Social insurance programs provide benefits to individuals who have paid into the program, or whose employers have paid into the program on their behalf, often in the form of payroll taxes. The major U.S. social insurance programs are Social Security, Medicare, Unemployment Insurance, Workers’ Compensation, and Disability Insurance.
Lars Højsgaard Andersen on the Consequences of Lowering Welfare Benefits for Migrants and Their Families
- Lars Højsgaard Andersen
- Podcasts
- January 2020
Leslie Hodges on Unemployment Insurance and Material Hardships
- Leslie Hodges
- Podcasts
- October 2019
Understanding benefit cliffs and marginal tax rates
- Fast Focus Policy Brief
- September 2019
Declining Returns to Low-Wage Work in Wisconsin
- Anna Walther
- Poverty Fact Sheet
- September 2019
Policy approaches to reducing poverty and deep poverty among children
- Hilary Hoynes, Robert Moffitt, and Timothy Smeeding
- Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
- September 2019
Wisconsin Poverty Report Update: Why isn’t the Economy Doing More to Reduce Poverty in Wisconsin?
- Timothy Smeeding
- Webinar
- July 17 2019
Damon Jones on Whether a Modest Basic Income Might Lead People to Work Less
- Damon Jones
- Podcasts
- July 2019
Is Retirement Planning Possible for Low-income Families?
- J. Michael Collins
- Webinar
- May 22 2019
Cutting the Child Poverty Rate by Half: A Report from the National Academies
- Hilary Hoynes and Robert Moffitt
- Webinar
- May 15 2019
Key Questions in U.S. Disability Policy
- Manasi Deshpande
- Webinar
- December 5 2018