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• Spending on Children and the Elderly

  Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT

  The United States spends 2.4 times as much on the elderly as on children, measured on a per capita basis, with the ratio rising to 7 to 1 if looking just at the federal budget, Julia Isaacs finds. She looks at expenditures on children and the elderly in the United States compared to other countries and, from a life-cycle perspective, asks whether these spending patterns makes sense for the long-term good of our country.

• California’s Work-to-Welfare Policy

  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.

• Target Compliance: The Final Frontier of Policy Implementation

  Wed, 30 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMT

  
  Voters elect governments to solve social problems and governments design and implement an array of programs to ensure the public good. However, little theoretical attention has been devoted to the final step of the implementation chain: explanations of why the targets of public policies do or do not “comply” with those policies. Kent Weaver focuses on why program “targets” frequently fail to act in the way that program designers intended and wanted, even when it appears to be in their self-interest to do so.

• The Threat to Work

  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.

• How to Reverse the Trend of Concentrated Poverty

  Sun, 28 Dec 2008 00:00:00 GMT

  Alan Berube urges policy-makers to evaluate short-term opportunities and set long-term strategies in order to help Cleveland’s next generation of residents overcome the challenges of concentrated poverty.

• Making Work Pay – Again

  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.

• Economic Stimulus Act: Hard to Kill Two Birds with One Stone

  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.

• Sharing a Passion for Getting the Policy Right

  Thu, 08 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

  The following remarks were delivered by Alice Rivlin upon accepting the Inaugural Daniel Patrick Moynihan Prize on May 8th, 2008 at the The American Academy of Political and Social Science.  In addition to speaking about her relationship with Moynihan, Rivlin spoke about the issues of welfare and race.

• Helping Disconnected Single Mothers

  Wed, 07 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT

  
  There are a growing number of low-income single mothers who are long-term welfare recipients or are without steady employment. They tend to face more barriers to stable employment, with less education, younger children, higher rates of mental and physical health problems and substance abuse, and a history of domestic violence. In this brief, Rebecca Blank and Brian Kovak propose a new program to link these mothers to medical and economic support and give them greater assistance in securing employment.

• Helping Disconnected and Hard-to-Employ Single Mothers

  Wed, 07 May 2008 09:00:00 GMT

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  • May 07, 2008, 9:00 AM to 11:15 AM

  The Center on Children and Families and the National Poverty Center at the University of Michigan's Ford School of Public Policy held a forum to discuss the policy challenges posed by single mothers who have not been able to find stable employment and who may have used up their Temporary Assistance for Needy Families eligibility or face sanctions. These women head the families that are most vulnerable to the current economic downswing.

• Assessing Federal Employment Accessibility Policy: An Analysis of the JARC Program

  Thu, 21 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMT

  In this report, the authors review the past 40 years of federal policy toward transportation mobility for low-income workers, including the most recent Job Access and Reverse Commute (JARC) program, administered by the Federal Transit Administration (FTA).

• Attacking Poverty and Inequality

  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.

• Antipoverty Policies: Incentives and Work Mandates for Young Men

  Thu, 20 Sep 2007 09:00:00 GMT

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  • September 20, 2007, 9:00 AM to 11:00 AM
  
  

  Although the nation is no longer achieving major reductions in poverty as it did during the 1960s, some gains have been made in recent years, especially among single mothers. But more progress is needed in focusing antipoverty efforts on men. Panelists at this event explored two sets of public policies – wage subsidies and work requirements – that hold promise for helping young men increase their employment and earnings.

• Modernizing Unemployment Insurance

  Wed, 19 Sep 2007 00:00:00 GMT

  Jeff Kling testified that more permanent job loss with large wage losses requires the nation to modernize the unemployment system.

• Fighting Poverty through Incentives and Work Mandates for Young Men

  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.

• New Kids on the Block

  Sat, 01 Sep 2007 00:00:00 GMT

  Article by Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, Greg J. Duncan, Jeffrey R. Kling and Lisa Sanbonmatsu (08/14/07)

• Welfare to (Non-Traditional) Work?

  Fri, 03 Aug 2007 00:00:00 GMT

  Interview with Ron Haskins (08/03/07)

• The Importance of the EITC to Urban Economies

  Fri, 13 Jul 2007 00:00:00 GMT

  Though most do not recognize it as an "urban" program, the Earned Income Tax Credit provides significant benefits to families in cities and suburbs, and stimulates local economic activity. In this presentation to Congressional staff organized by Living Cities, Alan Berube examines what Members can do to maximize the benefits of the EITC for lower-income families and communities in their districts.

