Housing Assistance, Poverty, and Material Hardship
This article documents the antipoverty effects of housing assistance programs and their relationships with other life circumstances.
Economic Security and Poverty
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Subsidized Employment Can Help Fight Poverty in Good Times & Bad
Nearly 15 million people in the U.S. who would like to work are unable to find a job right now—despite a historically low national unemployment rate.
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Poverty Correlates with the Recent Increase in Gun Violence
Eliminating poverty will bring numerous social benefits to US society, and one of them might be a significant reduction in the country’s extremely high rate of gun violence.
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Marking TANF’s 26th Anniversary with a List of Its Failures
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What Do Fertility and Football Have to Do with Clinton-Gingrich Welfare Reform? Read This to Find Out
TANF is a poorly designed, failed program with misguided purposes, including the sexual regulation of working-class people, and it needs to be repealed and replaced.
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Cryptocurrency: Black and Low-Income Communities’ “Shiny New Way to Get Ripped-Off,” Says CEPR Economist
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Watered Down Child Benefit Proposal Imposes Earnings Test, Excludes Millions of Children
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Romney’s Retreat and the Future of Child Allowances in the United States
Romney’s new child benefit proposal is a retreat from his earlier commitment to “not connect work and childbearing in the same policy.”
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Economic Recovery Leaves Behind Working-Class Women and Mothers
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