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A November 2011 Heritage Foundation report—“Assessing the Compensation of Public-School Teachers”—presented data on teacher salaries and benefits in order to inform debates about teacher compensation reform. The report concluded that public-school teacher compensation is far ahead of what comparable private-sector workers enjoy, and that recruiting more effective teachers will be more difficult than simply raising salaries. The debate over the report’s findings has generated substantiv...

Defining America's "Poor."

A more diverse population requires financial professionals to take a different approach in meeting their needs.

The recent Census Bureau report substantially exaggerates the extent of poverty and economic inequality in the United States. Policies that require welfare recipients to work or prepare forwork as a condition of receiving aid and that encourage theformation of healthy marriages are the best vehicles for furtherreducing poverty.

Labor-Health-Education Appropriations:  Eliminating Waste andEnhancing Accountability

In a response to an earlier blog by Kathy Edin and Luke Shaefer, Ron Haskins explains why their $2-a-day measurement does not provide an accurate picture of how the 1996 welfare reforms are working to reduce poverty.

A 91-year-old great-grandmother and cashier at WinCo Foods in Medford, Oregon, will finally get to retire from a lifetime of working next month when she turns 92, thanks to the generosity of thousands of strangers who donated more than $72,000 to her GoFundMe campaign as of Tuesday.

A 91-year-old great-grandmother and cashier at WinCo Foods in Medford, Oregon, will finally get to retire from a lifetime of working next month when she turns 92, thanks to the generosity of thousands of strangers who donated more than $72,000 to her GoFundMe campaign as of Tuesday.

The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program was created to protect eligible young adults who were brought to the U.S. as children from deportation and to provide them with work authorization for temporary, renewable periods. As of December 31, 2022, there were roughly 580,000 active DACA recipients from close to 200 different countries of<span class="readmore-ellipsis">…</span><a href="https://www.kff.org/racial-equity-and-health-policy/fact-she...

Many believe that the era of good jobs is slipping away. Especially now with the economy weakening, the popular perception is that Americans are less and less able to find jobs that will allow them to support their families.