Professor Martha Bailey’s latest research, featured by the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), offers a comprehensive reevaluation of landmark War on Poverty programs over six decades later. Drawing on newly available large-scale data, Bailey and her collaborators investigate how initiatives like Head Start, Food Stamps, family planning, and community health centers have shaped economic mobility, health, and wellbeing for generations. Their findings reveal that these programs not only reduced poverty in the long run but also delivered substantial fiscal benefits.
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