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Economic Security and Poverty
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The Progressive Case for a Unified Child Benefit
This paper reviews the goals of a broad-based child benefit and identifies four criteria that should guide its design: universality, adequacy on an annual and monthly basis, simplicity, and visibility.
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The Defining Down of Economic Deprivation: Why We Need to Reset the Poverty Line
The way the federal government measures poverty, rooted in the economic assumptions of the 1960s and 1990s, is woefully out of date, resulting in a drastic underreporting of families in poverty.
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