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).
Amy Castro on Early Results from Guaranteed Income Programs
- Amy Castro
- Podcasts
- December 15 2021
The Connection Between Unpredictable Work Schedules and Meeting Basic Household Needs
- Fast Focus Policy Brief
- November 29 2021
How have the Working Poor and Working Class Fared since the Great Recession?
- Erica Groshen, Timothy Smeeding, Fenaba Addo, William Darity, Jr., Jasmine Simington, and Jeff Smith
- Webinar
- October 27 2021
Reforming housing assistance to better respond to recipient needs
- Robert Collinson, Ingrid Gould Ellen, and Jens Ludwig
- Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
- June 2021
Options to Improve the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)
- Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach
- Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
- June 2021
Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement 37(1), June 2021
Assessing the Responsiveness of the U.S. Safety Net to the COVID-19 Economic Crisis
- Edited by Emma Caspar, Judith Siers-Poisson, and James T. Spartz
- Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
- June 2021
Making the U.S. Safety Net More Responsive to Economic Downturns
- Robert A. Moffitt and James P. Ziliak, edited by Mitchell McFarlane
- Fast Focus Policy Brief
- April 2021
Focus & Focus+ 36(3), October 2020
COVID-19 and Poverty
- Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
- October 2020
Policy and economic factors that affect food security
- Judith Bartfeld and Fei Men
- Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
- October 2020
Administrative burdens in the time of Covid-19
- Pamela Herd and Donald Moynihan
- Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
- October 2020