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Poverty and Dependency in the United States, 1939–2023
…research brief is based on Richard V. Burkhauser and Kevin Corinth, “Poverty and Dependency in the United States, 1939–2023,” National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper no. 34759, January 2026….
Op-Ed
On the Federal Deficit, Picking the Low-Hanging Fruit Won’t Be Enough
…called for defunding the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which liberals regularly derided as “killing Big Bird.” As Politico reported in 2010, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, and Newt Gingrich all called…
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Poverty and Dependency in the United States, 1939–2023
…the full income measures developed by Burkhauser et al. (2024) for subsequent years. From 1939–1963, poverty fell by 29 percentage points, with even larger declines for Black people and all…
Op-Ed
How Not to Redefine Poverty
…a pre-tax measure, but spending depends on after-tax income. The latter has increased more than pre-tax income. The most comprehensive effort to address these issues is a recent paper by Richard Burkhauser,…
Op-Ed
Reliability of Government Data Often Requires Asterisks, a Hazard That Predates Liberal Gripes About Trump Manipulating Statistics
…Republicans dubbed a “liberal wish list,” the Ways and Means Committee’s chairman, Congressman Richard Neal said in June 2020 that “more than 42 million are out of work.” That figure was apparently…
Op-Ed
The Golden Age of Public Housing—and Why It Didn’t Last
…cut. The Pruitt-Igoe implosion is the perfect symbol of the end of the public housing golden age. It was specifically referenced by President Richard Nixon in 1973 when he announced…
Op-Ed
A Hidden Explanation for the Wealth Gap on Racial Lines That Emerges in the Push to Promote Public Housing
…notably including the housing voucher program initiated in 1973 by Richard Nixon. The housing voucher was judged mainly as positive by comparison with the projects, already symbolized by the implosion…
Op-Ed
The New Era for Nonprofits: America’s Old System of Federally Funded Nonprofits is Gone. What Comes Next?
…co-option. Under the hybrid system, Peter L. Berger and Richard John Neuhaus observed, “the very vitality that originally distinguished the [nonprofit] institutions from government agencies is destroyed. Indeed they become government agencies…
Op-Ed
The ‘Father Divide’ and What it Means for Our Kids
…likely to establish families where dad is absent. In summing up the report, Richard Reeves, the president of the American Institute for Boys and Men and co-author of the report, said, “Dads…
Report
Good Fathers, Flourishing Kids: The Importance of Fatherhood in Virginia
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Op-Ed
Out of Work and On the Dole — Is Uncle Sam Contributing to Young Men’s Malaise?
American men are in trouble. From Richard Reeves’ “Of Boys and Men” to Nicholas Eberstadt’s “Men Without Work,” we have learned that men are opting out of our most important institutions…
Op-Ed
Did ‘China Shock’ Throw Millions of Americans Out of Work?
…edited by Susan B. Carter, Scott Sigmund Gartner, Michael R. Haines, Alan L. Olmstead, Richard Sutch, and Gavin Wright. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/ISBN-9780511132971.Ba652-103210.1017/ISBN-9780511132971.Ba652-1032. Estimates of agricultural employment…