41. The Great Gatsby Curve
(Matching tags: poverty, economy)

... December in Osawatomie, Kansas, where the president argued that a child born into poverty today has a lower chance of reaching the middle class –about 33 percent– than a child born into poverty just after ...

42. Stuff Casey Mulligan Doesn't Like: Social Insurance
(Matching tags: poverty, jobs, inequality, unemployment, social insurance)

In a recent report, Arloc Sherman of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities concluded that the current income poverty rate would be much higher if not for social insurance, including temporary expansions ...

43. NYT Misleads on Poverty Trends
(Matching tags: new york times, poverty, inequality)

In a post yesterday, I wrote that the new poverty measure proposed by the Obama Administration—known as the Supplemental Poverty Measure (SPM)—likely increases the poverty rate by a modest amount compared ...

44. New Obama Poverty Measure Lowers Poverty Rates in Most States and Among Children
(Matching tags: media coverage, poverty, inequality)

On Friday, November 4, the Census Bureau is holding a webinar on the Obama Administration's proposed "supplemental" poverty measure. The webinar is in advance of the release of new research on the measure ...

45. One Poverty Roll Please, Hold the Mayo!
(Matching tags: poverty, media, working class, etymology)

Today's New York Times has a story on the disproportionate increase in income poverty among people living in the suburbs. Over the last 10 years, the number of people with incomes below the austere U.S. ...

46. Research for the 99%
(Matching tags: poverty, Wall Street, inequality, OccupyWallSt)

... need to focus on preventing this, rather than acting after the fact on ways to re-redistribute income. Going hand in hand with inequality is poverty, and CEPR Senior Research Associate Shawn Fremstad ...

47. Stan Greenberg Appears to be Confused About the Effects of Conservative Block Grant Schemes
(Matching tags: new york times, poverty, federal aid, welfare reform)

After writing about Elaine Kamarck's wrongheaded defense of the conservative 1996 Personal Responsibility Act, I remembered pollster Stan Greenberg's similarly odd claim, made in a widely read New York ...

48. Rich Lowry and the Heritage Foundation Need to Get their Stories Straight
(Matching tags: poverty)

Via Harold Pollack, here's the National Review's Rich Lowry on the economic struggles of workers who make "only" $250,000 a year: [Warren Buffett] should give all his wealth away .... come move to ...

49. Nobody Gets Rich On Their Own: Richard Posner Edition
(Matching tags: poverty)

In a recent column, Paul Krugman cites Elizabeth Warren to make the important point that today's libertarian conservatives: ... miss[] the point that all of us live in and benefit from being part of ...

50. Why is Elaine Kamarck So Hung Up on Defending Conservative Social Policy?
(Matching tags: poverty, government programs)

In a recent Washington Monthly blog post, Elaine Kamarck argues that the conservative 1996 law that eliminated AFDC and replaced it with a block grant (known as TANF) is a success. Kamarck is quite ...