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Jeffrey M. Jones is the Associate Director of Facilities, Operations & Events at the Hoover Institution. In this capacity, he oversees Hoover’s physical resources, guides an active events team, and leads large-scale capital improvement projects. Jones is responsible for the planning and execution of the new George P. Shultz building. The 55,084 square foot facility includes offices for fellows, conference space, and a digitization studio for the archives.
At Hoover, Jones has managed a variety of institutional programs, including book production/ distribution, VIP leadership events, and outreach products. He led the design, construction, and opening in 2017 of the David and Joan Traitel Building, the first new Hoover facility on Stanford’s campus in nearly four decades. Jones is a former research fellow who specialized in U.S. poverty policy, focusing on welfare reform, employment benefits, housing, and federal entitlement programs.
Jones’ career began in the field of social work as an AmeriCorps*VISTA member assisting the homeless in Rockford, IL. He was the executive director of a nonprofit jobs agency serving disadvantaged populations and implementing various welfare-to-work programs.
The son of an Air Force pilot, Jones has a bachelor’s degree in political science from Wheaton College and a master’s in public policy from Pepperdine University. He lives in Menlo Park with his wife and four children.
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The U.S. Senate spent the better part of its summer fighting a protracted battle over extending a program that provides up to 99 weeks of unemployment insurance benefits to millions of out-of-work Americans.
There is little doubt that our nation’s social safety net is straining under the weight of long-term unemployment and rising poverty. But this tenuous condition cannot be blamed on the Great Recession.
What can government do to help the growing number of poor people in the United States...?
No matter how dangerous the waters, entrepreneurs plunge in. How government can stay out of their way. By Jeffrey M. Jones.
Every day we're reminded of just how bad this recession is...
Redistribution schemes can’t reduce income inequality. What can? Education, stable families, and work. By Jeffrey M. Jones and Daniel Heil.
When Who Really Cares was first released in late 2006 the political right greeted it as a bombshell exposing the widely-held, yet fraudulent, belief that liberals are more compassionate than conservatives...
Look at the biggest antipoverty success story of recent years—welfare reform—and you might see the makings of a solution to illegal immigration. By Jeffery M. Jones.
John Edwards' upcoming "Road to One America" tour, billed as a break from campaigning, is the former senator's most recent attempt to draw attention to the issue of poverty...
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