21. More Work, Less Income in 2011
(Matching tags: poverty, jobs, inequality, Census, income)

Today's Census release on Health, Income, Poverty, and Inequality in 2011—what I like to call the annual HIPI report—was not particularly surprising. The best news was that the number of people without ...

22. The NYT and the 'Disorganized Single-Mother' Meme
(Matching tags: poverty, media, children, inequality, working class, marriage)

I remember being struck several years ago by David Brooks' odd use of the adjective "disorganized" to describe single-parent families. As he put it in the New York Times in 2007: "A human capital agenda ...

23. Contra Santorum: Most Adults in Poverty Marry and Have High School Diplomas
(Matching tags: poverty, working class, education, marriage, Santorum)

In his RNC speech last night, Rick Santorum claimed that the U.S. poverty rate would be close to zero if all of us here in the land of the free just did three simple things: (1) worked full-time, year-round ...

24. NewtAid at 16: The Failure of TANF and Conservative Social Policy
(Matching tags: poverty, children, working class, social insurance)

...  It is now clear TANF is a failed program that needs to be overhauled. NewtAid's failure can be seen most simply by comparing the number of children living below federal poverty line in 1992 and 2010. ...

25. Family Structure is Overrated as an Explanation of Inequality, Part 5
(Matching tags: poverty, inequality, mobility, marriage)

According to NYT reporter Jason DeParle: “there are suggestions that the absence of a father in the house makes it harder for children to climb the economic ladder.” To support this proposition, he cites ...

26. Income-Related Inequalities in Health Care
(Matching tags: health care, poverty, inequality)

... provision extending Medicaid eligibility to all Americans with incomes below 133 percent of the poverty line.  ...

27. Family Structure is Overrated as an Explanation of Family Income Inequality, Part 4 on DeParle's Marriage Plot
(Matching tags: poverty, jobs, inequality, working class, low-wage workers, income, families)

The basic assumption undergirding Jason DeParle's piece is that changes in family structure have been one of the primary drivers of growth in family income inequality over the last several decades. What ...

28. Family Structure is Overrated as an Explanation of Inequality, Part 3 on DeParle's Marriage Plot
(Matching tags: poverty, jobs, inequality, working class, low-wage workers, income, families)

Sociologist Loïc Wacquant writes that "binary oppositions are well-suited to exaggerating differences, confounding description and prescription, and setting up overburdened dualisms that erase continuities, ...

29. Family Structure is Overrated as an Explanation of Inequality, Part 2 on DeParle
(Matching tags: poverty, jobs, inequality, working class, low-wage workers, income, families)

In Sunday's New York Times, Jason DeParle contrasts the economic security of Jessica Shairer, a single mother of three who works at a child care center in Ann Arbor and makes under $25,000 (despite having ...

30. Family Structure is Overrated as an Explanation of Inequality
(Matching tags: poverty, inequality, families)

In a front-page piece in Sunday's New York Times, reporter Jason DeParle touts family structure as a neglected factor in the increase in income inequality. I don't have a lot of faith in some of the researchers ...

31. People Living Below the Income Poverty Line Today are Better Educated than Ever
(Matching tags: poverty, inequality, education, wages)

... in looking at whether working-age adults with incomes below the federal poverty line are also much better educated than in the past. Not surprisingly, the answer is "yes, much better educated." As the ...

32. Labor Market Policy Research Reports June 22 – 29, 2012
(Matching tags: poverty, economy, labor market, unemployment, taxes)

...  Studies Show Earned Income Tax Credit Encourages Work and Success in School and Reduces Poverty Jimmy Charite, Indivar Dutta-Gupta, and Chuck Marr Introduction to Unemployment Insurance Hannah Shaw ...

33. Labor Market Policy Research Reports, April 23 - 27, 2012
(Matching tags: poverty, labor market, inequality, elderly, education, taxes, budget, medicaid, productivity)

Here is this week's roundup of labor-market policy research reports: Center for Law and Social Policy Refocusing Adult Education on Career and Postsecondary Success: An Analysis of Adult Education ...

34. Krugman, CATO, and Inequality in Latin America
(Matching tags: poverty, inequality, latin america)

Paul Krugman has kicked off a debate in the blogosphere about the historic decline in inequality in Latin America over the last decade and the role of left-of-center governments.  This is a topic ...

35. Labor Market Policy Research Reports, March 12-16, 2012
(Matching tags: poverty, labor market, inequality, minimum wage)

Below are reports on issues relating to labor-market policy released over the past week: Center on Budget and Policy Priorities TANF Weakening as a Safety Net for Poor Families Danilo Trisi and LaDonna ...

36. Should Presidential Candidates Be Afraid to Talk about Declining Mobility and Growing Inequality?
(Matching tags: poverty, inequality, election 2012)

In two previous posts, John Schmitt and I discussed social science evidence supporting the argument, made most recently in the Economic Report of the President, that rising inequality in the United States ...

37. More on the Recent Past and Near Future of Economic Mobility
(Matching tags: poverty, inequality)

In a post yesterday, we noted that the growing disparity in college completion provides support for the view that increasing inequality has reduced economic mobility. Bhashkar Mazumder, a senior economist ...

38. Unequal Access to Education and the Gatsby Curve
(Matching tags: poverty, inequality)

The central issue in the furor that erupted a few weeks back over the "Gatsby Curve" was whether or not the sharp increase in inequality over the last three decades has depressed economic mobility. President ...

39. Charles Murray, Trade Unionist
(Matching tags: poverty, inequality, unions, copyrights, education, labor)

... that income poverty was roughly cut in half between 1949 and 1963, going from 41 percent to just under 20 percent, and that this was a phenomenal achievement. Because the official poverty series published ...

40. Labor Market Policy Research Reports, January 30 - February 3, 2012
(Matching tags: poverty, jobs, retirement, Social Security, minimum wage, China, austerity, safety net)

... for Retirement? Joelle Saad-Lessler, Teresa Ghilarducci, and Lauren Schmitz New York’s Retirees: Falling into Poverty A Research Report on the Downward Mobility of New York’s Next Generation of Retirees ...