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Mexico Wins: Anti-Corruption Reform Approved

July 12, 2016

The Wilson Center | By Viridiana Rios (Ph.D. '13), Global Fellow, Mexico Institute, The Wilson Center.



Anti-immigrant ads like Trump’s sank the California GOP in the 90s

August 19, 2016

The Brookings Institution | By Vanessa Williamson (Ph.D. '15), Fellow in Governance Studies at Brookings.



Could Donald Trump Drop Out? Some Bettors Seem to Think So

August 4, 2016

The New York Times | By Justin Wolfers (Ph.D. '01), Professor of Economics and Public Policy, University of Michigan.



There Are Conservative Professors. Just Not in These States.

July 1, 2016

The New York Times | By Samuel J. Abrams (Ph.D. '10), Professor of Politics, Sarah Lawrence College.



Did Welfare Reform Work?

August 22, 2016

Politico | Interview with Scott Winship (Ph.D.'09), Walter B. Wriston Fellow at the Manhattan Institute, who says yes. Twenty years after passage of Bill Clinton's controversial anti-poverty law, his major new report challenges its critics—and says it even offers a way forward.



Happy Birthday, Welfare Reform

August 25, 2016

New York Daily News | By Scott Winship (Ph.D. '09), Walter B. Wriston Fellow, Manhattan Institute. "Welfare reform was the most successful anti-poverty legislation since the national expansion of food stamps in 1974. History will regard it as a model, not a mistake," Winship argues.



Summer jobs programs: What do we know?

August 23, 2016

Brookings Institution | By Alicia Sasser Modestino (Ph.D. '01), Associate Professor, School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs and Department of Economics, Northeastern University, and Associate Director of Northeastern's Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional Policy. Modestino has recently  joined Brookings as a non-resident fellow in the Metropolitan Policy Program.



Twenty Years After Welfare Reform, Child Poverty is at an All-Time Low

September 1, 2016

Forbes | By Scott Winship (Ph.D. '09) of the Manhattan Institute responds to Slate Moneybox columnist Jordan Weissmann on the impact of the 1996 Clinton welfare reform.



Why the 1996 Welfare Reform Benefited Poor Children

September 1, 2016

National Review Online | By Scott Winship (Ph.D. '09), Walter B. Wriston Fellow, Manhattan Institute.



Ten-year Trends in Public Opinion From the EdNext Poll

August 16, 2016

Education Next | By Paul E. Peterson, Michael B. Henderson (Ph.D '11), Martin R. West (Ph.D. '06), and Samuel Barrows (Ph.D. '14). Common Core and vouchers are down, but many other reforms still popular, the authors find.

Paul E. Peterson is professor and director of the Program on Education Policy and Governance at the Harvard Kennedy School. Michael B. Henderson is an assistant professor at Louisiana State University’s Manship School of Mass Communication and director of its Public Policy Research Lab. Martin R. West, editor-in chief of Education Next, is associate professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and deputy director of the Program on Education Policy and Governance at the Harvard Kennedy School, where Samuel Barrows is a postdoctoral fellow.

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