- Special Issue 2017
- Focus-33-3
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This issue begins with a condensed version of UW–Madison Chancellor and longtime IRP Affiliate Rebecca Blank’s Keynote Address at the 2016 IRP Summer Research Workshop. It then summarizes articles that will appear in a forthcoming double issue of RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences focusing on antipoverty policies for the United States. The two-issue volume will be co-published by the Russell Sage Foundation and the Robin Hood Foundation.
- Introduction to the Issue
- Making a difference over 50 years, by Rebecca M. Blank
- Antipoverty policy initiatives for the United States
- A universal child allowance, by H. Luke Shaefer, Sophie Collyer, Greg Duncan, Kathryn Edin, Irwin Garfinkel, David Harris, Timothy Smeeding, Jane Waldfogel, Christopher Wimer, and Hirokazu Yoshikawa
- Cash for kids, by Marianne P. Bitler, Annie L. Hines, and Marianne Page
- Minimum benefit plan for the elderly, by Pamela Herd, Melissa Favreault, Madonna Harrington Meyer, and Timothy Smeeding
- Single-parent-family policy, by Maria Cancian and Daniel R. Meyer
- Renter’s tax credit, by Sara Kimberlin, Laura Tach, and Christopher Wimer
- Boosting the poverty-fighting effects of the minimum wage, by Jennifer Romich and Heather D. Hill
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