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September 27, 2024
Food Insecurity Increases Driven by Middle- and High-Income Households
…22.3 20.0 21.8 Third Quintile 19.8 17.4 19.6 20.1 Fourth Quintile 19.9 16.2 20.0 15.2 Fifth Quintile 20.8 17.8 20.8 14.8 *Note: Household incomes are calculated by taking the median…
September 24, 2024
Household Food Insecurity Rises Again – Inflation, especially for households ineligible for safety net programs, to blame
…economic conditions—such as the poverty rate, the unemployment rate, median income, and homeownership—to assess whether changes in these economic factors appeared to explain the rise in food insecurity rates. Overall,…
July 26, 2024
Two Cheers for Shrinking Black-White Opportunity Gaps
…Chetty and his coauthors. They just didn’t deteriorate as badly as among white kids raised poor. This was true of average and median household income, reaching the top fifth of…
July 10, 2024
Has Income Growth between Generations of Americans Stalled?
…X and millennials. The median household income of 36-to-40-year-olds from the silent generation was 34 percent higher than that of the Greatest Generation. The median income of baby boomers in…
May 8, 2024
USDA Report Highlights Subjectivity of Food Insecurity Measure
…surprise that economically disadvantaged groups—such as American Indian, black and Hispanic Americans—reported substantially higher food insecurity rates than other racial and ethnic groups. For example, only 5.4 percent of Asian…
March 4, 2024
Social conservatives who care about marriage should think twice about a “per-child” refundable Child Tax Credit
…benefit parameters that took effect October 1, 2023. Shelter costs are assumed to be $1,146 monthly for a single parent without children (median gross rent for a one-bedroom apartment in…
February 8, 2024
Another Flawed Analysis Shows that Single Mothers are Highly Sensitive to Changes in Work Incentives
…and consistent with elasticity estimates in Bastian’s own work. Bastian begins by calculating the mean across working single mothers of their average tax rate, doing so in every year from…
January 30, 2024
How Sensitive Are Single Mothers’ Work Decisions to a Change in Incentives? Correcting Misperceptions of the Evidence
…et al. (2021, rev 2022), p. A-21; single mothers and single mothers w/ hs or less; unpublished Bastian (2020) 0.6 — lower Appendix D; single mothers Bastian and Jones (2021)…
December 11, 2023
Has Inequality Made Americans Poorer than Bulgarians, Russians, and Filipinos?
…is a function of cultural preferences, not income inequality. Also worth noting: based on my analyses of the LIS, median income in the US is higher than in any of…
October 5, 2023
Do 60 Percent Of American Workers Have Insecure Jobs?
…at least $40,000 in 2022. Not too different from American Compass. Incidentally, the median female worker in this group earned $45,000. American Compass has selected an initial criterion for job…