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.
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Delivering the Expanded Child Tax Credit
- Elaine Maag, Megan Curran, and Sarah Halpern-Meekin
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- June 23 2021
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What’s Next in Virtual Human Services
- Annette Waters, Matthew Lyons, and Nadeem Siddiqi
- Webinar
- June 09 2021
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Options to Improve the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)
- Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach
- Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
- June 2021
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Reforming housing assistance to better respond to recipient needs
- Robert Collinson, Ingrid Gould Ellen, and Jens Ludwig
- Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
- June 2021
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Modernizing the Unemployment Insurance System to Better Respond to Economic Downturns
- Till von Wachter
- Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
- June 2021
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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
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Katherine Magnuson on the American Families Plan and Child Care as Infrastructure
- Katherine Magnuson
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- May 11 2021
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Kathryn Anne Edwards on Women Leaving the Labor Force in the COVID-19 Pandemic
- Kathryn Anne Edwards
- Podcasts
- April 8 2021
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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
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Timothy Smeeding on Proposals for a Refundable Monthly Child Tax Credit
- Timothy Smeeding
- Podcasts
- March 04 2021