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    20 Years Since Welfare 'Reform': How Has America Fared?

    20 Years Since Welfare 'Reform': How Has America Fared?

    August 22, 2016

    The Atlantic | By Kathryn Edin and H. Luke Shaefer. "TANF offered states a lot of flexibility to innovate, to allow a flowering of new ideas to help the poor. But that’s not what the country got," write Edin and Shaefer. "Instead it got a new kind of welfare queens: states. States, not people, are using TANF to close the holes in their budgets. It is states, not people, who are falling prey to the “perverse disincentives” of welfare."

    Edin, Bloomberg Distinguished Professor at Johns Hopkins University, and Shaefer, Associate Professor at the University of Michigan, spoke about their book, $2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America, in a Malcolm Wiener Center event at the Harvard Kennedy School in November 2015.
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    Roberto Gonzales

    15 Professors the Year: Roberto G. Gonzales

    September 14, 2017
    Fifteen Minutes Magazine - The Harvard Crimson | Roberto Gonzales has done extensive research on undocumented immigrant youth and young adult populations in America. An interview.
    Danielle Allen

    15 Professors of the Year: Danielle S. Allen

    September 14, 2017
    Fifteen Minutes Magazine - The Harvard Crimson |Danielle Allen, one of the 15 Professors of 2017, has been trying to shift the conversation from inequality to equality. An interview.
    101 economists defend the'Cadillac tax'

    101 economists defend the'Cadillac tax'

    October 1, 2015

    Letter to Congress | A group of prominent health economists and policy analysts issued a statement urging that Congress take no action to weaken the Cadillac tax "unless and until it enacts an alternative tax change that would more effectively curtail cost growth." Signatories include Amitabh Chandra, David Cutler, David Ellwood, Douglas Elmendorf, Lawrence Katz, Tom Vogl (Ph.D. '11), and Justin Wolfers (Ph.D. '01).

    Ryan D. Enos

    'The Space Between Us'

    January 9, 2018
    Harvard Gazette | Ryan Enos, Associate Professor of Government, talks about his new book The Space Between Us (Cambridge University Press), in which he explores how geography shapes politics and how members of racial, ethnic, and religious groups think about each other.

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