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.
Barriers to public service delivery and receipt
- Fast Focus Policy Brief
- March 2019
How are Child Support Burdens Related to Child Support Payments, Compliance, and Regularity?
- Leslie Hodges, Daniel R. Meyer, and Maria Cancian
- Report
- March 2019
Potential Effects of a Self-Support Reserve in Wisconsin
- Maria Cancian, Molly Costanzo, Angela Guarin, Leslie Hodges, and Daniel R. Meyer
- Report
- March 2019
Key Questions in U.S. Disability Policy
- Manasi Deshpande
- Webinar
- December 5 2018
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
Child poverty in rural America
- David Rothwell and Brian C. Thiede
- Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
- December 2018
Jacob Bastian on the Real Costs of the EITC
- Jacob Bastian
- Podcasts
- November 2018
Work Requirements in the Safety Net and the Challenges of Implementation
- Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach and Ron Haskins
- Webinar
- October 31 2018
Are rural Americans still behind?
- James P. Ziliak
- Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
- October 2018