Means-tested programs limit eligibility to individuals and families whose incomes and or assets fall below a pre-determined threshold (means test). They are generally financed by tax revenues and may take the form of entitlements (e.g., Medicaid, SNAP/Food Stamps) or have spending caps (e.g., State Child Health Insurance Program, housing subsidies, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families).
Administrative Burdens in the time of COVID-19
- Pamela Herd and Donald Moynihan
- Webinar
- May 27 2020
Measuring How Social Relationships Contribute to the Outcomes of Program Participants
- Phillip Graham, Megan Smith, Maureen Berner, and Laura Erickson
- Webinar
- April 1 2020
Cutting Child Poverty in Half: Directions for Policymakers
- Fast Focus Policy Brief
- April 2020
Many Rural Americans Are Still “Left Behind”
- Fast Focus Policy Brief
- January 2020
Understanding benefit cliffs and marginal tax rates
- Fast Focus Policy Brief
- September 2019
Policy approaches to reducing poverty and deep poverty among children
- Hilary Hoynes, Robert Moffitt, and Timothy Smeeding
- Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
- September 2019
Cutting the Child Poverty Rate by Half: A Report from the National Academies
- Hilary Hoynes and Robert Moffitt
- Webinar
- May 15 2019
Barriers to public service delivery and receipt
- Fast Focus Policy Brief
- March 2019
Moving into and out of rural poverty
- José D. Pacas and Elizabeth E. Davis
- Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
- December 2018
Rural-urban disparity in poverty persistence
- Iryna Kyzyma
- Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
- December 2018