What is the future of the Census Bureau’s Survey of Income and Program Participation?

When using the "human capital model" to compare federal workers with workers in the private sector, it is easy to see that federal worker are consistently overcompensated.

Today's official poverty rate is hardly lower than the 1968 rate, but a closer look at forty years of poverty data tells a more mixed story.

We have made progress in the forty years since the War on Poverty, but we must address more issues to help theAfrican-Americancommunity.

America"s most relied-upon metric for charting a course in our national effort to reduce and eliminate poverty appears to offer unreliable, and indeed increasingly misleading, soundings on where we are today, where we have come, and where we seem to be headed.

By giving individuals ownership of their health insurance, the George W. Bush plan begins to change the incentives toward prudent purchasing and better value for our health care dollars.

Following Hurricane Katrina, Mississippi was hit by an insurance storm that caused some companies to stop issuing new policies.

In the Mississippi Senate race, Ronnie Musgrove might benefit from the Obama turnout effect, but not all is dim for Roger Wicker.