The “Great Recession” and redistribution: Federal antipoverty policies
- Gary Burtless
- Fast Focus Policy Brief
- 2009
Means-Tested Programs
Means-tested programs limit eligibility to individuals and families whose incomes and or assets fall below a pre-determined threshold (means test). They are generally financed by tax revenues and may take the form of entitlements (e.g., Medicaid, SNAP/Food Stamps) or have spending caps (e.g., State Child Health Insurance Program, housing subsidies, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families).
Income Poverty and Income Support for Minority and Immigrant Children in Rich Countries
- Timothy M. Smeeding, Karen Robson, Coady Wing, and Jonathan Gershuny
- Discussion Paper
- 2009
Contracting Welfare-to-Work Services: Use and Usefulness
- Pierre Koning
- Discussion Paper
- 2009
Experimental Estimates of the Barriers to Food Stamp Enrollment
- Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach
- Discussion Paper
- 2009
Measuring the “faith factor” in social service program outcomes
- Jennifer L. Noyes
- Fast Focus Policy Brief
- 2009
Changing Poverty and Changing Antipoverty Policies
- Maria Cancian and Sheldon Danziger
- Discussion Paper
- 2009
From Policy to Polity: Democracy, Paternalism, and the Incorporation of Disadvantaged Citizens
- Sarah K. Bruch, Myra Marx Ferree, and Joe Soss
- Discussion Paper
- 2009
A state of agents? Third-party governance and implications for human services and their delivery
- Carolyn Heinrich
- Fast Focus Policy Brief
- 2008
The School Breakfast Program and Breakfast Consumption
- Geetha M. Waehrer
- Discussion Paper
- 2008
Inside the War on Poverty: The Impact of Food Stamps on Birth Outcomes
- Douglas Almond, Hilary W. Hoynes, and Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach
- Discussion Paper
- 2008