Podcast appearances and mentions of Ron Haskins

How to Become a Member of the Two Comma Club, Ep #56This episode focuses on the behaviors needed to become a member of the two-comma club. What exactly is the two-comma club? Well, it's just a different way of saying how to become a millionaire, since one million dollars is represented by 7 numbers, the number 1 followed by 6 zeros, consequently there are two commas required to break those numbers up.In this episode...Who Wants to be a Millionaire [01:26]USA has a lot of millionaires [03:23]The Abundance Mentality [05:49]Prerequisites to becoming a Millionaire: The Success Sequence [07:28]What you should do [09:20]What happens to those that didn't model the behaviors [14:13]Years ago there was a hugely popular game show entitled Who Wants to Be a Millionaire. It captivated the American public. The television network ABC first launched the American version of the game show in 1999 and it became the highest-rated television show later that year, and has since had 21 seasons with several different celebrities serving as the game show host.In 2023 here in the US of A, we have never had more millionaires than we do right now. Based on the latest estimates from the Federal Reserve there are around 16 million American households with a net worth of $1 million or more. That's up from fewer than 10 million millionaire families in 2019.While saving and investing are important behaviors to cultivate on the path to becoming financially independent (or a millionaire) there are prerequisites behaviors that must be mentioned. In an opinion piece in the WSJ by the wonderful Jason Riley, he emphasized the success sequence. That sequence is often credited to research done by Brookings Institution scholars Isabel Sawhill and Ron Haskins, though others have made similar observations. The success sequence is simply this:If you finish high school, get a job, and get married before having children, you have a 98% chance of not being in poverty.Recently Dr. Melissa Kearny, MIT-trained economist wrote a book entitled The Two-Parent Privilege. In it she shared the story of how declining marriage rates are driving many of the country's biggest economic problems and how the greatest impacts of marriage are, in fact, economic: when two adults marry, their economic and household lives improve, offering a host of benefits not only for the married adults but for their children. A summary of the book notes that For many, the two-parent home may be an old-fashioned symbol of the idyllic American dream. But The Two-Parent Privilege makes it clear that marriage, for all its challenges and faults, maybe our best path to a more equitable future.Here are a few additional behaviors I would add:Not borrowing money when you don't have to. Just because you are approved for a loan doesn't mean you can afford the thing you are trying to purchase. Don't confuse approval with proof that you can afford the car or whatever it is you are trying to buy with borrowed money. If a person has a new luxury car they are wasting money and most who have them don't have the money to waste. You should only borrow money to buy an house and pay for some college. And even with college there are many reasons not to borrow money to pay for college. See episodes 15 and 16 of this podcast for more information.Another thing to note, just because a person has a high FICO score it doesn't necessarily mean they have made smart money choices but simply the fact that they have shown the ability to borrow money and pay it back consistently. One's personally accrued net worth and the savings rate is a far better determiners of smart money choices.In the end, it all comes down to discipline. Everything changes...

Many Americans whose beliefs are somewhere in the great political middle are tired of the false dichotomies of left and right. What would a radical centrist agenda — a purple-state alternative to the ideologies forced upon populations in deep-red and deep-blue states — look like?  Isabel Sawhill, a senior fellow in Economic Studies at the Brookings Institution, took on this assignment with her 2018 book The Forgotten Americans: An Economic Agenda for a Divided Nation. Her agenda includes "policies that are better aligned with American values and responsive to people's actual day-to-day needs," with a focus on "the value of work and the importance of jobs and wages." She attempts to thread the divide between a Democratic Party that has "dozens of good policy ideas but a values framework that is sometimes out of step with the country's" and a Republican Party that emphasizes widely shared values (such as personal responsibility) but has abandoned its former commitment to pragmatism and limited but effective government.  In this podcast conversation, Isabel Sawhill discusses her experiences in "growing up in a time when there weren't a lot of opportunities for women," and how she came to work on policy with Brookings and other think tanks as well as in government; during the Clinton administration, she served as an associate director at the Office of Management and Budget, responsible for the oversight of nearly all of the federal government's social programs. She describes her relations with eminent policy-world figures such as Alice Rivlin and Richard Reeves, with whom she co-authored the 2020 study A New Contract with the Middle Class. She also talks about her work with Bush White House veteran Ron Haskins to identify the key correlates of upward mobility, which they famously popularized as "the success sequence," in which about three-quarters of Americans reach the middle class provided that they: 1. Graduate from high school; 2. Maintain a full-time job or have a partner who does; and 3. Have children (if they choose to become parents) after age 21 and while married or in a committed partnership.  She analyzes the factors that have made many Americans feel "left behind" and discouraged about the country's future. According to Sawhill, possible policy remedies include an expansion of vocational education, opportunities for workers adversely impacted by new developments in technology and trade to retrain or relocate, a social insurance system focused on lifelong education and family care in addition to retirement, and ways to repair the culture through national service. She also discusses her recent analysis of emerging threats to democracy and her reasons for remaining optimistic about the fate of the American experiment.

