Economic Support

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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It’s Not Like I’m Poor: How Working Families Make Ends Meet in a Post-Welfare World

  • Sarah Halpern-Meekin, Kathryn Edin, and Laura Tach
  • Webinar
  • 2015
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Emergency Savings for Low-Income Households

  • J. Michael Collins and Ida Rademacher
  • Webinar
  • 2014
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Roles and Resources in Complex Families

  • Lawrence Berger
  • Podcasts
  • 2014
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Building human capital and economic potential

  • Carolyn J. Heinrich and Timothy M. Smeeding
  • Fast Focus Policy Brief
  • 2014
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Building Economic Self-Sufficiency

  • Carolyn Heinrich and Timothy Smeeding
  • Fast Focus Policy Brief
  • 2014
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Helping the Hard-to-Employ and Their Families

  • Carolyn Heinrich and Timothy Smeeding
  • Fast Focus Policy Brief
  • 2014
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Whose money matters?

  • Alexandra Killewald
  • Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
  • 2014
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Kids, Marriage, and Work: Behavioral Decisions Around the EITC

  • Sarah Halpern-Meekin
  • Podcasts
  • 2014
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Measuring progress in the fight against poverty

  • Gregory Acs
  • Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
  • 2014
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Work-exempt TANF participants

  • Marci Ybarra
  • Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
  • 2014