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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…
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…
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…