Cutting Child Poverty in Half: Directions for Policymakers
- Fast Focus Policy Brief
- 2020
Economic Support
Economic support programs are intended to serve people who are unemployed, disabled, have low earnings, or experience other economic or material hardship. They operate under two broad categories: social insurance (such as Social Security and unemployment insurance) and means-tested transfers (such as SNAP/Food Stamps and Medicaid), sometimes called social assistance.
Angela Guarin: Do Low-Income Noncustodial Fathers “Trade” Earlier Families for New Ones?
- Angela Guarin
- Podcasts
- 2020
Pathways to Prosperity and Well-Being: A New Family-Centered Approach to Human Services Delivery
- Leigh Durbahn, Paul Fleissner, Jenny Douville, and Sook Jin Ong
- Webinar
- 2020
Many Rural Americans Are Still “Left Behind”
- Fast Focus Policy Brief
- 2020
Lars Højsgaard Andersen on the Consequences of Lowering Welfare Benefits for Migrants and Their Families
- Lars Højsgaard Andersen
- Podcasts
- 2020
Michael Strain: The American Dream Isn’t Dead
- Michael Strain
- Podcasts
- 2019
Leslie Hodges on Unemployment Insurance and Material Hardships
- Leslie Hodges
- Podcasts
- 2019
Policy approaches to reducing poverty and deep poverty among children
- Hilary Hoynes, Robert Moffitt, and Timothy Smeeding
- Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
- 2019
Understanding benefit cliffs and marginal tax rates
- Fast Focus Policy Brief
- 2019
Declining Returns to Low-Wage Work in Wisconsin
- Anna Walther
- Poverty Fact Sheet
- 2019