President Obama and antipoverty policy: What does the stimulus bill do to fight poverty, educate citizens, and improve public health?
- Timothy Smeeding
- Fast Focus Policy Brief
- 2009
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.
From Policy to Polity: Democracy, Paternalism, and the Incorporation of Disadvantaged Citizens
- Sarah K. Bruch, Myra Marx Ferree, and Joe Soss
- Discussion Paper
- 2009
A state of agents? Third-party governance and implications for human services and their delivery
- Carolyn Heinrich
- Fast Focus Policy Brief
- 2008
The School Breakfast Program and Breakfast Consumption
- Geetha M. Waehrer
- Discussion Paper
- 2008
Inside the War on Poverty: The Impact of Food Stamps on Birth Outcomes
- Douglas Almond, Hilary W. Hoynes, and Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach
- Discussion Paper
- 2008
Poverty Politics and Policy
- Mary Jo Bane
- Discussion Paper
- 2008
The Employment, Earnings, and Income of Single Mothers in Wisconsin Who Left Cash Assistance: Comparisons among Three Cohorts
- Maria Cancian, Robert Haveman, Daniel R. Meyer, and Barbara Wolfe
- Report
- 2003
Patterns of Long-Term Utilization of Medicaid and Food Stamps by Wisconsin Welfare Leavers
- Robert Haveman; Thomas Kaplan; Barbara Wolfe; with Sandra Barone
- Report
- 2002