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September 10, 2024
America is Still Working
…using IPUMS microdata. (See Steven Ruggles, Sarah Flood, Matthew Sobek, Daniel Backman, Annie Chen, Grace Cooper, Stephanie Richards, Renae Rodgers, and Megan Schouweiler. IPUMS USA: Version 15.0 [dataset]. Minneapolis, MN:…
July 26, 2024
Two Cheers for Shrinking Black-White Opportunity Gaps
The latest in a series of important reports on social mobility by the research group Opportunity Insights is out, and it’s another conversation-changer. Across a variety of outcomes in adulthood…
June 18, 2024
Economic Opportunity and Social Mobility
…and white Americans. In research I carried out with American Institute for Boys and Men president Richard Reeves, we discovered that black children are much more likely than white children…
April 22, 2024
The Promise and Peril of Civic Renewal: Richard John Neuhaus, Peter L. Berger, and “To Empower People”
On April 22, AEI and the Ethics & Public Policy Center hosted a discussion on the legacy of Richard John Neuhaus and Peter L. Berger’s 1977 book, To Empower People:…
October 17, 2023
Understanding Poverty Measurement
…in the United States. Angela Rachidi began by exploring the meaning of poverty, outlining the most fundamental decisions in measuring it and describing how different measures address those decisions. Richard…
September 12, 2023
Measuring Poverty: The New Census Estimates and the Future of Poverty Measurement
…Kevin Corinth, Deputy Director, Center on Opportunity and Social Mobility, AEI 12:00 p.m. Q&A 12:15 p.m. Lunch 12:30 p.m. Presentation 1: The History of Poverty Measurement Presenter: Richard Burkhauser, Nonresident Senior…
April 18, 2023
Introduction to The Social Breakdown
…Richard John Neuhaus, Robert Nisbet, Michael Novak, William Schambra, and Robert Woodson, the project produced the landmark brief To Empower People: From State to Civil Society, which highlighted the importance of…
June 15, 2022
Second Time’s the Charm?
…This week, Romney (together with fellow Republicans Richard Burr and Steve Daines) has offered a revised version of the idea that might just have what it takes to patch up those differences…
July 2, 2021
Addressing the Shortcomings of the Supplemental Poverty Measure
Key Points The Supplemental Poverty Measure (SPM) partly improves on the Official Poverty Measure but still suffers from several shortcomings that limit its usefulness as an effective poverty measure. The…
June 10, 2021
Long Shadows: The Black-White Gap in Multigenerational Poverty
Key Points This report examines racial disparities in income mobility across three generations by drawing on data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics. More than half a century since…