How Geography Affects Low-Income Americans
Especially when it comes to the social safety net, which varies wildly from state to state. By Dwyer…
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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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)…
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)…
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:…
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…