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November 21, 2023
Defining Poverty Up
…the OPM. Even worse, as my AEI colleague Kevin Corinth has shown, the SPM’s poverty guideline would grow rapidly over time, defining more American families as “in poverty” each passing year:…
November 14, 2023
The Impact of Opportunity Zones on Private Investment and Economic Activity
Abstract Place-based policies aim to stimulate economic development in disadvantaged areas with the goal of improving the well-being of residents. A provision of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act aimed…
November 14, 2023
Did Child Poverty Really Increase Last Year?
…and, as Meyer and my colleague Kevin Corinth have demonstrated, joblessness, both of which would hurt the most disadvantaged children. Nor was I wrong about the short-term poverty-reducing effect of a temporary CTC…
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
…Kevin Corinth, and I am a Senior Fellow and the Deputy Director of the Center on Opportunity and Social Mobility at the American Enterprise Institute. This testimony reflects my personal…
October 17, 2023
Understanding Poverty Measurement
…Burkhauser then discussed the history of poverty measurement, the weaknesses of the official poverty measure, and what an improved measure indicates about our success in reducing poverty. Next, Kevin Corinth…
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
In this post I discuss the policy implications of declaring the Supplemental Poverty Measure the new official measure, an action that could be taken unilaterally by the Director of the…
September 12, 2023
Measuring Poverty: The New Census Estimates and the Future of Poverty Measurement
…video will be posted within 24 hours. Agenda 11:30 a.m. Introduction: Kevin Corinth, Deputy Director, Center on Opportunity and Social Mobility, AEI 11:35 a.m. Panel I: A Discussion of the…
August 9, 2023
The CTC Work Incentive Works
…CTC’s work incentive. Research from our AEI colleagues Kevin Corinth and Bruce Meyer found that removing the credit’s phase in permanently could have caused up to 1.5 million workers to leave…