• The Rise Of the Bottom Fifth: How to Build on the Gains Of Welfare Reform

  Tue, 29 May 2007 00:00:00 GMT

  Article by Ron Haskins (05/29/07)

• Consumed by Capitalism

  Thu, 17 May 2007 14:00:00 GMT

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  • May 17, 2007, 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM
  
  

  Political theorist Benjamin R. Barber argues in his new book, Consumed: How Markets Corrupt Children, Infantilize Adults, and Swallow Citizens Whole (W.W. Norton, 2007), that capitalism has generated a culture that idealizes youth and is obsessed with consumption. This over-commercialization of our culture, Barber contends, poses a serious threat to democracy and civilized society. On May 17, Barber discussed Consumed with Will Wilkinson of the Cato Institute and Brookings senior fellow E.J. Dionne, Jr. Wilkinson is the managing editor of Cato Unbound, which engages experts and the public in contemplating big-picture societal concerns; Dionne has written extensively on civic engagement and civil society.

• Economic Mobility: Is the American Dream Alive and Well?

  Tue, 01 May 2007 00:00:00 GMT

  For more than two centuries, economic opportunity and the prospect of upward mobility have formed the bedrock upon which the American story has been anchored — inspiring people in distant lands to seek our shores and sustaining the unwavering optimism of Americans at home.

• Ending Poverty in America: Using Carrots and Sticks

  Tue, 01 May 2007 00:00:00 GMT

  Article by Ron Haskins and Isabel V. Sawhill (May 2007)

• Solutions to Poverty

  Thu, 26 Apr 2007 00:00:00 GMT

  Testimony by Isabel V. Sawhill (April 26, 2007)

• Attacking Poverty and Inequality: Reinvigorate the Fight for Greater Opportunity

  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.

• The Earned Income Tax Credit

  Thu, 22 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT

  Testimony by Ron Haskins (2/22/07)

• The Geography of U.S. Poverty and its Implications

  Tue, 13 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT

  Alan Berube's testimony on on economic opportunity and poverty in America before the Committtee on Ways and Means on Income Security and Family Support.

• Poverty, Work, and Policy: The United States in Comparative Perspective

  Tue, 13 Feb 2007 00:00:00 GMT

  Testimony by Gary Burtless and Timothy Smeeding (02/13/07)

• Alleviating Child Poverty in the Long Run

  Wed, 24 Jan 2007 00:00:00 GMT

  Testimony by Ron Haskins, House Committee on Ways and Means (1/24/07)

• Has U.S. Income Inequality Really Increased?

  Thu, 11 Jan 2007 00:00:00 GMT

  Paper by Gary Burtless (January 11, 2007)

• Give Credit Where Credit is Due: Increasing Access to Affordable Mainstream Credit Using Alternative Data

  Fri, 01 Dec 2006 00:00:00 GMT

  Report by Alyssa Stewart Lee Brookings 12-18-2006

• Work Over Welfare: Welfare Reform Ten Years Later

  Thu, 16 Nov 2006 09:00:00 GMT

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  • November 16, 2006, 9:00 AM to 11:00 AM

   

• Using EITC to Stimulate Local Economies

  Wed, 01 Nov 2006 00:00:00 GMT

  Local and regional leaders across the U.S. have come to view the Earned Income Tax Credit as a critical investment in their economies. This paper explores the benefits to families and communities that can result from actions to realize the full potential of the credit.

• Measuring Work Support Benefits at the State and Local Level

  Wed, 25 Oct 2006 00:00:00 GMT

  In this presentation at the Ford Foundation, Alan Berube reviews the importance of understanding public program participation among eligible families and how better coordinated research could assist growing efforts to connect workers and their famili

• A Vision for a Healthier D.C .

  Thu, 19 Oct 2006 00:00:00 GMT

  In remarks at the 2006 Annual Meeting of the D.C. Primary Care Association, Alice M. Rivlin laid out a vision for a healthier District of Columbia.

• The Gender Perspective: What Difference Does it Make?

  Wed, 11 Oct 2006 00:00:00 GMT

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  • October 11, 2006 at 12:00 AM

   

• Leaders Among Us: Developing a Community Health Worker Program in Washington, D.C.

