“The Eleventh Annual W. J. Usery Distinguished Lecture on the American Workplace, was held on Wednesday, October 8, 2014, at the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies. Robert Moffitt, the Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Economics, Johns Hopkins University [presented] “The Deserving Poor, the Family, and the U.S. Welfare System.” Professor Moffitt’s research focuses on applied microeconometrics and labor economics. His research on the U.S. welfare system has examined the AFDC, Food Stamp, and Medicaid programs. Work in labor economics includes analysis of the labor supply decisions of female heads of family and the labor supply effects of social insurance programs. Methodological research includes publications on selection bias and limited-dependent variable models, nonlinear budget constraints, panel data, attrition, duration models, and causal modeling and program evaluation.”