Commentary
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The U.S. Economy Needs More Two Parent Families, Time, September 28, 2023
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A Driver of Inequality Not Enough People are Talking About, The Atlantic Online September 18, 2023
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The Explosive Rise of Single Parent Families is Not a Good Thing, The New York Times, September 17, 2023
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"How to Fight Poverty and Boost Work with and Enhanced Child Tax Credit", Melissa S.Kearney and Wendy Edelberg, The Hill, March 2023.
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"America's Slowing Population Growth is Here to Stay", Financial Times, December 2022.
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"Six Reasons why an expanded child tax credit or child allowance should be part of the US safety net..” Brookings Institution. October 12, 2021.
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"How lifting children out of poverty today will help them tomorrow.” with Hilary Hoynes and Diane Schanzenbach, The Conversation. April 2021.
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"We Expect 300,000 Fewer Births This Year.” with Phillip B. Levine, New York Times Opinion. March 4, 2021.
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"Romney's Plan to Help Families and Promote Work.” with Diane Schanzenbach, The Hill. February 17, 2021.
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"What a Successful Economic Recovery Plan Must Look Like.” with Jason Furman, Timothy Geithner, and Glenn Hubbard, Washington Post opinion. June 16, 2020.
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"Emerging from the COVID-19 Crisis a Better and More Resilient Society,” The Hill opinion. April 11, 2020.
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"Americans are being left behind. Here’s how we fix it.” with Henry M. Paulson and Erskine Bowles, Washington Post opinion, January 27, 2019.
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"How Should Governments Address Income Inequality? Putting Piketty into Practice," Foreign Affairs, November/December 2017.
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"Disadvantaged kids to miss out on educational TV under Trump budget,” with Phillip Levine, The Hill, March 19, 2017.
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"Should we be concerned about income inequality?” in Ed. Michael Strain, The U.S. Labor Market: Questions and Challenges for U.S. Policy. Washington D.C.: American Enterprise Institute. June 2016.
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"What the Media Got Wrong About Our ‘Sesame Street’ Education Study,” with Phillip Levine, New Republic, June 19, 2015.
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"How a Simple Change to the Tax Code Could Help the Middle Class,” Washington Post, December 24, 2014.
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"Is MTV’s 16 and Pregnant ‘A Great Form of Birth Control’?” with Phillip Levine, Huffingtonpost.com, January 13, 2014.
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"Making the poor – and the U.S. – poorer still,” with Robert Rubin and Roger C. Altman, Washington Post opinion, December 8, 2013.
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"Forget Plan B: To Fight Teen Childbearing, Focus on Economic Opportunity,” with Phillip Levine, The Atlantic, May 8, 2013.
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"Income Inequality, Economic Despair, and Teen Childbearing,” with Phillip Levine, Huffingtonpost.com, June 7, 2012.
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Brookings webinar: "A Comparative Perspective on Policies to Support Single-Parent Families," December 2022
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Aspen Institute McCloskey Speaker Series, "Is the US Headed for Stagflation?," August 2022
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National Academies of Sciences panel on "The Impact of COVID-19 on Birth Rates: Considerations for Planning and Policy Webinar," June 6, 2022.
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SIEPR 2022 summit, "Federal Spending Panel," March 4, 2022
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University of Wisconsin Institute for Research on Poverty (IRP), "Tax Policy for Low Income Americans," August 27, 2021
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American Economic Institute, "Poverty in the Wake of the Pandemic-Induced Recession," July 2020
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Brookings Webinar. June 2020.
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AEI Webinar. June 2020.
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Aspen Ideas Festival 2019, "A Path Forward on Economic Prosperity,” Aspen, CO June 2019.
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Federal Reserve Community Development Research Conference, "Emerging Labor Market and Education Trends Reshaping Pathways to the Middle Class” May 2019
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Hurst lecture series, "Creating Economic Opportunity for More Americans,” Aspen, CO. Aug 2018.
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Aspen Ideas Festival 2016, "Inclusive Capitalism,” Aspen CO June 2016.
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American Economic Institute, "Improving Economic Opportunity in America,” March 2017, discussion of work by Raj Chetty.
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Kearney, Melissa. U.S. Congressional Testimony, Joint Economic Committee, "Income Inequality in the United States,” January 16, 2014.
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WBGH Innovation Hub, "How To End Child Poverty With Social Security?," February 2021.
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Freakonomics, "How Much Do We Really Care About Children," (Ep. 447) Jan 2021.
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Econochats, "Child Poverty in the United States," September 2020.
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Morning Brew, Business Casual, "How a Birth Bust Could Bust the Economy," September 2020.
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Brookings Cafeteria, "How Cultural Factors Affect Children's Economic Outcomes," July 2020.
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WBGH Innovation Hub, "Baby Boom or Baby Bust?," June 2020.
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Freakonomics, "Does 'Early Education' Come Way Too Late?," Feb 2018.
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Freakonomics, "The Fracking Boom, a Baby Boom, and the Retreat From Marriage," July 2017.
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Freakonomics, "Is America Ready for a No Lose Lottery?," November 2017.
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Brookings Cafeteria, "Why the Poorest Kids Quit High School," March 2016.
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