  Sun, 01 Oct 2006 00:00:00 GMT

  Washington, D.C. needs a strategy to better connect low-income and uninsured residents with high-quality primary care medical services. This paper recommends the development of a citywide community health worker program.

• Health Status and Access to Care Among Low-Income Washington, D.C. Residents

  Sun, 01 Oct 2006 00:00:00 GMT

  Low-income residents of Washington, D.C. consistently have worse health outcomes and less access to health care than more affluent residents. This paper, part of the D.C. Primary Care Association's Medical Homes D.C. initiative, is jointly authored b

• Metropolitan Poverty in the United States

  Thu, 28 Sep 2006 00:00:00 GMT

  In this presentation to the Cambridge-MIT Institute's workshop on poverty and place in the United States and United Kingdom, Alan Berube reviews recent trends in the spatial distribution of poor populations in the United States, discusses how place a

• Interview: Welfare reform, 10 years later

  Thu, 24 Aug 2006 00:00:00 GMT

  An Interview with Ron Haskins

• Welfare Reform Changes Women's Lives

  Tue, 22 Aug 2006 00:00:00 GMT

  An NPR Interview with Ron Haskins

• Welfare Reform, 10 Years Later

  Sun, 20 Aug 2006 00:00:00 GMT

  Opinion by Ron Haskins (8/18/2006)

• Welfare Revisited: Young Men Need Incentives

  Sat, 19 Aug 2006 00:00:00 GMT

  Ron Haskins' NPR Op-Ed about Welfare Reform

• Ten Years of Welfare Reform

  Thu, 17 Aug 2006 00:00:00 GMT

  Ron Haskins' appearance on NPR's Talk of the Nation

• Poor Should Get More for Their Money

  Mon, 07 Aug 2006 00:00:00 GMT

  Increasing in the minimum wage has to be paired with a national campaign to lower the higher prices being paid by the poor today.

• New Goals and Outcomes for Temporary Assistance: State Choices in the Decade after Enactment

  Tue, 01 Aug 2006 00:00:00 GMT

  This analysis reviews spending decisions nationwide and in three states, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, under the Temporary Assistance program since its enactment in 1996.

• Kids in the City: Indicators of Child Well-Being in Large Cities from the 2004 American Community Survey

  Tue, 01 Aug 2006 00:00:00 GMT

  This report analyses the data from the Census Bureau's 2004 American Community Survey on the 50-largest cities in the U.S.

• Welfare Check

  Thu, 27 Jul 2006 00:00:00 GMT

  Ron Haskins Opinion Appearing in the Wall Street Journal, July 27, 2006

• Waging a Living: The Struggles of America's Low-Wage Workers

  Wed, 26 Jul 2006 09:00:00 GMT

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  • July 26, 2006, 9:00 AM to 10:45 AM

  Following the preview of a new PBS doucmentary, "Waging a Living," Brookings hosted a panel discussion with leading experts and program directors to address the obstacles facing low-income workers and steps that can be taken by employers and federal, state and local policy-makers to provide better lives for their families.

• The Outcomes of 1996 Welfare Reform

  Wed, 19 Jul 2006 00:00:00 GMT

  Testimony by Ron Haskins, House Committee on Ways and Means (7/19/06)

• Expanding the Envelope of Anti-Poverty Initiatives: State Innovations and Innovators

  Tue, 18 Jul 2006 09:00:00 GMT

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  • July 18, 2006, 9:00 AM to 11:00 AM

   

• Racial Division and Concentrated Poverty in U.S. Cities

  Fri, 07 Jul 2006 00:00:00 GMT

  In this presentation, Bruce Katz provides an overview of current patterns of racial and ethnic separation in the United States, using the Chicago, Washington DC, and New Orleans metros as case studies.

• From Poverty, Opportunity: Putting the Market to Work for Lower Income Families

  Sat, 01 Jul 2006 00:00:00 GMT

   

• San Francisco Delivers a Local Earned Income Tax Credit

  Mon, 26 Jun 2006 00:00:00 GMT

  One novel approach from the Bay Area may hold lessons for the rest of urban America.

