The effectiveness of the U.S. social safety net continues to be an important national issue. Societal changes such as population diversification, policy shifts, and declining employment have [...]
Special editors Jacob Hacker and Paul Pierson assemble researchers in important areas of policy to address how policy feedback can be implemented within the modern political climate. The articles [...]
Who is migrating from Mexico to the United States, and why are they migrating? Since 1982, the Mexican Migration Project (MMP), co-directed by this volume's special editors, has annually gathered [...]
Testing tools are taking an increasingly large and often questionable role in American teaching, learning, and schooling. They are used to assess learning and achievement, to influence curriculum [...]
Work and work experiences rank highly among human values. Work provides structure, supplies financial opportunities, and shapes both career aspirations and personal satisfaction. Attitudes toward [...]
This volume of The ANNALS brings together scholars to explore eleven country case studies of pernicious polarization, and its resulting obstinate political blocs and its effects on democracy...
For 50 years, the PSID has collected data on the same families and their descendants to evaluate poverty dynamics and the various factors that impact well-being, such as employment, marriage, [...]
This volume of The ANNALS proposes a new direction for criminology: pre-empting, supplementing, and enhancing the traditional machinery of justice with a novel framework of intermediary regulation.
Special Editor: Ron Haskins Vol. 678, July 2018 The July volume of The ANNALS, edited by Brookings Institution’s Ron Haskins, provides a survey of the field of evidence-based practices and [...]
The decennial census is much in the news, unusual this far in advance of census day (April 1, 2020). The newsworthiness stems from growing concern that the next census will fall short on the [...]
