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Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) Interactive
Important changes were made to EITC Interactive data in recent years. For Tax Years 2009 and on, data is part-year and uses 2010 Census boundaries. Additionally, some variables have changed their...
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Suburbs on $7.25 an Hour
Fifty years after President Johnson called for an expanded minimum wage in his State of the Union speech that launched the War on Poverty, the nation is once again debating the merits of a minimum wage...
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The GOP and the Next War on Poverty
On the 50th anniversary of President Johnson’s War on Poverty, leading Republicans have been taking to the speaking circuit calling for new solutions. "I would give us a failing grade," Rep. Paul Ryan...
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Food Stamps Respond to the Changing Geography of American Poverty
Today, the House of Representatives passed a new $1 trillion five-year Farm Bill, by 251 votes to 166. The bill, which is now on its way to the Senate where it is expected to pass, cuts $8.6 billion...
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All Cities Are Not Created Unequal
In December 2013, President Obama gave a speech on economic mobility, in which he called income inequality and lack of upward mobility “the defining challenge of our time.”That challenge is front and...
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EITC Expansion Would Strengthen Credit for Childless Workers
For low-income working families, the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) is one of the nation’s most effective tools for reducing inequality and alleviating poverty. However, as President Obama pointed out...
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Updating Anti-Poverty Policy for the Suburban Age
This year, 2014, is rife with 50-year retrospectives of the War on Poverty. More than just a round-number anniversary, the topic is attracting a lot of attention thanks to growing rates of poverty and...
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Seattle, Its Suburbs, and $15/Hour
Seattle Mayor Ed Murray recently announced a plan to raise the minimum wage in his city to $15/hour over the next few years. The plan emerged from a special business/labor advisory committee, approved...
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Suburban Poverty: A Year of Lessons
Today marks one year since the release of our book Confronting Suburban Poverty in America. Over the course of the last year, we’ve traveled to dozens of communities across the country to talk about...
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Place and the Paul Ryan Poverty Plan
The new poverty plan unveiled last week by Rep. Paul Ryan has definitely sparked a conversation, generating a flurry of responses from positive to critical to somewhere in between (call it skeptical)....
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The Growth and Spread of Concentrated Poverty, 2000 to 2008-2012
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New Census Data Show Few Metro Areas Made Progress Against Poverty in 2013
Newly released Census Bureau data confirm that, four years into an official economic recovery, the nation’s largest metro areas continued to struggle with stubbornly high poverty levels even amid...
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A Look at New Employment Data for Metropolitan Labor Markets
The Great Recession created some of the toughest employment conditions that American workers experienced in the postwar period. The economy overall shed 8.7 million jobs in 2008 and 2009, and the...
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Five Lessons from Leading Innovators on Confronting Suburban Poverty
In September we reported that suburbs in our nation’s largest metro areas had seen their poor population grow by 66 percent since 2000, making them home to the largest and fastest growing poor...
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Some cities are still more unequal than others—an update
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The growing distance between people and jobs in metropolitan America
Proximity to employment can influence a range of economic and social outcomes, from local fiscal health to the employment prospects of residents, particularly low-income and minority workers. An...
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Where the rich get richer, the poor often don't
Our latest report on income inequality in cities finds that the gap between the rich and poor across the 50 largest cities continued to grow, albeit slightly, from 2012 to 2013. In general, both high-...
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Concentrated poverty in New Orleans 10 years after Katrina
The death and massive displacement that Hurricane Katrina and subsequent levee failures caused in New Orleans 10 years ago caused many Americans at the time to ask: How could this happen? How could so...
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Setting the right economic development goals is hard work
Amy Liu’s recent paper, “Remaking Economic Development,” is disruptive in that it rightfully undercuts the shaky foundation of what draws many practitioners to the field: the idea that success is...
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