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Racing ahead or falling behind? 6 economic facts about transportation infrastructure in the United States
A founding principle of The Hamilton Project’s economic strategy is that long-term prosperity is best achieved by fostering economic growth and broad participation in that growth. This strategy includes an essential role for effective government to make much-needed public investments.
Who loses SNAP benefits if additional work requirements are imposed? Workers.
As Congress moves forward with its consideration of the 2018 Farm Bill in the weeks ahead, the U.S. House and Senate will have to reconcile their differences on a range of agriculture, nutrition, conservation, and forestry policy issues contained within the landmark legislation.
Employment status changes put millions at risk of losing SNAP benefits for years
As the Senate moves toward conference with the House of Representatives on the 2018 Farm Bill, the central policy issue the two chambers must resolve is whether to impose even more work requirements on those receiving Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP; formerly the Food Stamp Program) benefits. New research shows that many beneficiaries would have difficulty meeting the requirements and would lose their benefits.
Reducing food insecurity among households with children is still a challenge for the United States
Households across the United States continue to have difficulty in providing enough food for all their members at a given time during the year, due to a lack of resources. In 2016, 12.3 percent of households were food insecure. In households with children, 16.5 percent did not have consistent access to adequate food. Household rates of food insecurity were not statistically significantly lower than 2015.
Why wages aren’t growing in America
The majority of Americans share in economic growth through the wages they receive for their labor, rather than through investment income. Unfortunately, many of these workers have fared poorly in recent decades. Since the early 1970s, the hourly inflation-adjusted wages received by the typical worker have barely risen, growing only 0.2 percent per year. In other words, though the economy has been growing, the primary way most people benefit from that growth has almost completely stalled.
Thirteen facts about wage growth
The expectation of rising living standards, with each generation doing better than the one before, has long been a given. More recently, that expectation has diminished—and with good reason. One of the best measures economists use to determine Americans’ economic advancement is whether wages are rising, broadly and consistently.
Putting your major to work: Career paths after college | Brookings Institution
For most people, a college degree is helpful for flourishing in the labor market. College graduates earn more than workers with less education—on average, about $600,000 more over their lifetimes than workers with only a high school education. College graduates also have much lower levels of unemployment, enjoy better health, and have lower mortality rates.[1] However, not all college experiences have the same benefits.
The exile: The stunning inside story of Osama bin Laden and al-Qaida in flight | Brookings Institution
On May 2, 2011, a team of U.S. Navy SEALS raided Osama bin Laden’s compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, killing America’s number one enemy. Bin Laden was first placed on the FBI’s Most Wanted Terrorists list in 1999 and gained household name recognition after the September 11 attacks, but little is known about the day-to-day experiences of the emir of al-Qaida and the people closest to him, especially after 911.
Where will your degree take you? Career paths after college | Brookings Institution
With graduation season underway, college seniors across the nation are preparing to embark on their careers. For some students, their career path follows directly from what they majored in; others may find their undergraduate course of study less immediately relevant to their work in the years following graduation.
If you build it: a guide to the economics of infrastructure investment | Brookings Institution
Introduction A founding principle of The Hamilton Project’s economic strategy is that long-term prosperity is best achieved by fostering economic growth and broad participation in that growth. In that spirit, this paper seeks to provide an economic framework for evaluating infrastructure investments and their methods of funding and finance.
Twelve facts about incarceration and prisoner reentry
Over the past several decades the national experience of crime and incarceration has fluctuated dramatically. Crime rose between the 1960s and 1980s, but has declined since 1990. Incarceration began rising sharply in the 1980s and peaked in the 2000s before starting to fall. The high rates of incarceration over the last three-and-a-half decades have resulted in a large population of formerly incarcerated individuals across the United States.
Twelve facts about food insecurity and SNAP
The problem of hunger in America is troubling. One in seven households was food insecure in 2014—meaning that at some time during the year they had difficulty providing enough food for all of their members due to a lack of resources. 15 million children live in food-insecure households.
twelve facts about food security and SNAP
To be sure, the phenomenon of food insecurity in the United States is not equivalent to the severe malnutrition observed in some developing countries. Nonetheless, it has far-reaching impacts on the health and well-being of an unacceptably large number of Americans adults and children. The common-sense notion that lack of access to food is harmful has been established by rigorous research. Children living in food-insecure households tend to have a lower health-related quality of life (Casey et al.
Six economic facts about health care and health insurance markets after the Affordable Care Act
Fact 1: Spending on health-care resources varies widely across the country: spending for the average Medicare enrollee in Miami is nearly 70 percent greater than in Minneapolis. Figure 1. Average Medicare Reimbursements per Enrollee, by Hospital Referral Region, Adjusted for Price, Age, Sex, and Race, 2012 Source: The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice (2015).
Six Economic Facts about Health Care and Health Insurance Markets
Abaluck, Jason, and Jonathan Gruber. 2011a. “Heterogeneity in Choice Inconsistencies among the Elderly: Evidence from Prescription Drug Plan Choice.” American Economic Review 101 (3): 377–81. ———. 2011b. “Choice Inconsistencies among the Elderly: Evidence from Plan Choice in the Medicare Part D Program.” American Economic Review 101 (June): 1180–1210. Bhargava, Saurabh, George Loewenstein, and Justin Sydnor. 2015, May. “Do Individuals Make Sensible Health Insurance Decisions?
Racing ahead or falling behind? 6 economic facts about transportation infrastructure in the United States
A founding principle of The Hamilton Project’s economic strategy is that long-term prosperity is best achieved by fostering economic growth and broad participation in that growth. This strategy includes an essential role for effective government to make much-needed public investments.
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