Although many opponents of welfare reform predicted that it would increase hardship, the official poverty rate for female headed families with children fell from 42 percent in 1996 to 34 percent in 2002. Skeptics have nonetheless argued that declines in official poverty rates may have been...

Observers of all ideological persuasions are concerned about the long-term decline in male labor force participation. Explanations for this drop fall into one of three categories. Some analysts, including those in the Obama administration's Council of Economic Advisers, argue that declining...

The recent presidential campaign revived concerns about the state of the American job market. Many observers who are convinced that improving employment indicators mask pervasive hardship cite the increase in the number of prime-age men (those between the ages of 25 and 54) who are neither...

There have been several attempts to measure social capital - the value inhering in relationships - at an aggregate level, but researchers lack comprehensive individual-level social capital measures. Using a combination of direct linkage and imputation across several nationally representative...

There have been several attempts to measure social capital-the value inhering in relationships-at an aggregate level, but researchers lack comprehensive individual-level social capital measures. Using a combination of direct linkage and imputation across several nationally representative...

There have been several attempts to measure social capital-the value inhering in relationships-at an aggregate level, but researchers lack comprehensive individual-level social capital measures. Using a combination of direct linkage and imputation across several nationally representative...