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• Keep Politics Away from the Promise of Family Planning

  Thu, 05 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMT

  
  Just before the House approved its version of the stimulus bill, it was stripped of a controversial provision that would have given states the option to expand a Medicaid-funded program subsidizing family planning services for low-income women. Adam Thomas and Isabel Sawhill agree that the family planning provision was rightly stripped from the package, but argue that it is an important program that has the potential to limit the number of unplanned pregnancies, reduce the incidence of abortion, improve child well-being and actually save money in the long-run.

• Analysis of Participation Rate Policy Options

  Wed, 01 May 2002 00:00:00 GMT

  WR&B Discussion Paper by Adam Thomas, Senior Research Analyst, the Brookings Institution, May 2002

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

  Tue, 01 May 2001 00:00:00 GMT

  Paper by Isabel Sawhill, Senior Fellow, and Adam Thomas, Senior Research Analyst, The Brookings Institution, May 2001

• Tax Cut Proposals; Chapter and Verse of a Prudent Compromise

  Sun, 11 Feb 2001 00:00:00 GMT

  Opinion by Isabel Sawhill, Senior Fellow, and Adam Thomas, Senior Research Analyst, The Brookings Institution, in The Houston Chronicle, February 11, 2001

• A Tax Proposal for Working Families with Children

  Mon, 01 Jan 2001 00:00:00 GMT

  In their paper, Isabel Sawhill and Adam Thomas suggest a tax proposal that builds on one of President Bush’s key ideas - an expanded tax credit for families with children - but modifies it in ways that might prove more acceptable to Democrats.

• Gore's Plan Protects the Bottom Third

  Thu, 21 Sep 2000 00:00:00 GMT

  Gore's Plan Protects the Bottom Third, Opinion in the Los Angeles Times, September 21, 2000, by Isabel Sawhill, Senior Fellow, and Adam Thomes, Senior Research Analyst, Economic Studies, The Brookings Institution