The annual receipt of large tax refunds, primarily due to the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC), provides households with unusual…
President Barack Obama last month signed an executive order promising to "improve outcomes and advance educational opportunities for…
Book abstract: In the months following Hurricane Katrina's devastation of the Gulf Coast in 2005, ATD Fourth World* Volunteer Corps members…
Recent proposals to address housing market troubles through principal modification raise
the possibility that such policies could increase…
Labor economists know that a year of schooling raises earnings but have little evidence on the impact of specific courses completed. I…
The increase in the college premium—the differential in what is earned by college graduates compared with what is earned by those with…
This working paper, the first in the WIEGO Working Paper series, provides an overview of the definitional, theoretical, and policy debates…
Even if the process of economic recovery proves protracted, the American economy will eventually recover, and cyclical issues will cease to…
On 3 September 2008, the Republican vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin made “community organizing” part of mainstream political…