The Brookings Institution
Alan Berube, Senior Fellow and Research Director, Metropolitan Policy Program
The Brookings Institution is a nonprofit public policy organization based in Washington, D.C. Its mission is to conduct high-quality, independent research and, based on that research, to provide innovative, practical recommendations. Alan Berube’s areas of expertise include metropolitan demographics, urban poverty, and U.S. social policy. He is a former policy advisor to the U.S. Treasury Department. The following is from the February 2006 report The New Safety Net: How the Tax Code Helped Low-Income Working Families During the Early 2000s. See http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/Files/rc/reports/2006/02childrenfamilies_berube /20060209_newsafety.pdf. The early years of the twenty-first century marked a period of change in both the labor market…
