The Canadian federal government should enhance the human and financial capital of children in less wealthy families, enhance market incomes of lower paid workers, and enhance the security of work...
I am in Washington DC at the Brookings Institution participating in a conference based on the papers that will appear in the next issue of the Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, and specifica...
https://milescorak.com/2016/03/11/higher-inequality-leads-children-to-drop-out-of-high-school/
The summer issue of the Journal of Economic Perspectives will feature a collection of articles on inequality and the top 1%, some of which are now being circulated by the authors. The paper by To...
The Universal Declaration on Human Rights, which we celebrate every December 10th, offers both a powerful and beautiful statement of what it means to be human and the goals we should pursue as a ...
https://milescorak.com/2012/12/09/the-right-way-to-think-about-social-and-economic-rights/
The American education system is of relatively more advantage to the relatively advantaged. As a result it does less than it could to promote opportunity. In response to my July 10th testimony to...
Is the American Dream harder to achieve now than a generation ago? In response to my July 10th testimony to the Senate Committee on Finance hearing on “Helping Young People Achieve the American...
They are easy to spot. A certain glaze over the pupils; quick, frequent glances this way and that; puzzled pauses before adjusting course and setting out again in another direction: first year un...
https://milescorak.com/2012/09/04/how-the-invisible-hand-points-students-to-a-job/
Children are less healthy at birth when they are born to low income families, and their health in early life echoes into adulthood determining the chances of success and independence decades late...
https://milescorak.com/2012/06/11/why-does-health-in-early-life-matter/
In a speech given this morning to announce an update on the government’s Strategy for Social Mobility, Nick Clegg, the Deputy Prime Minster of the United Kingdom, said that “We need an open s...
This is the question Isabel Sawhill of the Brookings Institution asks in a tightly written discussion of the factors relating inequality with opportunity. Sawhill’s answer: “at current levels...
https://milescorak.com/2012/04/04/are-we-headed-toward-a-permanently-divided-society/