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.
How have the Working Poor and Working Class Fared since the Great Recession?
- Erica Groshen, Timothy Smeeding, Fenaba Addo, William Darity, Jr., Jasmine Simington, and Jeff Smith
- Webinar
- October 27 2021
Judi Bartfeld On Food Insecurity Rates And The Increase In SNAP Benefits
- Judi Bartfeld
- Podcasts
- October 15 2021
Early Impacts of the Expanded Child Tax Credit
- Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach, Zachary Parolin, Samuel Hammond, and Timothy Smeeding
- Webinar
- October 13 2021
J. Michael Collins on whether allowances help to develop financial capability
- J. Michael Collins
- Podcasts
- September 13 2021
Tax Policy For Low-Income Americans – Web Conference
- Organized by Bradley Hardy and James P. Ziliak
- Webinar
- August 27 2021
Delivering the Expanded Child Tax Credit
- Elaine Maag, Megan Curran, and Sarah Halpern-Meekin
- Webinar
- June 23 2021
What’s Next in Virtual Human Services
- Annette Waters, Matthew Lyons, and Nadeem Siddiqi
- Webinar
- June 09 2021
Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement 37(1), June 2021
Assessing the Responsiveness of the U.S. Safety Net to the COVID-19 Economic Crisis
- Edited by Emma Caspar, Judith Siers-Poisson, and James T. Spartz
- Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
- June 2021
Modernizing the Unemployment Insurance System to Better Respond to Economic Downturns
- Till von Wachter
- Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
- June 2021
Reforming housing assistance to better respond to recipient needs
- Robert Collinson, Ingrid Gould Ellen, and Jens Ludwig
- Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
- June 2021