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September 12, 2023
Measuring Poverty: The New Census Estimates and the Future of Poverty Measurement
…Kevin Corinth, Deputy Director, Center on Opportunity and Social Mobility, AEI 12:00 p.m. Q&A 12:15 p.m. Lunch 12:30 p.m. Presentation 1: The History of Poverty Measurement Presenter: Richard Burkhauser, Nonresident Senior…
May 5, 2023
Wrong Diagnosis, Wrong Prescription
…the poor receive much more from government than they put in. Desmond’s final explanation for poverty is that affluent people hoard opportunity, echoing the arguments popularized by Richard Reeves’s book, Dream…
April 1, 2023
Minimum Wages and Poverty: New Evidence from Dynamic Difference-in-Differences Estimates
Advocates of minimum wage increases have long touted their potential to reduce poverty. This study assesses this claim. Using data spanning nearly four decades from the March Current Population Survey,…
January 7, 2023
Personal Responsibility, Not Victimhood, Is the Path to Success
…adults, as well as for young people who were raised in poor families. Richard Reeves of the Brookings Institution, for instance, argued that “even when black Americans do follow all three norms,…
June 15, 2022
Second Time’s the Charm?
…This week, Romney (together with fellow Republicans Richard Burr and Steve Daines) has offered a revised version of the idea that might just have what it takes to patch up those differences…
August 23, 2021
Policies to Help the Working Class in the Aftermath of COVID-19: Lessons from the Great Recession
By Richard V. Burkhauser, Kevin C. Corinth, and Douglas Holtz-Eakin Abstract The COVID-19 pandemic and the associated government-mandated shutdowns caused a historic shock to the U.S. economy and a disproportionate…
July 2, 2021
Addressing the Shortcomings of the Supplemental Poverty Measure
Key Points The Supplemental Poverty Measure (SPM) partly improves on the Official Poverty Measure but still suffers from several shortcomings that limit its usefulness as an effective poverty measure. The…