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Welfare Reform and Its Discontents
…groups unaffected by welfare reform, such as college-educated married couples.27 After addressing known problems with the survey data, I found extreme poverty was practically non-existent. Bruce Meyer and his colleagues…
Op-Ed
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…
Commentary
Assessing Duplicative Federal Benefit Programs and Preventing Abuse
…2021, https://www.aei.org/opportunity-social-mobility/turning-back-the-clock-on-welfare-reform/. [40] Howard Husock and Bruce D. Meyer, “Subsidized Housing and Upward Mobility,” National Affairs, Fall 2025, https://www.nationalaffairs.com/publications/detail/subsidized-housing-and-upward-mobility. [41] Gilbert Crouse et al., Welfare Indicators and Risk Factors: 24th Report to Congress, US Department of…
Op-Ed
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…