• Bringing Legal Immigrants into the Mainstream

  Fri, 23 Jun 2006 00:00:00 GMT

  Opinion by Anna Paulson and Audrey Singer, American Banker (6/23/06)

• Task Force on Work, Poverty and Opportunity

  Fri, 02 Jun 2006 00:00:00 GMT

  Before the U.S. Conference of Mayors, Bruce Katz argues that in order for America to make progress toward alleviating poverty and growing a strong and resilient urban middle class, a primary concern must be places of concentrated poverty, neighborhood

• Where Did They Go? The Decline of Middle-Income Neighborhoods in Metropolitan America

  Thu, 01 Jun 2006 00:00:00 GMT

  While middle-income families have declined considerably, middle-class neighborhoods have disappeared even faster in metropolitan areas.

• Review of the Child Well-Being Index

  Wed, 10 May 2006 00:00:00 GMT

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  • May 10, 2006 at 12:00 AM

  The Center on Children and Families held a conference to discuss several issues related to the construction and use of the Index of Child Well-Being (CWI) developed by Ken Land of Duke University with support from the Foundation for Child Development.

• Delivering a Local EITC: Lessons from the San Francisco Working Families Credit

  Mon, 01 May 2006 00:00:00 GMT

  This paper tells the story of the San Francisco Working Families Credit, now in its second year, explaining how the program worked in its first year of operation and describing lessons learned and best practices for those considering developing a sim

• Reducing Unwed Childbearing: The Missing Link in Efforts to Promote Marriage

  Sat, 01 Apr 2006 00:00:00 GMT

  With so much attention on promoting and sustaining marriage among low-income couples who already have children, policymakers risk forgetting about the need to reduce unwed childbearing in the first place. These initiatives are needed for a number of reasons.

• Grounds for Competition: The Basic Financial Service Infrastructure in Low-Income Neighborhoods

  Fri, 17 Mar 2006 00:00:00 GMT

  In this presentation at the University of Delaware, Matt Fellowes showed how rising immigration and the 1996 welfare reform law spurred demand for high-cost financial products that hinder wealth building in low-income neighborhoods.

• Welfare Reform, Success or Failure? It Worked

  Wed, 15 Mar 2006 00:00:00 GMT

  Article by Ron Haskins, APHSA Policy & Practice (03/06)

• The Earned Income Tax Credit at Age 30: An Overview

  Wed, 08 Feb 2006 00:00:00 GMT

  In this presentation to the European Union Labour Counsellors, Alan Berube discusses how the EITC works, whom it benefits, what effects it has on work and poverty, and what issues surround the credit as it enters its 31st year.

• The Potential Value of IRS Data for State/Local Analysis

  Thu, 02 Feb 2006 00:00:00 GMT

  In this presentation to KIDS COUNT grantees, Alan Berube discusses the potential value of using IRS data to describe changing state and local economic conditions and the well-being of children and families.

• The New Safety Net: How the Tax Code Helped Low-Income Working Families During the Early 2000s

  Wed, 01 Feb 2006 00:00:00 GMT

  In this report, Alan Berube examines how receipt of the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) expanded nationwide from 2000 to 2003 in response to a weakened economy.

• The Earned Income Tax Credit at Age 30: What We Know

  Wed, 01 Feb 2006 00:00:00 GMT

  This research brief by Steve Holt reviews the structure and history of the EITC, summarizing key research into the people and places it affects as well as its impact on important socioeconomic measures.

• The Decline of the Underclass

  Sun, 01 Jan 2006 00:00:00 GMT

  Back in the 1970s and the 1980s, there was a high level of concern about the concentration of social ills in poor neighborhoods. At that time, the devastation wrought by the crack epidemic, the rapid rise in out-of-wedlock childbearing, and the high levels of violent crime in the inner cities led a number of journalists and scholars to talk about the emergence of an "underclass." This term was controversial, and over time has fallen out of favor. Nevertheless, the dangerously self-destructive behaviors that gave rise to the underclass debate, and particularly the geographic concentration of these ills in inner cities, were legitimate topics of public concern and led to a burgeoning of research on this group, including attempts to measure its size, composition, and location.

• Redefining Working Family Policy: State Innovation in the Ownership Society

  Wed, 07 Dec 2005 00:00:00 GMT

  In this presentation at the National Conference on State Legislatures Fall 2005 Forum, Matt Fellowes presented how low-income families are fairing in an ownership society. He also discussed the different types of state innovations that benefit low-income working families, their promises and perils.

