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January 26, 2024
Please Congress: Make Fiscal Sanity a Priority
…on out-of-control federal spending, reducing the deficit, and bringing down our national debt. And yet, when an obvious opportunity falls in their lap to reduce federal spending, cut the deficit,…
December 26, 2023
Safe-Injection Sites and Crime
…under medical supervision and on the neighborhoods where they are located—is thus of national significance. Other states, cities, and the federal government are doubtless closely watching these two experiments. That…
December 21, 2023
Our Policies to Address Homelessness Are Failing
…record for a single-year increase. Our homeless population is now the largest it has ever been. Policy-makers must wake up to this national crisis. Our current approach is broken, and…
December 18, 2023
No Excuses Now for NYCHA
…liked to blame the decline of what was once the nation’s best-managed public-housing system on someone who left office in 1989: Ronald Reagan. Now, thanks to the results of an…
November 30, 2023
A Valuable New Perspective on America’s War on Poverty
…interesting — perhaps even perspective-altering. For example: Do you think America neglects the poor? Sure, the national poverty rate has fallen by half since the 1960s, from 19.5 percent in 1963…
November 21, 2023
Defining Poverty Up
…a National Academies of Sciences panel who published a report earlier this year titled “An Updated Measure of Poverty: (Re)Drawing the Line.” The authors proposed that the Census Bureau’s supplemental poverty…
October 30, 2023
The Effect of Elevating the Supplemental Poverty Measure on Government Program Eligibility and Spending
Abstract A recent National Academy of Sciences report recommends elevating the Supplemental Poverty Measure (SPM) to the “nation’s headline poverty statistic.” I project how making the SPM the official poverty…
October 24, 2023
Testimony: The Consequences of Redrawing the Poverty Line
…much is “enough” can be determined by science. If the SPM were elevated to the “nation’s headline poverty statistic,” the key recommendation of a recent National Academies of Sciences, Engineering,…
October 24, 2023
Testimony: Hearing on Measuring Poverty
…have worked for or been a long-term advisor to the main federal agencies producing poverty statistics. This hearing is occurring because a recent National Academy of Sciences report commissioned by…
October 17, 2023
Understanding Poverty Measurement
COSM scholars and AEI affiliates include some of the nation’s foremost experts on poverty measurement. On October 17, COSM gathered several of these scholars to provide a primer on opportunity…