Fact of the Week: Why People Fail to Vote
Source: November 2014 Current Population Survey
Fact of the Week: U.S. Housing Cost Burdens for the Poor Compared to Other Advanced Nations
Source: Carliner, M., Marya, E. (2016). Rental housing: An international comparison. Cambridge, MA: Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard University.
Fact of the Week: Extremely Low Income Households Occupy Higher-Priced Rentals
Note: AMI = Area Median Income Source: NLIHC tabulations of 2014 ACS PUMS data.
Well-Being of Economically Disadvantaged Americans Similar to Poorer Countries
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…
Fact of the Week: Projected Mortgage Interest Deduction (MID) Tax Expenditure vs. HUD Budget (2015-2021)
Note: Not in constant dollars. Sources: MID projections from Table 14-2B in OMB's Analytical Perspectives (2015). HUD budget authority and budget outlay data from OMB FY17 historical tables 5.2 and…
Household Wealth Varies Significantly By Race
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…
Fact of the Week: Median Net Worth of Households by Race/Ethnicity (1983-2013)
Source: Wolff, E. (2014). Household wealth trends in the United States, 1962-2013: What happened over the Great Recession? Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research. Retrieved from http…
Low-Wage Workers Face Affordable Housing Challenges
An analysis by the Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University, titled Many Full-Time Workers Face Housing Affordability Problems, finds the median full-time wage in low paying occupations…