Assessing the risks of subprime mortgages as the housing market changes and lenders offer low-income people new options
Showing how much the federal government spends on children across more than 100 programs and whether children are holding their own relative to other national priorities
Developing an integrated strategy and action plan for mortgage finance development in Tanzania
Defining the public and private safety net for low-income working families, identifying gaps, and proposing fixes
Helping New York, Connecticut, and Missouri with some analyses needed to decide whether it's economically feasible to follow Massachusetts's move in 2006 to near-universal health care
Releasing ideas for options to reform Social Security that would strike a balance between protecting the vulnerable elderly and curbing costs
Showcasing groundbreaking research papers on our new National Center for Analysis of Longitudinal Data in Education Research (CALDER) website
Looking at ways to make childcare work for low-income working families
Showing how mapping the return of prisoners to communities can help both make the difficult adjustment
Publishing a new book on the dramatic shifts in the boundaries between nonprofit and for-profit activities and what they mean for nonprofits
Exploring the role of adult education in workforce development and examining which strategies help local workers and employers
With reauthorization of the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) set for 2007, highlighting the 1.8 million uninsured children eligible for this program
Suggesting options for fixing the alternative minimum tax without adding to the deficit
Consolidating our many years of work on financing Medicaid by completing a study on the need for Medicaid reform as costs increase and disparities in the coverage and benefits offered by different states grow
Bringing out new editions of two UI Press bestsellers—Harry Hatry's Performance Measurement: Getting Results and Eugene Steuerle's Contemporary U.S. Tax Policy
Developing improved tools to measure and improve the effectiveness of community services for use by both public-service managers and elected officials
Mapping the geographic distribution of taxes paid and location of households affected by the AMT and other aspects of the federal tax code
Focusing our After Katrina research on the work of faith-based organizations, New Orleans’ arts and cultural community revitalization, and promising practices for creating affordable housing in mixed-income neighborhoods
