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.
President Obama and antipoverty policy: What does the stimulus bill do to fight poverty, educate citizens, and improve public health?
- Timothy Smeeding
- Fast Focus Policy Brief
- March 2009
From Policy to Polity: Democracy, Paternalism, and the Incorporation of Disadvantaged Citizens
- Sarah K. Bruch, Myra Marx Ferree, and Joe Soss
- Discussion Paper
- January 2009
A state of agents? Third-party governance and implications for human services and their delivery
- Carolyn Heinrich
- Fast Focus Policy Brief
- December 2008
The School Breakfast Program and Breakfast Consumption
- Geetha M. Waehrer
- Discussion Paper
- October 2008
Inside the War on Poverty: The Impact of Food Stamps on Birth Outcomes
- Douglas Almond, Hilary W. Hoynes, and Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach
- Discussion Paper
- October 2008
Poverty Politics and Policy
- Mary Jo Bane
- Discussion Paper
- September 2008
The Employment, Earnings, and Income of Single Mothers in Wisconsin Who Left Cash Assistance: Comparisons among Three Cohorts
- Maria Cancian, Robert Haveman, Daniel R. Meyer, and Barbara Wolfe
- Report
- January 2003
Patterns of Long-Term Utilization of Medicaid and Food Stamps by Wisconsin Welfare Leavers
- Robert Haveman; Thomas Kaplan; Barbara Wolfe; with Sandra Barone
- Report
- July 2002