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Another Win For Child Development Accounts
Kudos to the Center for Social Development (CSD) at the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis for another win in its efforts to expand the use of child development accounts (CDA) to alleviate generational poverty. Thanks to the persistent efforts of CSD Policy Director Margaret Clancy who spearheaded…
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Children Should Not Fear School
I remember during my childhood the “duck and cover drills” we endured in the wake of the invention of the...
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Citizen Trump
I am a huge Orson Welles fan. This weekend I decided to watch Citizen Kane again to escape the daily...
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Rep. Lee at Children’s Mental Health Symposium
Rep. Barbara Lee (CA-13) spoke at the symposium on Federal Policies Impacting Children’s Mental Health Services held October 29, 2013 in the Cannon Caucus Room sponsored by CRISP and the McSilver Institute for Poverty Policy and Research with assistance from...
On the Economy
- Three observations about current monetary policy (the last one is the most important) June 21, 2019If you follow such things, you know that earlier this week, the U.S. central bank shifted its bias from patient waiting to a bias toward rate cuts. Here are three observations about this moment in monetary policy. 1. The market reaction has been interesting as bond yields have tanked while equity prices have climbed. Such... […]Jared Bernstein
