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In the five years following the passage of federal welfare reform law, the labor force participation of low-income, single mothers with young children climbed by more than 25 …
Americans' relationship to the federal government is paradoxical. Polls show that public opinion regarding the government has plummeted to all-time lows, with only one in five …
High rates of divorce, single-parenthood, and nonmarital cohabitation are forcing Americans to reexamine their definition of family. This evolving social reality requires public …
During the 1990s, growing demands to end chronic welfare dependency culminated in the 1996 federal "e;welfare-to-work"e; reforms. But regardless of welfare reform, the …
The rapid rise in the proportion of foreign-born residents in the United States since the mid-1960s is one of the most important demographic events of the past fifty years. The …
Policy analysis has grown increasingly reliant on the random assignment experiment-a research method whereby participants are sorted by chance into either a program group that is …
The rancorous debate over the future of Social Security reached a fever pitch in 2005 when President Bush unsuccessfully proposed a plan for private retirement accounts. Although …
Despite high levels of inequality and wage stagnation over several decades, the United States has done relatively little to address these problems--at least in part due to public …