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September 3, 2024
Event: New Census Data on American Families’ Economic Well-Being
…us for a lunchtime conversation on the new census data, where the nation’s leading experts will assess the economy’s performance and determine what it means for American families’ prosperity. Submit…
August 26, 2024
Vouching for Self-Sufficiency
…that “voucher receipt increases violent crime, and that this increase is driven by men.” The voucher program is not going away. It now outstrips public housing projects nationwide as the…
August 23, 2024
Can Kamala Harris Learn the Housing Lessons from Her Own History?
…to help make payments. California’s bungalows were part of a nationwide trend of naturally occurring affordable housing: row houses in Philadelphia and Baltimore, three-decker houses in New England, and two-flats…
August 16, 2024
The Harris Campaign’s Foolish Down-Payment-Assistance Scheme
On the surface, Kamala Harris’s proposal to provide $25,000 in down-payment assistance to first-time homebuyers looks to be an incentive for upward mobility. Historically, homeownership has been the foundation for wealth creation for…
June 20, 2024
The War on Poverty at 60: Lessons to Inform the Future
…panel examined poverty measurement. Panelists agreed that the official poverty measure is outdated and should no longer be used by government agencies. David Johnson from the National Academies of Sciences,…
June 18, 2024
Economic Opportunity and Social Mobility
…since in early 2009, it wasn’t clear that the nation had escaped the financial crisis that had begun just months earlier. The unemployment rate back then was at about 8%…
May 24, 2024
The First National Calculation of Mortality of the US Homeless Population
…that provides the first national calculation of mortality for the US homeless population (Meyer et al. 2023). We calculate mortality by linking 139,000 adults recorded as sheltered and unsheltered homeless…
March 25, 2024
Families Slip Back Into Poverty After Pandemic-Era Child Tax Credit Expires
…and deaths. John Yang: Widespread economic damage is becoming clearer. Amna Nawaz: As the nation shut down, Chatman lost her job. Dafnee Chatman: The best way I can explain it…
March 14, 2024
The Chipping Away at Safe Haven Laws
…baby, inquire about whether their relatives might want to care for the baby, and find out if the infant is of Native American ancestry. “How is this possible that this…
February 27, 2024
Options for Improving the Child Tax Credit Provisions in H.R. 7024, the Tax Relief for American Families and Workers Act of 2024
…on the bigger tax reform debate over the horizon in 2025. Throughout our nation’s history, until 2020, only in the three years following World War II was the national debt…