Financial Security

Financial insecurity occurs when an individual or family experiences inadequate or inconsistent economic resources to acquire basic necessities and meet expenses.

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Policy approaches to reducing poverty and deep poverty among children

  • Hilary Hoynes, Robert Moffitt, and Timothy Smeeding
  • Focus & Focus+
  • 2019
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Is Retirement Planning Possible for Low-income Families?

  • J. Michael Collins
  • Webinar
  • 2019
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Marci Ybarra on the Administrative Burdens of Research in Non-Profit Settings

  • Marci Ybarra
  • Podcast
  • 2019
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Final Impact Findings from the Child Support Noncustodial Parent Employment Demonstration (CSPED)

  • Maria Cancian, Daniel R. Meyer, and Robert G. Wood
  • Report
  • 2019
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Final Impact Findings from the Child Support Noncustodial Parent Employment Demonstration (CSPED): Technical Supplement

  • Maria Cancian, Daniel R. Meyer, Lawrence M. Berger, Angela Guarin , Leslie Hodges, Katherine Anne Magnuson, Lisa Klein Vogel, Melody Waring, Robert G. Wood, Quinn Moore, and April Yanyuan Wu
  • Report
  • 2019
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Moving into and out of rural poverty

  • José D. Pacas and Elizabeth E. Davis
  • Focus & Focus+
  • 2018
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Rural-urban disparity in poverty persistence

  • Iryna Kyzyma
  • Focus & Focus+
  • 2018
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Child poverty in rural America

  • David Rothwell and Brian C. Thiede
  • Focus & Focus+
  • 2018
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Fifty years after The People Left Behind: The unfinished challenge of reducing rural poverty

  • Bruce Weber
  • Focus & Focus+
  • 2018
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Are rural Americans still behind?

  • James P. Ziliak
  • Focus & Focus+
  • 2018