My hometown — Port Clinton, Ohio, population 6,050 — was in the 1950s a passable embodiment of the American dream, a place that offered…
This study documents an increase in the prevalence of extreme poverty among US households with children between 1996 and 2011 and assesses…
In his State of the Union Address on February 13, President Barack Obama urged that young people be given the opportunity to obtain the…
This paper investigates the impact of elite capture on the allocation of targeted government
welfare programs in Indonesia, using both a…
The Full Birth History has become the dominant source of estimates of fertility levels and trends for countries lacking complete birth…
Book abstract: Women in the Global Economy: Leading Social Change explores the landscape of women’s participation in the economy and the…
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Recently, two entire volumes of the Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (Vol. 621, 2009; and Vol. 627, 2010)…
The political fallout from Mitt Romney’s characterization of 47% of the American electorate as “victims” who are “dependent on government”…
The annual receipt of large tax refunds, primarily due to the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC), provides households with unusual…
Book abstract: In the months following Hurricane Katrina's devastation of the Gulf Coast in 2005, ATD Fourth World* Volunteer Corps members…