haskins (5/31/04)
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Wed, 05 May 2004 00:00:00 GMT
Testimony of Ron Haskins (5/05/04)
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Mon, 19 Jan 2004 00:00:00 GMT
Article by Bill Archer, Rep. E. Clay Shaw Jr., and Ron Haskins (1/19/2004)
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Thu, 01 Jan 2004 00:00:00 GMT
Ron Haskins examines President Bush's proposal to reform Head Start and Congress's response.
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Mon, 01 Sep 2003 00:00:00 GMT
WR&B Policy Brief by Ron Haskins and Isabel Sawhill (9/2003
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Wed, 02 Jul 2003 00:00:00 GMT
Ron Haskins and Isabel Sawhill discuss President Bush's Head Start proposal and argue that, given the vital importance of education to achieving equality of opportunity, the nation must find ways to improve both preschool education and the K through 12 school system.
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Mon, 19 May 2003 00:00:00 GMT
This powerpoint by Ron Haskins provides an overview of income and employment trends over the last several years for families likely to have been affected by 1996 reforms to the federal welfare law.
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Thu, 01 May 2003 00:00:00 GMT
Although Congress did not reach a compromise last year, Republicans and Democrats and the House and Senate are not that far apart on welfare reform legislation, argues Ron Haskins and Paul Offner
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Thu, 20 Feb 2003 00:00:00 GMT
Testimony of Ron Haskins, Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, before the Committee on Finance, February 20, 2003
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Tue, 30 Apr 2002 00:00:00 GMT
The Brookings Institutions Welfare Reform & Beyond Initiative was created to inform the critical policy debates surrounding the upcoming congressional reauthorization of the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program and a number of rela
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Sat, 02 Mar 2002 00:00:00 GMT
Isabel Sawhill and Ron Haskins provide an overview of work support programs and examine the pros and cons of proposals to expand them.
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Sat, 02 Feb 2002 00:00:00 GMT
Michael Fix and Ron Haskins discuss one of the more contentious issues in the 1996 welfare reform debate on whether the federal government should provide welfare benefits to non-citizens who are legal residents of the United States.
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Tue, 13 Nov 2001 00:00:00 GMT
Opinion by Ron Haskins, Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institution, in The Washington Post, Novmber 13, 2001
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Thu, 20 Sep 2001 00:00:00 GMT
Ron Haskins Remarks to the U.S. House Committee on Education and the Workforce
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Tue, 18 Sep 2001 00:00:00 GMT
The sweeping welfare reform legislation of 1996 will soon be up before Congress for reauthorization. The need for reauthorization presents an opportunity to assess what welfare reform has accomplished and what remains to be done. The New World of Wel
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Wed, 01 Aug 2001 00:00:00 GMT
Ron Haskins Remarks to the U.S. House Committee on the Budget: August 1, 2001
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Sun, 01 Jul 2001 00:00:00 GMT
Ron Haskins and Wendell Primus begin their discussion with a rendition of the facts about poverty on which there is broad agreement. After that, they address a number of policies aimed at reducing child poverty that they expect to dominate the reauthorization debate.
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Thu, 28 Jun 2001 00:00:00 GMT
Ron Haskins Remarks to the U.S. House Subcommittee on Human Resources, Committee on Ways and Means, June 28, 2001
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Wed, 27 Jun 2001 00:00:00 GMT
Ron Haskins Remarks to the U.S. House Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition, and Forestry, Committee on Agriculture, June 27, 2001
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Fri, 01 Jun 2001 00:00:00 GMT
Brookings Review article by Ron Haskins (Summer 2001)
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Wed, 14 Feb 2001 00:00:00 GMT
Opinion by Ron Haskins, Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institution, and Rebecca Blank, Dean, Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan, in The Washington Post, February 14, 2001
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Mon, 01 Jan 2001 00:00:00 GMT
Isabel V. Sawhill, R. Kent Weaver, and Ron Haskins turn their attention to issues and problems that researchers and advocates believe need to be addressed in reauthorization.
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Mon, 01 Jan 2001 00:00:00 GMT
Isabel V. Sawhill, R. Kent Weaver, and Ron Haskins discuss the effects of welfare reform legislation, and a number of issues and problems raised by researchers and advocates, who believe must be addressed in reauthorization.