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The Ongoing Battle to Defend Welfare Reform
…debunked, first by one of us (Winship) and then by Bruce Meyer and his colleagues. Winship found that essentially no children resided in families that lived on $2 a day per person…
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Parent-School Partnerships Can Drive Academic Gains. Here’s How
…Heroes is Bibb Hubbard, who came to this work from senior roles in the Clinton administration, Widmeyer Communications, and the Gates Foundation. I thought it would be a good time…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Not Just Tulsa
…were doing blacks a favor by including them in these programs. Many then viewed public housing as desirable quarters. As Edward Banfield and Martin Meyerson wrote in their landmark book…