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.
Wisconsin Poverty Report Update: Why isn’t the Economy Doing More to Reduce Poverty in Wisconsin?
- Timothy Smeeding
- Webinar
- July 17 2019
Damon Jones on Whether a Modest Basic Income Might Lead People to Work Less
- Damon Jones
- Podcasts
- July 2019
Is Retirement Planning Possible for Low-income Families?
- J. Michael Collins
- Webinar
- May 22 2019
Cutting the Child Poverty Rate by Half: A Report from the National Academies
- Hilary Hoynes and Robert Moffitt
- Webinar
- May 15 2019
Key Questions in U.S. Disability Policy
- Manasi Deshpande
- Webinar
- December 5 2018
Moving into and out of rural poverty
- José D. Pacas and Elizabeth E. Davis
- Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
- December 2018
Rural-urban disparity in poverty persistence
- Iryna Kyzyma
- Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
- December 2018
Child poverty in rural America
- David Rothwell and Brian C. Thiede
- Focus on Poverty & Classroom Supplement
- December 2018
Jacob Bastian on the Real Costs of the EITC
- Jacob Bastian
- Podcasts
- November 2018
Work Requirements in the Safety Net and the Challenges of Implementation
- Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach and Ron Haskins
- Webinar
- October 31 2018