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September 12, 2023
Measuring Poverty: The New Census Estimates and the Future of Poverty Measurement
…video will be posted within 24 hours. Agenda 11:30 a.m. Introduction: Kevin Corinth, Deputy Director, Center on Opportunity and Social Mobility, AEI 11:35 a.m. Panel I: A Discussion of the…
June 21, 2023
The Bad Math Behind Economic Doomerism
It’s a big week for American Compass, a think tank founded in 2020 that fancies itself as the “pre-eminent alternative to the Old Right’s market fundamentalism.” On the heels of its new…
May 10, 2023
The Effects of Elevating the Supplemental Poverty Measure on Government Program Eligibility and Spending
…Medicaid spending would be $78 billion higher. Thus, basing the U.S. poverty guidelines on the SPM would increase government spending by at least $124 billion over the next decade. Corinth-The-Effects-of-Elevating-the-Supplemental-Poverty-Measure-WPDownload…
May 5, 2023
Wrong Diagnosis, Wrong Prescription
Princeton sociologist Matthew Desmond’s previous book, Evicted, offered a compelling account of poverty in America. Illuminating and thought-provoking, its ethnographic accounts of deep struggle spurred new research and increased policy focus on the links…