• High Cost or High Opportunity Cost? Transportation and Family Economic Success

  Fri, 02 Dec 2005 00:00:00 GMT

  In her paper, Margy Waller outlines opportunity costs experienced by transit-dependent poor households, and concludes that when all costs are considered along with benefits of private vehicles, it makes sense to press for more assistance and policies that reduce car ownership costs for poor workers.

• The Metropolitan Market for Alternative Short-Term Loans

  Fri, 02 Dec 2005 00:00:00 GMT

  In this presentation at the annual conference of the Consumer Federation of America, Matt Fellowes discussed the growing number of alternative short-term loan providers in metropolitan areas, particularly in suburban, low-poverty areas. Matt also discussed the numerous public policy and market implications of that growth.

• Block Grants: Flexibility vs. Stability in Social Services

  Thu, 01 Dec 2005 00:00:00 GMT

  In this paper, Margy Waller reviews the history of federal block grants for social services, the academic literature examining block grant outcomes, and recent federal proposals.

• The War on Poverty: Then and Now

  Mon, 14 Nov 2005 18:00:00 GMT

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  • November 14, 2005, 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM

• Housing Families Displaced by Katrina: A Review of the Federal Response to Date

  Tue, 01 Nov 2005 00:00:00 GMT

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• Katrina's Window: Confronting Concentrated Poverty Across America

  Sat, 01 Oct 2005 00:00:00 GMT

• In Katrina's Wake, Who Will Return?

  Tue, 27 Sep 2005 00:00:00 GMT

  Even as plans are announced to encourage people to return to New Orleans and other Gulf Coast communities, America remains unprepared for the most realistic alternative for many - resettlement elsewhere.

• Defining the Policy and Market Resource Context for Asset Building

  Thu, 22 Sep 2005 00:00:00 GMT

  In this presentation at the NCCED 2005 Annual Conference, Matt Fellowes discussed the family context for expanding asset ownership, the policy and market resource context for asset building, and what are the promises and perils of this policy and market context.

• Overcoming Barriers to Stable Marriage

  Tue, 13 Sep 2005 09:00:00 GMT

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  • September 13, 2005, 9:00 AM to 11:30 AM

• Ageing and Employment Policies : United States

  Mon, 01 Aug 2005 00:00:00 GMT

• The Well-Being of Single-Mother Families After Welfare Reform

  Mon, 01 Aug 2005 00:00:00 GMT

  The 1990s were years of considerable change for single mothers and their children. Congress implemented a series of tax and welfare reforms that encouraged work and discouraged welfare. These changes in welfare policy that "ended welfare as we know it" culminated with the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996, which mandated work requirements and time limits. The Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) was sharply expanded in 1993, so that it raised after-tax earnings by as much as 40 percent and became the largest anti-poverty program for the non-elderly. Other programs that targeted single-mother families also expanded during this period, such as Medicaid, which nearly tripled 2 Bruce D. Meyer is a professor in the Harris School of Public Policy at The University of Chicago. James X. Sullivan is a professor at the University of Notre Dame. its expenditures. These changes, combined with a strong economy, led welfare caseloads to drop sharply and employment to rise. About half as many families were receiving welfare in 1999 as in 1994. After a long period during which employment for single mothers changed little, the fraction of single mothers who worked increased by more than 12 percentage points by the latter part of the 1990s. How did single-mother families fare in this dynamic environment? The answer to this question is more complicated than one might expect.

• Governing Gotham: Lessons from Rudolph Giuliani's Successes and Failures

  Wed, 13 Jul 2005 10:00:00 GMT

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  • July 13, 2005, 10:00 AM to 11:30 AM

• Laboratories of Capitalism: How States Get the Market Right for Working Families

  Thu, 23 Jun 2005 00:00:00 GMT

  In this presentation at the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland 2005 Policy Summit, Matt Fellowes discussed how low-income families are faring in the ownership society, what are the different types of state innovations that benefit low-income working families, and what are the promises and perils of this state innovation.

• Texans Are Missing Out on Food Stamp Benefits

  Fri, 17 Jun 2005 00:00:00 GMT

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• Getting the Market Right for Working Families

  Tue, 14 Jun 2005 00:00:00 GMT

  Bruce Katz testified before the Philadelphia City Council Committee on Commerce and Economic Development on the report he co-authored with Matt Fellowes, titled "The Price is Wrong: Getting the Market Right for Working Families in Philadelphia."

