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A new paper by Luke Shaefer, Pinghui Wu, and Kathryn Edin titled Can Poverty in America Be Compared to Conditions in the World’s Poorest Countries? challenges the claim that economically disadvantaged Americans, though poor, enjoy greater well-being than many people around the world. The authors…
The Corporation for Enterprise Development (CFED) and the Institute for Policy Studies released a report titled The Ever Growing Gap that documents racial inequities in wealth accumulation and provides federal policy prescriptions to address the racial wealth gap. Housing policies are identified as…
The Economic Policy Institute (EPI) released a new report titled Income Inequality in the U.S. by State, Metropolitan Area, and County. The report documents income inequality across the U.S. dating back to 1917. The authors conclude that income inequality is a long term, widespread trend that has…
A report by Civic Enterprises and Hart Research Associates, Hidden in Plain Sight: Homeless Students in America’s Public Schools, analyzes the increase in housing instability among children in public schools. The McKinney Vento Homeless Assistance Act was passed thirty years ago to provide…