Social insurance programs provide benefits to individuals who have paid into the program, or whose employers have paid into the program on their behalf, often in the form of payroll taxes. The major U.S. social insurance programs are Social Security, Medicare, Unemployment Insurance, Workers’ Compensation, and Disability Insurance.
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
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
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
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
Katherine Magnuson on the American Families Plan and Child Care as Infrastructure
- Katherine Magnuson
- Podcasts
- May 11 2021
Kathryn Anne Edwards on Women Leaving the Labor Force in the COVID-19 Pandemic
- Kathryn Anne Edwards
- Podcasts
- April 8 2021
Making the U.S. Safety Net More Responsive to Economic Downturns
- Robert A. Moffitt and James P. Ziliak, edited by Mitchell McFarlane
- Fast Focus Policy Brief
- April 2021