A roundup of some of the content published today by Brookings.
- Stuck at the bottom. Elisabeth Jacobs looks at a new paper from BPEA on long-term unemployment and social mobility.
- Benefits of EITC expansion. Melissa Kearney and Lesley Turner say that Sen. Patty Murray’s legislation on EITC changes would increase the return to work for low- and middle-income working families.
- Obama’s quiet but crucial Italy visit. Riccardo Alcaro argues that while President Obama’s visit with Italian PM Renzi was a side event to meeting Pope Francis, it was still important.
- State of the digital news media. Beth Stone reviews new Pew Research on developments in digital native journalism.
Mingwei Ma contributed to this post.
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Brookings Today, 3/27/14
March 27, 2014