Poverty

Future Development

The forgotten 3 billion

Wolfgang Fengler, Homi Kharas, and Juan Caballero

Friday, October 21, 2022

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Up Front

Class Notes: Housing assistance benefits, gender roles in Australia and more

Richard V. Reeves and Simran Kalkat

Wednesday, October 19, 2022

Up Front

Class Notes: Boys and men, home evictions, and more

Richard V. Reeves and Simran Kalkat

Thursday, September 15, 2022

Up Front

Food security shouldn’t take a summer vacation

Lauren Bauer, Krista Ruffini, Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach, and Natalie Tomeh

August 26, 2022

Reports

Report

Targeting, universalism, and other factors affecting social programs’ political strength

Robert Greenstein

Tuesday, June 28, 2022

Report

The state of the Sustainable Development Goals in the United States

Anthony F. Pipa, Krista Rasmussen, and Kait Pendrak

Wednesday, March 16, 2022

Report

Inequitable fines and fees hurt vulnerable communities. Now, policymakers have an opportunity for reform.

Tonantzin Carmona

Friday, December 17, 2021

Essay

Homeownership, racial segregation, and policy solutions to racial wealth equity

Rashawn Ray, Andre M. Perry, David Harshbarger, Samantha Elizondo, and Alexandra Gibbons

Wednesday, September 1, 2021

Income Inequality & Social Mobility

Poverty hurts the boys the most: Inequality at the intersection of class and gender

Richard V. Reeves and Sarah Nzau

Monday, June 14, 2021

Blog Posts

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Mapping gun violence: A closer look at the intersection between place and gun homicides in four cities

DW Rowlands and Hanna Love

Thursday, April 21, 2022

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How We Rise

Narrowing the racial wealth gap using the EITC and CTC

Nora Cahill and William G. Gale

Wednesday, February 2, 2022

The Avenue

To address homelessness, place governance must evolve

Tracy Hadden Loh and Jennifer S. Vey

Wednesday, December 1, 2021

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Events

2022

Mar

Past Event

BPEA Spring 2022 conference

1:00 PM - Friday Mar 25, 2022 2:00 PM EDT

2021

Sep

Past Event

Resilience after recession: The emerging landscape for American workers and families

2:00 PM - 3:45 PM EDT

2021

Jun

Past Event

Time to change how we measure poverty? Evaluating alternate poverty measures

2:00 PM - 3:30 PM EDT

Online only

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Related Books

There Is Nothing for You Here: Finding Opportunity in the Twenty-First Century

By Fiona Hill

2021

Inequality

By Michele Alacevich and Anna Soci

2017

The Last Mile in Ending Extreme Poverty

Edited by Laurence Chandy, Hiroshi Kato, and Homi Kharas

2015

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Experts

Michal Grinstein-Weiss

Nonresident Senior Fellow - Global Economy and Development

@MichalGW

Anthony F. Pipa

Senior Fellow - Global Economy and Development, Center for Sustainable Development

anthonypipa

Camille Busette

Senior Fellow - Brookings Metro, Economic Studies, Governance Studies

Director - Race, Prosperity, and Inclusion Initiative

@CamilleBusette

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Multimedia

A vacant, boarded up house is seen in the once thriving Brush Park neighborhood with the downtown Detroit skyline behind it in Detroit, Michigan March 3, 2013. Michigan Governor Rick Snyder cleared the way for a state takeover of Detroit, declaring that the birthplace of the U.S. automotive industry faces a fiscal emergency and that he has identified a top candidate to assume its management. Friday's declaration by the Republican governor virtually assures that the state of Michigan will assume control of Detroit's books, and eventually decide whether the city should file the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history. REUTERS/ Rebecca Cook (UNITED STATES - Tags: CITYSCAPE REAL ESTATE BUSINESS POLITICS)

Poverty

The Supplemental Expenditure Poverty Measure

John Fitzgerald and Robert A. Moffitt

Wednesday, March 23, 2022

The Tanners Creek Generating Station, a former 1000 MW, coal-fired electrical plant, is being taken down along the Ohio River in Lawrenceburg, Indiana, U.S., September 14, 2017. The plant was shut down in 2015. REUTERS/Brian Snyder SEARCH "SNYDER BARGES" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES.

Podcast Episode

Industrial decline and the rise of populists in Russia, the U.S., and Britain

Fiona Hill and David Dollar

Monday, October 11, 2021

U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer peers out from behind a mock U.S. Treasury check as he holds a press conference on the expanded Child Tax Credit payments at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, U.S., July 15, 2021. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque

Podcast Episode

How could expanded tax credits reduce child poverty?

Robert Greenstein and Adrianna Pita

Friday, July 16, 2021

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