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SELECT PUBLIC EVENTS AND INTERVIEWS
American Enterprise Institute Event on Improving the Supplemental Poverty Measure
September 14, 2021: Kevin Corinth and Bruce Meyer present and discuss a report they coauthored with other scholars on shortcomings of the Supplemental Poverty Measure and how to improve it, drawing heavily on work by the CID Project.
Brookings Institution/American Enterprise Institute Event on Measuring Poverty
June 9, 2021: Drawing heavily on work by the CID Project, Bruce Meyer presents the final report of the Interagency Technical Working Group on Evaluating Alternative Measures of Poverty (on which he served as a co-chair), and a number of poverty experts provide commentary.
May 31, 2021: Bruce Meyer discusses extreme poverty, homelessness, economic mobility and the importance of the CID with Russ Roberts.
Institute for Research on Poverty Webinar on Measuring Poverty
April 21, 2021: Drawing heavily on work by the CID Project, Bruce Meyer presents the final report of the Interagency Technical Working Group on Evaluating Alternative Measures of Poverty (on which he served as a co-chair), and University of Michigan professor David Johnson provides commentary.
Brookings Papers on Economic Activity Conference
June 25, 2020: Affiliated CID researcher and Notre Dame professor James Sullivan presents joint work with Jeehoon Han and Bruce Meyer on income and poverty during the COVID-19 pandemic.
American Enterprise Institute Event on Extreme Poverty
July 10, 2018: Bruce Meyer presents the CID and how it transforms our understanding of extreme poverty in the United States, and several poverty experts provide commentary.
SELECT MEDIA COVERAGE
Child Tax Credit:
Wall Street Journal: The Child Tax Credit is a Failed Experiment | PDF
Wall Street Journal: The Parable of the Child Tax Credit | PDF
Wall Street Journal: Monthly Child-Tax-Credit Payments Cease, Ending Cushion for Family Budgets | PDF
New York Times: Child Tax Credit’s Extra Help Ends, Just as Covid Surges Anew | PDF
Wall Street Journal: Joe Manchin and child poverty | PDF
Wall Street Journal: Biden’s child-poverty progress isn’t real | PDF
Washington Post: The battle over Biden’s child tax credit and its impact on poverty and workers | PDF
Wall Street Journal: The Bad Science Behind the Child Tax Credit Expansion | PDF
Associated Press: Child tax credit tussle reflects debate over work incentives
CNN: Joe Manchin wants to add a work requirement to the child tax credit. Here’s what that would do
Washington Post: Why extending the current child tax credit would do more harm than good | PDF
New York Times: Joe Manchin’s Choices on Family Policy | PDF
CBS News: Child Tax Credit sparks debate: Should it have a work requirement?
Wall Street Journal: The child allowance welfare trap | PDF
Other coverage:
Wall Street Journal: Fentanyl fuels surge in deaths among those who are homeless | PDF
Forbes: No Address – a scripted feature film – showcases the human dimension of homelessness
Vox: The big drop in American poverty during the pandemic, explained
UChicago News: Employment alone isn’t enough to solve homelessness, study suggests
New York Times: Vast federal aid has capped rise in poverty, studies find | PDF
Washington Post: Nearly 8 million Americans have fallen into poverty since the summer | PDF
Bloomberg: Decades of gains over U.S. poverty at risk of being wiped out
NPR Planet Money: Amid pandemic, here’s what researchers have learned about the economy
BBC: Coronavirus: US poverty rises as aid winds down
The Economist: Measuring poverty in the midst of America’s Covid-19 epidemic
Wall Street Journal: Mismeasuring poverty | PDF
Slate: Inside the fight to define extreme poverty in America
Vox: How many Americans live on $2 a day? The biggest debate in poverty research, explained