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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…
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…