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Food Stamp Cuts Would Hit Growing Suburban Poor
If House Republicans had gotten their way earlier this summer, the food stamp program, which currently serves more than 47 million Americans, would have been cut by $20.5 billion. Under those cuts, as...
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Suburban Poverty Traverses the Red/Blue Divide
During the 2000s, major metropolitan suburbs became home to the largest and fastest-growing poor population in America. As a result, the federal policies that were created to help people in low-income...
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America's Shifting Suburban Battlegrounds
This opinion was originally published on August 14, 2013 at Politico.America is defined by its suburbs. Since the mid-20th century — when highways, the GI Bill and the Federal Housing Administration...
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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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Next Week’s Poverty Numbers: What Metro Areas Can Expect
As the national economy continues its tepid recovery in the aftermath of the Great Recession, spending fights in Washington and state capitals have increasingly zeroed in on programs that offer...
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New Census Data Underscore Metro Poverty's Persistence in 2012
The release of the 2012 American Community Survey (ACS) census data on poverty and income underscores the effects of a sluggish recovery that has played out unevenly across the nation’s major...
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How Mayors Can Grapple with Inequality
This week, in a speech many are calling the blueprint for the remainder of his term, President Obama advocated raising the minimum wage, establishing universal pre-school and reforming immigration...
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Does the Suburbanization of Poverty Mean the War on Poverty Failed?
On the 50th anniversary of President Johnson’s State of the Union speech announcing a “War on Poverty,” pundits and analysts are in full swing, judging the war to have been a qualified success, an...
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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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