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.
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
Final Impact Findings from the Child Support Noncustodial Parent Employment Demonstration (CSPED)
- Maria Cancian, Daniel R. Meyer, and Robert G. Wood
- Report
- March 2019
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
- March 2019
Barriers to public service delivery and receipt
- Fast Focus
- March 2019
Key Questions in U.S. Disability Policy
- Manasi Deshpande
- Webinar
- December 5 2018
Moving into and out of rural poverty
- José D. Pacas and Elizabeth E. Davis
- Focus & Focus+
- December 2018
Rural-urban disparity in poverty persistence
- Iryna Kyzyma
- Focus & Focus+
- December 2018
Child poverty in rural America
- David Rothwell and Brian C. Thiede
- Focus & Focus+
- December 2018
Jacob Bastian on the Real Costs of the EITC
- Jacob Bastian
- Podcast
- November 2018