News in Brief How Geography Affects Low-Income Americans Especially when it comes to the social safety net, which varies wildly from state to state. By Dwyer… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief How Best to Measure the Effectiveness of the Social Safety Net? A new op-ed reiterates Republicans’ calls for a new approach to poverty, but also focuses on a new… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief How White Space Wi-Fi Could Bring Internet to the Rural Poor The method could help large swaths of Africa with low population density, but government regulators have been sluggish… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief Twenty Years Ago, We Reformed Welfare Here’s what we did wrong, and what we can do to fix it. By Dwyer Gunn President Bill… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief Here’s How to Get the IRS Ready for a Tax War on Poverty A new paper offers suggestions for helping the IRS better administer social benefit programs. By Dwyer Gunn Cars… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief The Obama Administration’s New Plan to Power Low-Income Homes With Solar Installations Veterans and low- to moderate-income households are now newly eligible to retrofit their homes and to finance solar… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief What Poverty Does to Children’s Development Around the World One-third of kids in low- and medium-income countries aren’t meeting basic milestones. By Nathan Collins (Photo: Andrea Moroni/Flickr)… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief Paul Ryan Is Wrong to Call the War on Poverty a Failure There’s a reason welfare programs haven’t completely eliminated poverty. By Michael Fitzgerald Paul Ryan. (Photo: Allison Shelley/Getty Images)… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief Here’s Paul Ryan’s New Plan to Fight Poverty The GOP just released its new anti-poverty agenda. Is it any good? By Dwyer Gunn Paul Ryan. (Photo:… Pacific Standard Staff
News in Brief How Long-Acting Birth Control Can Help End Poverty IUDs and other methods of long-acting reversible contraception offer to help millions of women escape poverty—so why aren’t… Pacific Standard Staff