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November 30, 2023
Evaluating the Success of the War on Poverty Since 1963 Using an Absolute Full-Income Poverty Measure
Abstract We evaluate progress in the War on Poverty as President Lyndon B. Johnson defined it, which established a 20% baseline poverty rate and adopted an absolute standard. While the…
November 30, 2023
A Valuable New Perspective on America’s War on Poverty
…an Absolute Full-Income Poverty Measure” by Richard V. Burkhauser (Cornell University), Kevin Corinth (University of Chicago), James Elwell (Joint Committee on Taxation), and Jeff Larrimore (Federal Reserve Board). They try…
November 30, 2023
Evaluating the Success of the War on Poverty since 1963 Using an Absolute Full-Income Poverty Measure
Abstract We evaluate progress in the War on Poverty as President Lyndon B. Johnson defined it, which established a 20% baseline poverty rate and adopted an absolute standard. While the…
November 17, 2023
Male Malaise Is Not Just About ‘the Culture’
…Is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do About It, social scientist Richard V. Reeves explained that boys are falling well behind their female peers. “There are very big gaps in terms…
November 13, 2023
Family’s Place in America’s Social Fabric
The family is arguably the most basic building block of community life.[i] But even as Americans continue to say their own families are centrally important in their lives[ii], family life…
October 27, 2023
What liberals don’t understand about men and marriage
…father in the early 1960s, today only about 51% have that privilege. In the face of what seems like a fraying father-marriage bond, some left-leaning men’s advocates like Richard Reeves would like…
October 17, 2023
Understanding Poverty Measurement
…in the United States. Angela Rachidi began by exploring the meaning of poverty, outlining the most fundamental decisions in measuring it and describing how different measures address those decisions. Richard…
September 12, 2023
Measuring Poverty: The New Census Estimates and the Future of Poverty Measurement
…Kevin Corinth, Deputy Director, Center on Opportunity and Social Mobility, AEI 12:00 p.m. Q&A 12:15 p.m. Lunch 12:30 p.m. Presentation 1: The History of Poverty Measurement Presenter: Richard Burkhauser, Nonresident Senior…
August 28, 2023
Here’s a Kind of Job-Training Program That Works
…replicate the approaches and spirit of the successful models. A new AEI report on this topic—written by Garrett Yursza Warfield of Year Up, Richard Hendra and Kelsey Schaberg of the nonprofit MDRC,…
August 3, 2023
Expanding Economic Opportunities Through Evidence-Based Sector Training
…the federal government and by creating policies that promote fidelity and allow sufficient time for results to be analyzed. In the first report, Scaling the Impact of Sector-Based Employment Strategies, Richard…