10 Facts About Lawrence Mead

Lawrence M Mead III was born on 1943 and is a professor of politics and public policy at New York University.

Lawrence Mead has taught at New York University since 1979.

Lawrence Mead has been a visiting professor at the University of Wisconsin, Harvard University and Princeton University.

Lawrence Mead was a visiting fellow at Princeton and the Hoover Institution at Stanford.

Lawrence Mead has written on poverty and welfare in the United States.

Lawrence Mead's books have influenced welfare reform in Europe, Australia, and New Zealand.

Lawrence Mead has published dozens of articles on poverty, welfare, program implementation, and related subjects in scholarly journals, such as the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Public Administration Review, The Public Interest and the Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science.

Lawrence Mead believes that welfare should be means-tested, so as to encourage behaviors among aid recipients to alleviate their poverty.

On July 21,2020, Lawrence Mead published a commentary in the journal Society titled "Poverty and Culture" based on ideas from his 2019 book Burdens of Freedom but found in his 1983 book, Beyond Entitlement.

Lawrence Mead repeated his hypothesis that while impoverished minorities do value work, their values do not sufficiently guide their actions.