Tag: safety net
US families with kids are getting monthly payments from the government:...
Emily Schwartz Greco, The Conversation
Most U.S. families with children will get six monthly payments from the government in...
82% of Americans want paid maternity leave – making it as...
Chris Knoester, The Ohio State University and Richard J. Petts, Ball State University
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How lifting children out of poverty today will help them tomorrow
Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach, Northwestern University; Hilary Hoynes, University of California, Berkeley, and Melissa S. Kearney, University of Maryland
As...
An advantage of the government’s new payments for families: Not humiliating...
Wendy Bach, University of Tennessee
The US$1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package President Joe Biden signed in March 2021 will...
Biden administration’s $39 billion child care strategy: 5 questions answered
Taryn Morrissey, American University School of Public Affairs
States are getting US$39 billion from the federal government to support...
Child poverty in the U.S. could be slashed by monthly payments...
Joya Misra, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Which former president pitched a Family Assistance Plan to the American people that...
I interviewed 48 bankrupt Americans – here’s who they blame for...
Tess Wise, Amherst College
The people arrested in connection with the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection had an 18% bankruptcy...
Being convicted of a crime has thousands of consequences besides incarceration...
Cynthia A. Golembeski, Rutgers University Newark
At least 77 million U.S. adults have criminal records, including nearly 7 million currently in prison or jail...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
