New Issue of Stanford’s Pathways Magazine on “Jobs, Joblessness, and the New American Poverty”

New Issue of Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality’s Pathways Magazine on “Jobs, Joblessness, and the New American Poverty” (Summer 2014).  Contents below:

Table of Contents – Summer 2014

Editors’ Note by David Grusky, Charles Varner, and Michelle Poulin

Intervention

•  Do Millionaires Migrate When Tax Rates Are Raised?
  Cristobal Young and Charles Varner
  The millionaire tax is all the rage. But New Jersey Governor Chris Christie warns us, “Ladies and gentlemen, if you tax them, they will leave.” Is he right?

Research in Brief

• Research in Brief
  Michelle Poulin and Marybeth Mattingly
  The effects of the carework revolution on job polarization; new results on the mobility of the super-rich; and the best research to date on the Hispanic Health Paradox

Jobs, Joblessness, and the New American Poverty

• Are Jobs the Solution to Poverty?
  Marianne Page
  The long-standing relationship between jobs and poverty has weakened of late. Why has this happened? And what does it mean for the poverty policy of the future?
• Does Immigration Hurt the Poor?
  Giovanni Peri
  When jobs are scarce, it’s tempting to “put a fence” around them by restricting immigration, thereby ensuring that the available jobs at least go to the native poor. But are the poor really helped by restrictive immigration policy? The latest evidence is presented here.
• Labor Market Shocks: Are There Lessons for Antipoverty Policy?
  Ann Huff Stevens
  The old mantra was that poverty is about “way more than money.” The great virtue of recessions, for all the pain they cause, is that they at least allow us to test that claim. The new mantra coming out of this research: Money matters.
• A Revolution in Poverty Policy: The Earned Income Tax Credit and the Well-Being of American Families
  Hilary W. Hoynes
  What is the cornerstone policy in the country’s “second war” on poverty? Find out here.

Trends

• The Rise of Extreme Poverty in the United States
  H. Luke Shaefer and Kathryn Edin
  There just isn’t any $2 dollar-per-day poverty in the United States. Right? The research presented here shows why that common claim is dead wrong.