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.
Income Support Policies for Low-Income Men and Noncustodial Fathers: Tax and Transfer Programs
- Ronald B. Mincy, Serena Klempin, and Heather Schmidt
- Discussion Paper
- June 2010
Early findings from New York City’s conditional cash transfer program
- James A. Riccio
- Fast Focus Policy Brief
- May 2010
Estimating Heterogeneous Treatment Effects of Medicaid Expansions on Take-Up and Crowd-Out
- John C. Ham, I. Serkan Ozbeklik, and Lara Shore-Sheppard
- Discussion Paper
- May 2010
The Benefits and Costs of the Section 8 Housing Subsidy Program: A Framework and First-Year Estimates
- Deven Carlson, Robert Haveman, Thomas Kaplan, and Barbara Wolfe
- Discussion Paper
- May 2010
The “Great Recession” and redistribution: Federal antipoverty policies
- Gary Burtless
- Fast Focus Policy Brief
- December 2009
Income Poverty and Income Support for Minority and Immigrant Children in Rich Countries
- Timothy M. Smeeding, Karen Robson, Coady Wing, and Jonathan Gershuny
- Discussion Paper
- December 2009
Contracting Welfare-to-Work Services: Use and Usefulness
- Pierre Koning
- Discussion Paper
- November 2009
Experimental Estimates of the Barriers to Food Stamp Enrollment
- Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach
- Discussion Paper
- September 2009
Measuring the “faith factor” in social service program outcomes
- Jennifer L. Noyes
- Fast Focus Policy Brief
- June 2009
Changing Poverty and Changing Antipoverty Policies
- Maria Cancian and Sheldon Danziger
- Discussion Paper
- April 2009