This week, Yaz and Rebekah are talking about the claims that voter laws being enacted are voter suppression. But that’s just the jumping off point. Their discussion certainly isn’t one where they agree much of the time. But in the end, they agree on what success looks like and bounce some ideas off each other on how to get there.  The Success Sequence, originally from a study done by Brookings Scholars, Ron Haskins and Isabel Sawhill, is discussed in this episode. Yaz and Rebekah aren’t saying that it is a foolproof method for everyone but that it has a lot of merit and should be considered. Below you’ll find some articles that discuss this idea as well as the updated Success Sequence for Millennials: https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-sequence-is-the-secret-to-success-1522189894 (Success Sequence Opinion Piece, WSJ ) IFS (Institute for Family Studies): What Does the Success Sequence Mean? https://firstthings.org/the-millennial-success-sequence/ (Millennial Success Sequence) Rebekah quotes from an Eli Steele article. That is linked below as well as a Q&A with Eli, for your reading pleasure: Eli Steele-Re: Georgia Voter Laws Q & A | Black, Deaf, and Jewish Filmmaker Eli Steele is Challenging How We View Race

On this episode, Ron Haskins and Melissa Kearney, co-editors of the Future of Children Journal, discuss the journal’s new edition that focuses how cultural factors—including religion, parenting styles, role models, mentors and the media—shape economic outcomes. Haskins is a senior fellow emeritus in Economic Studies at Brookings and Kearney is the Neil Moskowitz Professor of Economics at the University of Maryland, as well as a Brookings nonresident senior fellow. Also on this episode, David Wessel, senior fellow and director of the Hutchins Center on Fiscal and Monetary Policy, has another economic update in which he shares his concerns about the nation’s economic outlook. You can follow the Brookings Podcast Network on twitter @policypodcasts to get information about and links to all our shows including Dollar and Sense: The Brookings Trade Podcast, The Current, and our events podcast. The Brookings Cafeteria is part of the Brookings Podcast Network.

On Thursday, July 23, Princeton University and the Brookings Institution highlighted the release the latest issue of “Future of Children,” titled “How Cultural Factors Shape Economic Outcomes,” edited by Melissa Kearney and Ron Haskins. The volume aims to identify and measure elements of culture that predict children’s economic and social outcomes, and to present the best evidence to date about how these factors shape children’s economic outcomes. The webinar featured a discussion among some of the volume’s authors and focused on the issues covered in their respective chapters. Subscribe to Brookings Events on iTunes, send feedback email to events@brookings.edu, and follow us and tweet us at @policypodcasts on Twitter. To learn more about upcoming events, visit our website. Brookings Events is part of the Brookings Podcast Network.

The gang is back with an episode teeing off on the life work of the ghoulish Ron Haskins who retired this week from the Brookings Institution. Haskins spent his whole career in politics making life hard on the poor while pretending he cared. We go over what this all means for our politics and discourse and cultural notions of poverty.

On this episode Maureen Leif speaks with Ron Haskins, to discuss the impact that the current COVID crisis has had on Child Welfare. Ron Haskins is a Senior Fellow and Co-director of the Center on Children and Families at the Brookings Institution, where he holds the Cabot Family Chair in Economic Studies. Together with Morgan Welch, a project coordinator on Children and Families also at the Brookings Institution – published an article about the impact this crisis is having on our Child Welfare system. “What COVID-19 means for America's Child Welfare System”.

How are lawmakers using evidence-based policymaking to ensure that taxpayer resources fund the most efficient and effective interventions? Host Justin Milner speaks with experts Demetra Nightingale and Ron Haskins about making decisions and crafting policy based on what’s been proven to work.

In this episode of Intersections, guest interviewer Ron Haskins, co-director of the Brookings Center on Children and Families, discusses changes in the social safety net and the role of cash assistance in meeting the needs of families with children with Luke Shaefer of the University of Michigan and Chris Wimer from Columbia University. Shaefer and Wimer present details from their upcoming papers on the costs and benefits of establishing a universal child allowance to provide families with a measure of financial stability. Full show notes available here: http://brook.gs/2qWHkpW Subscribe to Brookings podcasts here or on iTunes, send us feedback at intersections@brookings.edu, and follow us on Twitter @policypodcasts. Intersections is part of the Brookings Podcast Network.

Lisa Hamilton, Vice President of External Affairs at The Annie E. Casey Foundation, interviews Ron Haskins, on the subject of Poverty & Opportunity. Ron Haskins is a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution. A former White House and Congressional advisor on welfare issues, Ron co-directs the Brookings Center on Children and Families, and is also a consultant with the Casey Foundation. He's an expert on pre-school, foster care, and poverty, and he was instrumental in the 1996 overhaul of national welfare policy. Learn more about this episode of CaseyCast at https://www.aecf.org/blog/moving-kids-out-of-poverty-is-possible-caseys-new-podcast-explores-how/.

What are the key themes of the Obama Administration’s evidence-based policy agenda around grant making and what can state and local leaders learn from those efforts to strengthen the use of evidence in their own jurisdictions? We get perspective on those questions from Ron Haskins, the author (with Greg Margolis) of Show Me the Evidence: Obama’s Fight for Rigor and […] The post The federal evidence agenda & lessons for state/local leaders: An interview with Ron Haskins, Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institution – Episode #70 appeared first on Gov Innovator podcast.

Featuring Jeannine Sato, Ron Haskins, Odell Cleveland, David Drugman and Terri Helmlinger-Ratcliff. This seminar focused on evidence-based jobs programs that may help alleviate unemployment and poverty in North Carolina. Policy experts and practitioners addressed the link between unemployment and poverty and highlighted opportunities for greater prosperity.