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).
The “Great Recession” and redistribution: Federal antipoverty policies
- Gary Burtless
- Fast Focus Policy Brief
- December 2009
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
- December 2009
Contracting Welfare-to-Work Services: Use and Usefulness
- Pierre Koning
- Discussion Paper
- November 2009
Experimental Estimates of the Barriers to Food Stamp Enrollment
- Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach
- Discussion Paper
- September 2009
Measuring the “faith factor” in social service program outcomes
- Jennifer L. Noyes
- Fast Focus Policy Brief
- June 2009
Changing Poverty and Changing Antipoverty Policies
- Maria Cancian and Sheldon Danziger
- Discussion Paper
- April 2009
From Policy to Polity: Democracy, Paternalism, and the Incorporation of Disadvantaged Citizens
- Sarah K. Bruch, Myra Marx Ferree, and Joe Soss
- Discussion Paper
- January 2009
A state of agents? Third-party governance and implications for human services and their delivery
- Carolyn Heinrich
- Fast Focus Policy Brief
- December 2008
The School Breakfast Program and Breakfast Consumption
- Geetha M. Waehrer
- Discussion Paper
- October 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
- October 2008