*New report* out about unemployment insurance administration financing.

The funding process is a key contributor to prominent system failures, including the estimated $100+ billion in pandemic fraud and months-long delays getting benefits to claimants:
niskanencenter.org/getting-the-jo…

Thanks, Dr. Tom Mueller. ☺️ I confess that I'm really proud of the work in this book, its advancement of a monthly poverty measure, the use of atypical data to make sense of 2020-22, the care given to policy takeaways, and more. I hope you and others who read it will find it useful.

❗️One year post-doc at Dondena Centre Università Bocconi in the Prin project “Break the bias: new data and methods to investigate presence + impact of gender stereotypes on econ outcomes”. Deadline 16/5. unibocconi.EU/faculty-postdoc Apply or get in touch if interested❗️

My new LIS paper with David Brady (@davebrady72.bsky.social), Ive Marx, & Zach Parolin – 'Poverty and Poverty Reduction Among Non-Elderly, Nondisabled, Childless Adults', prepared for The Hamilton Project – is now Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality Working Paper #84. Comments welcomed!

stonecenter.gc.cuny.edu/research/pover…

Good morning #PAA2024 !

Visit us today in the exhibit hall. Take a look at our latest books and journals. You might find an author! This is Zach Parolin with his book Poverty in the Pandemic.

Another paper (by Janet Gornick, David Brady (@davebrady72.bsky.social), Ive Marx, and Zach Parolin) demonstrates that various other western, industrialized nations do considerably more to aid and reduce poverty among this group than the US does hamiltonproject.org/publication/po…

Looking forward to PAA this week! If you're attending the Welcome Reception on Wednesday and want to exchange thoughts on inequality, poverty, policy, mobility, labor markets (how fun!) or Serie A or the top 10 American innovations to Italian food, please do be in touch. #PAA2024

New paper just accepted at Demography Journal with Regina Baker & Ryan Finnigan: “The Role of Single Motherhood in America’s High Child Poverty.”

The role is small or modest. The US would have HIGH child poverty even if there was ZERO single motherhood.

bradydave.wordpress.com/wp-content/upl…

Post-doc vacancy in Rome at Sapienza. One week left to apply for this post with Dario Guarascio on 'Living and working conditions in the digital economy.' Joint project with Bocconi and Bari teams. Details here: bandi.mur.gov.it/bandi.php/publ….

Depending on which (respected) database you look at, the richest 1% of Peruvians earn 8% or 28% of total income... Differences in data sources, concepts and methods make a huge difference to the inequality estimates made available to the public. Which one, if any, is right? 👇🏾

New: TANF is the only monthly child assistance program for low-income families in several states. But it has baked in flaws that make it difficult to administer and receive. My deep dive into TANF, and how it works (or doesn't) for very poor Americans:
newrepublic.com/article/180073…

This week, do not forget the round table Inequality in Human Societies, with Branko Milanovic, Zach Parolin and myself, chaired by Letizia Mencarini (March 26, 4pm CET, 11am EDT). Remote attendance from the link below (passcode 809191) Dondena Centre Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality
unibocconi-it.zoom.us/j/98004804094?…

A super important paper. Looking forward to speaking with Zach Parolin next week in Milan.