The poverty rate has fallen from over 15 percent in 1993 — one of its highest levels in three decades, to 11.3 percent in 2000 — its lowest level in two decades. What events triggered entries into and exits from poverty during the last three decades? What role do events such as changes in...

The Division of Policy Evaluation (DPE) at the Social Security Administration (SSA) is developing a model to evaluate the distributional effects of Social Security policy changes. The model is referred to as Modeling Income in the Near Term, or MINT, because the project sought to develop within...