Hope in heterogeneity: Big data, opportunity and policy
By Richard V. Reeves “Big data” is particularly useful for demonstrating variation across large groups. Using administrative tax data, for example, Stanford economist Raj Chetty and his colleagues have...
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Let workers decide who counts as ‘family’ for paid sick and family leave
By Richard V. Reeves This is the third blog post for the 2018 series on paid family leave jointly sponsored by AEI and Brookings. Aparna Mathur at AEI and Isabel Sawhill at the Brookings Institution...
View ArticleNew college endowment tax won’t help low-income students, here’s how it could
By Aaron Klein, Richard V. Reeves There is not very much to like about the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017. It delivers big benefits to the affluent, creates new loopholes and complexities, and will send...
View ArticleWhy are young, educated men working less?
By Richard V. Reeves, Eleanor Krause The proportion of U.S. adults in paid work has declined in recent decades. While the fall in male employment gets the most attention, female work rates are...
View ArticleThe middle class is becoming race-plural, just like the rest of America
By Richard V. Reeves, Camille Busette For more than half a century, the term “the American middle-class,” has served as a political reference to white American upward mobility. This was less an...
View ArticleThe changing identity of America’s middle class
By Camille Busette, Richard V. Reeves, Adrianna PitaIn this episode, Camille Busette, senior fellow and director of the Race, Prosperity and Inclusion Initiative at Brookings, and Richard Reeves,...
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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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"Should we live together first?" Yes, say Democrats. No, say Republicans...
There is a marriage gap in America. This is not just a gap in choices and actions, but in norms and attitudes. Each generation is more liberal, on average, when it comes to issues like premarital...
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After second verdict in Freddie Gray case, Baltimore's economic challenges...
Baltimore police officer Edward Nero, one of six being tried separately in relation to the arrest and death of Freddie Gray, has been acquitted on all counts. The outcome for officer Nero was widely...
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Here's what America would be like without immigrants
“There is room for everybody in America,” wrote French-American author Hector St. John de Crèvecœur in 1782’s Letters from an American Farmer. Like most of the founding generation, Crèvecœur believed...
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Colorado's poor now get to visit the dentist
“A society of equals is a society in which disadvantages do not cluster,” say Jonathan Wolff and Avner de-Shalit in their book Disadvantage. Low income matters greatly in itself, of course. But it...
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Fewer field trips mean some students miss more than a day at the museum
As every good teacher knows, education is not just about academics. It is about broadening horizons and discovering passions. (The root of education is the Latin e ducere, meaning “to draw out.”) From...
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Modeling equal opportunity
The Horatio Alger ideal of upward mobility has a strong grip on the American imagination (Reeves 2014). But recent years have seen growing concern about the distance between the rhetoric of...
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Give fathers more than one day: The case for paternity leave
Feminism needs fathers. Unless and until men and women share the responsibilities of parenting equally, gender parity in the labor market will remain out of reach. As Isabel Sawhill and I argued in...
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Transfer season: Lowering the barrier between community college and four-year...
Community colleges are a vital part of America’s opportunity structure, not least because they often provide a way into higher education for adults from less advantaged backgrounds. Each year there...
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Brexit: British identity politics, immigration and David Cameron’s undoing
Like many Brits, I’m reeling. Everyone knew that the "Brexit" referendum was going to be close. But deep down I think many of us assumed that the vote would be to remain in the European Union. David...
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Memo to the boss: Follow the BBC’s lead and measure class diversity, too
The BBC is doing something I think is awesome but many of my American friends think is awful: gathering information of the social class background of their recruits. The move is part of an aggressive...
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