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A Safety Net for the Future: Overcoming the Root Causes of Poverty
Few conservative domestic policy achievements over the past 40 years have been as important as the welfare reforms of the 1990s. These reforms initially comprised innovative state experiments authorized by…
Report
Bringing Home the Bacon: Have Trends in Men’s Pay Weakened the Traditional Family?
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Working Paper
Was Rising Inequality Behind Falling Absolute Mobility? Reassessing Chetty et al. (2017)
In 2017, a widely publicized paper by a research team led by Harvard economist Raj Chetty found that while the vast majority of American kids born in 1940 ended up…
Op-Ed
Second Time’s the Charm?
…a lot of conservatives clarify our priorities, goals, and arguments. The two of us were on opposite sides of the Romney proposal — Winship in opposition and Levin in support. Everyone involved supported…
Report
Addressing the Shortcomings of the Supplemental Poverty Measure
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