• New Tax Credit Research Offers Information for City Leaders

  Mon, 06 Jun 2005 00:00:00 GMT

  Continued support for low-income taxpayer outreach and volunteer tax preparation can spread important messages about the alternatives to high-price, low-value commercial tax products.

• Tax Policies to Help Working Families in Cities

  Wed, 01 Jun 2005 00:00:00 GMT

  As part of a series of Tax Policy Center papers on tax policy and low-income working families, Alan Berube, William Gale, and Tracy Kornblatt examine the potential of the federal tax code to help lower-income households in cities.

• The ""Underclass"" Revisited : A Social Problem in Decline

  Sun, 01 May 2005 00:00:00 GMT

  Paper by Paul A. Jargowsky and Rebecca Yang (May 2005)

• Leaving Money (and Food) on the Table

  Sun, 01 May 2005 00:00:00 GMT

  In a new paper, Matthew Fellowes and Alan Berube examine the dollar value and use of food stamps among the eligible population, finding that, in 97 large metropolitan areas across the country, $9.1 billion was disbursed to 9.8 million individuals.

• Pennsylvania Can't Afford 2 Economies

  Fri, 08 Apr 2005 00:00:00 GMT

  Pennsylvania has two economies: one for families with middle and high incomes, and another for its low-wage families.

• Jobs-Plus: How to Promote Work in Public Housing

  Fri, 08 Apr 2005 09:30:00 GMT

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  • April 08, 2005, 9:30 AM to 11:30 AM

• The Price Is Wrong (Philadelphia)

  Mon, 04 Apr 2005 00:00:00 GMT

  In their presentation, Bruce Katz and Matt Fellowes delve into the higher prices for everyday goods paid by working families, revealing what causes those costs, and recommending a number of policy approaches to make the market work better for low-income families.

• The Price Is Wrong: Getting the Market Right for Working Families in Philadelphia

  Fri, 01 Apr 2005 00:00:00 GMT

  This report delves into the higher prices for everyday goods paid by working families, revealing what causes those costs, and recommending a number of policy approaches--such as reducing risks to business, giving consumers more marketplace information

• Measuring Child Well-being: Reducing Risky Behavior

  Wed, 30 Mar 2005 09:00:00 GMT

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  • March 30, 2005, 9:00 AM to 11:30 AM

• School Readiness: Closing Racial and Ethnic Gaps

  Tue, 15 Mar 2005 09:00:00 GMT

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  • March 15, 2005, 9:00 AM to 11:00 AM

• The Federal Welfare Debate: Is Congress Deserting Working Families?

  Fri, 04 Mar 2005 00:00:00 GMT

  Speech by Margy Waller, Illinois Welfare Policy Symposium (3/4/05)

• Individual Development Accounts: Policies to Build Savings and Assets for the Poor

  Tue, 01 Mar 2005 00:00:00 GMT

  Wealth inequality in America dwarfs income inequality, with low levels of asset ownership affecting a majority of the country. Thus the bottom 60 percent of the nation collectively possesses less than 5 percent of the nation’s wealth. Broadening the ownership of assets—through IDAs, children’s savings accounts, and targeted tax subsidies for wealth accumulation—may help expand economic security and opportunity for the nation’s poor.

• Domestic Entitlement Programs

  Thu, 17 Feb 2005 00:00:00 GMT

  Testimony by Ron Haskins, House Committee on the Budget (2/17/05)

• The Future of the Personal Responsibility, Work, and Family Promotion Act

  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)

• Happiness: Lessons from a New Science

  Wed, 09 Feb 2005 16:00:00 GMT

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  • February 09, 2005, 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM

• Does Inequality Matter to Individual Welfare? An Initial Exploration Based on Happiness Surveys from Latin America

  Sat, 01 Jan 2005 00:00:00 GMT

  CSED working paper 38 on perceptions of inequality among Latin Americans

• Good Side of Health Costs

  Tue, 21 Dec 2004 00:00:00 GMT

  Doom and gloom enshrouds the nation’s runaway health spending, but one bright spot remains the jobs it generates in cities--especially for low-income workers.

• Policies for Children in Immigrant Families

  Thu, 16 Dec 2004 09:00:00 GMT

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  • December 16, 2004, 9:00 AM to 11:00 AM