Georgetown Public Policy Review
Policy Shaping Our Future
by Betsy Keating In a stereotypical view of the United States, those living in the suburbs are affluent, with larger homes, better schools, and safer neighborhoods, and poverty is a problem only for the inner-city. A recent report published by the Brookings Institution challenges this assumption, demonstrating that suburban poverty rates have been steadily rising over […]
We’re now more than a month into 2010, and the need for social policy prescriptions is as high as ever. In his State of the Union on January 28, President Obama admitted as much. The devastation wreaked by the current recession remains, Obama said, and “One in 10 Americans still cannot find work. Many businesses […]