Jason Deparle

Jason Deparle is the general assignment correspondent for The New York Times. Since joining The Times in 1989, DeParle has regularly covered anti-poverty policy. Reporting from Washington, he wrote about the debate leading to the 1996 law that abolished entitlement to cash assistance and created time limits and work requirements. Since then he has written extensively about state efforts to implement the law. DeParle served as a staff writer for The New York Times from 1995–1997. Before joining The Times, he was an editor at The Washington Monthly, a reporter at The Times-Picayune and a staff writer at The New Republic magazine. In 1986–87, he was a Henry Luce Scholar in the Philippines, working with a community development group in a squatter camp. While at the Shorenstein Center, DeParle wrote American Dream, published in 2004 by Viking Press.