Center on Children and Families

Senate Budget Committee chairman Senator Patty Murray (D-WA) (R) and House Budget Committee chairman Representative Paul Ryan (R-WI) hold a news conference to introduce The Bipartisan Budget Act of 2013 at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, December 10, 2013. Budget negotiators in the U.S. Congress have reached an agreement on Tuesday that, if approved by the House and Senate, could restore some order to the nation's chaotic budget process and avoid another government shutdown on Jan. 15. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS BUSINESS) - GM1E9CB0MD701

Time for action to improve government data analysis

Ron Haskins and Katharine Abraham

Tuesday, September 18, 2018

A family hold hands as they walk through Times Square during a warm winter day in New York March 6, 2012. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson (UNITED STATES - Tags: ENVIRONMENT SOCIETY) - GM1E8370EKC01

Income data from the Census may not tell full story on trends

Gary Burtless and Christopher Pulliam

Monday, September 17, 2018

The forgotten Americans: An economic agenda for a divided nation

2:00 PM - 4:00 PM EDT

Lisa Collinsworth holds her infant son Luke during a visit with him at Lily's Place, a treatment center for opioid-dependent newborns in Huntington, West Virginia, October 19, 2015. Picture taken October 19, 2015. To match Special Report BABY-OPIOIDS/ REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst - GF10000257893

A path forward on paid family leave

Aparna Mathur and Isabel V. Sawhill

Monday, September 10, 2018

Joe Smith rides on a swing with his daughter Rowan as his wife Andrea plays with her children Norah and Chase at a playground in Winthrop Harbor, Illinois, May 9, 2014. Three of their children have been diagnosed with atypical Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome, and one is a carrier which was diagnosed using genome sequencing. Once strictly the domain of research labs, gene-sequencing tests increasingly are being used to help understand the genetic causes of rare disease, putting insurance companies in the position of deciding whether to pay the $5,000 to $17,000 for the tests. Genetics experts say that sequencing more than doubles the chances that families get a diagnosis, and saves spending on multiple tests of single genes. Even if no treatment is found, the tests can also end hugely expensive medical odysseys as parents frantically search for the cause of their child's furtive illness. Picture taken May 9, 2014. To match Insight HEALTH-SEQUENCING/ REUTERS/Jim Young (UNITED STATES - Tags: SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY HEALTH SOCIETY BUSINESS) - GM1EA6J1MA301

People in the middle of the middle are richer than those in the middle, says Pew. Mmm.

Richard V. Reeves and Christopher Pulliam

Friday, September 7, 2018

A mother swings her young son as they visit the cherry blossoms along the tidal basin in Washington April 2, 2007. REUTERS/Jason Reed (UNITED STATES) - GM1DUYKXVVAA

The Middle Class: Our Definition

Richard V. Reeves and Katherine Guyot

Tuesday, September 4, 2018

A family holds hands as they cross the street on the first day of Spring in New York, NY, U.S. March 20, 2017. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson - RC1C40DCE220

The rise of the middle class safety net

Richard V. Reeves and Christopher Pulliam

Tuesday, September 4, 2018

Women wait in line for an interview at the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Coney Island Boom A Ring Job Fair in New York May 27, 2009. There will be 200 jobs available for anyone age 16 and older starting June 18 thru September 7 on the boardwalk in Coney Island. The U.S. housing bust and auto sector upheaval have left hundreds of thousands of workers looking for jobs in the same sectors, in the same places, and at the same time. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton (UNITED STATES EMPLOYMENT BUSINESS SOCIETY) - GM1E55S0H4001

New evidence that losing your job is even more stressful for black Americans

Tuesday, August 21, 2018

Students eat lunch in the cafeteria at a middle school in San Diego, California March 7, 2011. San Diego's Healthy Works Project received the country's largest grant, 16 million dollars, from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act 2009 to help combat wellness and the obesity epidemic. Picture taken March 7, 2011. To match Special Report USA-FOODLOBBY/ REUTERS/Mike Blake (UNITED STATES - Tags: HEALTH POLITICS BUSINESS) - GM1E84R1FJZ01

A promising alternative to subsidized lunch receipt as a measure of student poverty

Matthew M. Chingos

Thursday, August 16, 2018

People wait in line at the California Department of Motor Vehicles in Granada Hills January 2, 2015. The California Department of Motor Vehicles on Friday begin issuing driver licenses under AB 60, the new law requiring DMV to issue a driver license to applicants regardless of immigration status in Los Angeles. REUTERS/Gus Ruelas (UNITED STATES - Tags: TRANSPORT POLITICS LAW) - GM1EB121UEN01

The respect deficit

Richard V. Reeves

Thursday, August 9, 2018