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How much paid parental leave do Americans really want?
Paid leave for parents is likely to be an important issue on the campaign trail this year. Hillary Clinton, positioning herself as the candidate on the side of families, argues for all parents to be...
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As Brexit fallout topples U.K. politicians, some lessons for the U.S.
British politics is starting to resemble a bowling alley. One after another, political figures are tumbling–including the leading lights of the Brexit campaign. They sowed the wind and now are reaping...
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Seven takeaways from Theresa May's ascension to U.K. prime minister
Editor's note: This piece originally appeared in the Wall Street Journal's Washington Wire on July 11, 2016. Theresa May has since succeeded David Cameron as UK prime minister. Theresa May is poised...
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Why rich parents are terrified their kids will fall into the "middle class"
Politicians and scholars often lament the persistence of poverty across generations. But affluence persists, too. In the U.S. especially, the top of the income distribution is just as “sticky”, in...
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How a U.K. Labour party meltdown could play out in wake of Brexit vote
Britain’s Conservative Party just tore itself apart over the EU referendum; David Cameron was forced to resign as prime minister. Yet the party in meltdown is Labour. Polling out this past weekend...
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Social mobility: A promise that could still be kept
As a rhetorical ideal, greater opportunity is hard to beat. Just about all candidates for high elected office declare their commitments to promoting opportunity – who, after all, could be against it?...
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FAFSA completion rates matter: But mind the data
By Richard V. Reeves, Katherine GuyotFAFSA season has just ended — the final deadline to fill out the 2017-18 Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) was June 30. This year, as every year,...
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Do school secessions worsen racial segregation? It’s complicated
By Richard V. Reeves, Nathan Joo What if a school could breakaway from its district to form its own school system? It turns out that in many parts of the country schools can, and these ‘school...
View ArticleRandomistas and the importance of random-assignment studies
Nearly all scientists are now convinced that the most reliable way to create knowledge about human health and behavior is to conduct random-assignment studies—an experimental technique that compares...
View ArticleFewer Americans are making more than their parents did—especially if they...
By Richard V. Reeves, Katherine Guyot One of the most striking social science findings of recent years is that only half of today’s 30-year-olds earn more than their parents. Raj Chetty and his...
View ArticleA little respect: Can we restore relational equality?
By Richard V. Reeves Equality can be thought of in three different ways: Basic equality, granted to all in the form of political or legal rights; material equality, measured principally in terms of...
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By Richard V. Reeves At the end of 2017, the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority launched a new ad campaign. The Authority wasn’t selling anything. It was asking, on behalf of its bus...
View ArticleThe rise of the middle class safety net
By Richard V. Reeves, Christopher PulliamWelfare reform is in the air again. Congressional Republicans are pushing for greater work incentives to be attached to the receipt of certain benefits,...
View ArticleThere are many definitions of “middle class”—here’s ours
By Richard V. Reeves, Katherine GuyotThis summer, the Future of the Middle Class Initiative at Brookings published a paper and interactive on the near-innumerable ways experts have defined the middle...
View ArticlePeople in the middle of the middle are richer than those in the middle, says...
By Richard V. Reeves, Christopher PulliamAs if on cue, just a day after we published our definition of the middle class, Pew issued their latest report on the changing state and shape of the U.S....
View ArticleThe forgotten Americans: An economic agenda for a divided nation
Widening inequality and the loss of jobs to trade and technology has left a significant portion of the American workforce disenfranchised and skeptical of governments and corporations alike. These...
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A closer look at the race gaps highlighted in Obama's Howard University...
The final months of Obama’s historic terms of office as America’s first black president are taking place against the backdrop of an ugly Republican nominating race, and to the sound of ugly language...
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The glass barrier to the upper middle class is hardening
America is becoming a more class-stratified society, contrary to the nation’s self-image as a socially dynamic meritocracy. In particular, the barriers are hardening between the upper middle class and...
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Bipartisanship in action: Evidence and contraception
Ron Haskins and Isabel Sawhill were just awarded the 2016 Daniel Patrick Moynihan Prize by the American Academy of Political and Social Science. The honor is presented to “a leading policymaker,...
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In defense of immigrants: Here's why America needs them now more than ever
At the very heart of the American idea is the notion that, unlike in other places, we can start from nothing and through hard work have everything. That nothing we can imagine is beyond our reach....
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