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.
Building Economic Self-Sufficiency
- Carolyn Heinrich and Timothy Smeeding
- Fast Focus Policy Brief
- September 2014
Helping the Hard-to-Employ and Their Families
- Carolyn Heinrich and Timothy Smeeding
- Fast Focus Policy Brief
- September 2014
Kids, Marriage, and Work: Behavioral Decisions Around the EITC
- Sarah Halpern-Meekin
- Podcasts
- August 2014
The cost of breaking up
- Laura Tach and Alicia Eads
- Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
- Fall/Winter (2013-2014) 2014
Results of the federal urban Empowerment Zone program
- Matias Busso, Jesse Gregory, and Patrick Kline
- Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
- Spring/Summer 2013
The EITC and Tax Refunds for Low-Income Tax Filers
- Damon Jones
- Podcasts
- December 2012
Disconnected Americans
- Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
- Fall/Winter (2011-2012) 2012
From multiple program participation to disconnection in Wisconsin
- Maria Cancian, Eunhee Han, and Jennifer L. Noyes
- Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
- Fall/Winter (2011-2012) 2012
The disconnected population in Tennessee
- Donald Bruce, William Hamblen, and Xiaowen Liu
- Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
- Fall/Winter (2011-2012) 2012
How former prisoners become connected
- David J. Harding, Jessica J. B. Wyse, Cheyney Dobson, and Jeffrey D. Morenoff
- Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
- Fall/Winter (2011-2012) 2012