| Events by Douglas J. Besharov |
| Joseph J. and Violet Jacobs Scholar in Social Welfare Studies |
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Prices, Poverty, and Inequality: Why Americans Are Better Off Than You Think
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Monday, December 15, 2008
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| Christian Broda and David Weinstein argue that the conventional wisdom that the economic well-being of all but the wealthiest Americans has stagnated or declined over the past twenty-five years is |
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Corporate Responsibility in an Era of New Internationalism
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Thursday, December 4, 2008
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| Expert panels will discuss the changing roles of corporations and governments in light of the growing influence of international organizations. |
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The Poverty of "The Poverty Rate": Measure and Mismeasure of Want in Modern America
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Wednesday, November 19, 2008
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| Nicholas Eberstadt discusses his new book in which he finds that the OPR is a flawed index generating increasingly misleading numbers about poverty in the United States. |
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Why Did Welfare Caseloads Collapse? The Mystery of Diversion
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Friday, November 14, 2008
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| At this conference, leading field researchers will discuss the history, transformation and future of welfare. |
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Income and Poverty: The Real Story behind the Census Bureau Numbers
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Monday, August 25, 2008
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| At this AEI event, poverty research consultant Richard Bavier, AEI economist Desmond Lachman, and Urban Institute poverty expert Sheila Zedlewski will discuss the meaning and implications of the 2007 |
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The Myth of the Declining Middle Class
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Tuesday, March 18, 2008
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| Is the American middle class fighting for its life? Is there truly a "middle class squeeze"? |
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Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance Coverage
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Monday, August 27, 2007
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| In anticipation of the August 28 release of the U.S. Census Bureau’s “Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance Coverage” report, AEI scholars Joseph Antos, Douglas J. Besharov, and Karlyn Bowman will |
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Measuring Poverty after Katrina
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Monday, August 28, 2006
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| AEI scholars Douglas J. Besharov and Nicholas Eberstadt will be joined by W. Wilson Goode Sr., former mayor of Philadelphia to discuss the numbers that The Census Bureau will release on |
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Character and Cops: Ethics in Policing
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Thursday, April 20, 2006
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| How can today's police officers can meet the ethical challenges of policing while living up to heightened demands for better security? |
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The Health Disparities Myth
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Wednesday, February 22, 2006
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| Many experts today insist that a patient's race profoundly affects how the medical-care system deals with him. |
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| Research Areas |
| Education (vocational, high-school counseling, Affirmative Action, and student aid) |
| Poverty (trends, causes, and remedies) |
| Welfare reform (job training and program evaluation) |
| Families (marriage, divorce, same-sex marriage, and nonmarital births) |
| Child abuse/child welfare (foster care and delinquency) |
| Preschool and child care (Head Start) |
| Race and ethnicity (Affirmative Action and black middle class) |
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| Welfare Reform Academy |
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| Contact Information |
Douglas J. Besharov
American Enterprise Institute
1150 Seventeenth Street, N.W.
Washington, DC 20036
Phone: 202-862-5904
Fax: 202-862-5802
E-mail: DBesharov@aei.org
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Family and Child Well-Being after Welfare Reform
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| This book explores how low-income children and their families are faring in the wake of welfare reform. [Read More] |
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