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October 11, 2023
CHANGING THE OFFICIAL POVERTY MEASURE WOULD HELP RICH STATES AND HURT POOR STATES
Earlier this year, a National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine report recommended elevating the Supplemental Poverty Measure (SPM) to the “nation’s headline poverty statistic,” and noted that the Office…
October 5, 2023
Changing the Official Poverty Measure Would Help Rich States and Hurt Poor States
…unnoticed. Earlier this year, a National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine report recommended elevating the Supplemental Poverty Measure (SPM) to the “nation’s headline poverty statistic,” and noted that the…
September 15, 2023
Putting This Year’s Poverty Numbers in Context
…on the SPM doubled. The doubling was a natural result of temporary COVID aid being withdrawn, including the temporarily expanded CTC. However, not only was the SPM child poverty rate…
August 3, 2023
Fight Crime, and Poverty, with Civil Society
…County, in particular, has a much higher crime rate than the national average, and crime has been rising since the COVID lockdowns, which were extraordinarily draconian in PG County. Moore…
July 7, 2023
With Affirmative Action Gone, We Should Focus Admissions Policies on Poverty
…people have a diversity that reflects the country. The nation’s history of slavery and racial discrimination will never be “over” in a final sense, and affirmative action has been useful…
January 7, 2023
Personal Responsibility, Not Victimhood, Is the Path to Success
…schools. Such an approach has substantial public support. A recent study by Nat Malkus at the American Enterprise Institute suggests that the success sequence is quite popular among parents as well as…
July 2, 2021
Addressing the Shortcomings of the Supplemental Poverty Measure
…a National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) panel formed to evaluate and recommend improvements to the SPM. To inform the NASEM panel and the debate on poverty measurement…