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When social policy goes wrong
When social policy experts create a new intervention to solve some social problem or make people’s lives better, there’s two possible outcomes they’re expecting: either the intervention works, or it doesn’t. But what we forget is that there’s a third … Continue reading
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Tagged experiments, happiness, insurance, material hardship, welfare payments
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Getting on the Bus with Material Hardship
This is the third post in a series of three on the measurement of poverty in the U.S. Hunger takes this bus, too. 1 in 6 Americans struggle with hunger. This attention-grabbing sign began appearing on buses around Boston and … Continue reading
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Tagged material hardship, politics of inequality, poverty, relative deprivation
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Poverty in the Age of the Xbox
This is the first in a series of three posts that looks at the measurement and politics of poverty in the United States As I reported last week, the poverty rate in the United States in 2010 soared. Under the … Continue reading
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Tagged food, material hardship, measurement, politics of inequality, poverty, standard of living
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What Does it Mean to be Poor?
Dismal news. As was widely reported this week, the official poverty rate climbed again in 2010 to 15.1 percent – the highest level since 1994. The already inflated 2009 rate was 14.3 percent of individuals. The report also revealed that … Continue reading
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Tagged economic downturn, food, material hardship, measurement, poverty, welfare payments
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