May 6, 2020 | Poverty and Economic Mobility, Public Policy Blog
By Janie Ginocchio You might be thinking, “I only know one person named ALICE and she’s my 86-year-old great aunt.” That’s surely true, but what’s true, too, is that ALICE is your waitress at your favorite diner, the lovely people who help you get your groceries to...
Apr 24, 2020 | Poverty and Economic Mobility, Public Policy Blog
Editor’s note: This is one in a series of blog posts to critically examine how poverty is defined, measured, and talked about, and how those conversations influence public policy. The economic ramifications of the COVID-19 pandemic have brought how the U.S. addresses...
Nov 22, 2019 | Poverty and Economic Mobility, Public Policy Blog
By James Owen Editor’s note: This is one in a series of blog posts to critically examine how poverty is defined, measured, and talked about, and how those conversations influence public policy. If you’ve been keeping up with our series on poverty, it should be...
Oct 18, 2019 | Poverty and Economic Mobility, Public Policy Blog
By Kathryn Hazelett Editor’s note: This is one in a series of blog posts to critically examine how poverty is defined, measured, and talked about, and how those conversations influence public policy. Now that we’ve explored the ins and outs of how we define and...
Oct 4, 2019 | Poverty and Economic Mobility, Public Policy Blog
By Kathryn Hazelett Editor’s note: This is one in a series of blog posts to critically examine how poverty is defined, measured, and talked about, and how those conversations influence public policy. Mollie Orshansky figured out “how” we measure poverty. Her...
Sep 6, 2019 | Poverty and Economic Mobility, Public Policy Blog
By Kathryn Hazelett Editor’s note: This is the third in a series of blog posts to critically examine how poverty is defined, measured, and talked about, and how those conversations influence public policy. I know, I know. We’ve been talking about poverty. Why are we...
Aug 30, 2019 | Poverty and Economic Mobility, Public Policy Blog
By Kathryn Hazelett Editor’s note: This is the second in a series of blog posts to critically examine how poverty is defined, measured, and talked about, and how those conversations influence public policy. Last week, we started our series on poverty with a discussion...
Aug 23, 2019 | Poverty and Economic Mobility, Public Policy Blog
By Kathryn Hazelett Nearly 225,000 families live below the poverty line in Arkansas and Mississippi.[1] While we hear and talk about poverty a lot, we’re not always talking the same language. This is the first post in a series looking at how we define poverty, how we...
Nov 21, 2014 | Poverty and Economic Mobility, Public Policy Blog
In October, the Census Bureau released the poverty rate based on the Supplemental Poverty Measure (SPM). This snapshot of poverty in America, which varies somewhat from the standard official measure released in September, accounts for regional differences in...
Feb 4, 2014 | Poverty and Economic Mobility, Public Policy Blog
Despite an improving national economy, 51.9 percent of Arkansans are in a persistent state of financial insecurity, according to a report released last week by the Corporation for Enterprise Development (CFED). CFED’s 2014 Assets & Opportunity Scorecard defines...
