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September 24, 2025
Subsidized Housing and Upward Mobility
…Howard Husock is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and author of The Projects: A New History of Public Housing (NYU Press 2025). Bruce D. Meyer is professor of public…
September 8, 2025
A Hidden Explanation for the Wealth Gap on Racial Lines That Emerges in the Push to Promote Public Housing
…and long-term dependency. The average time in public housing is 12 years; in voucher housing, 10. New research I’ve done with the University of Chicago economist Bruce Meyer, based on…
February 22, 2025
Why Long Island Is Hoping Former Cops Will Become Child Protective Services Workers
“It’s incumbent upon us to make sure these children are safe,” Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman said at a press conference recently. “That’s job No. 1.” Blakeman launched a program in 2023…
February 14, 2025
Poverty During the Pandemic and the Role of Government Transfers
…Economic Activity. Meyer, B D, J Han and J X Sullivan (2024), “Poverty, Hardship, and Government Transfers”, NBER Working Paper No. 33052. Meyer, B D, W K C Mok and…
May 30, 2024
The Contradictions in Democrats’ Child Tax Credit Expansion Promises
…not only undo that major achievement, it would disproportionately harm low-income families for whom work is central to escaping poverty for good. Instead, as AEI’s Kevin Corinth, Bruce Meyer, and…
May 24, 2024
The First National Calculation of Mortality of the US Homeless Population
…that provides the first national calculation of mortality for the US homeless population (Meyer et al. 2023). We calculate mortality by linking 139,000 adults recorded as sheltered and unsheltered homeless…
November 14, 2023
Did Child Poverty Really Increase Last Year?
…CTC expansion who argue that its expiration has increased hardship sharply, requiring that it be reenacted—this time permanently. However, a new report from Jeehoon Han, Bruce Meyer, and Jim Sullivan indicates that…
November 3, 2023
A Postcard from Ashkelon
…In Milwaukee, her counterpart as chapter president was one Golda Meyerson, later Golda Meier, who once slept at her house. The postcard came from a place very much on the…
October 25, 2023
The Freedom to Choose
When appraising American social cleavages, we should avoid lapsing into two unfortunate trends in conservative thinking: despair and polarization. In “Conservatism and Class,” Bruce Frohnen argues that conservatives should embrace class analysis albeit in…
August 3, 2023
Philanthropists Discover the Value of “Sunsetting”
…allowing them to have a larger impact in a shorter time. Adam Meyerson, who was head of the Philanthropy Roundtable for almost 20 years, notes that a sunset clause “helps…