Tag: safety net
Child poverty estimates point to a record low in 2021 –...
Steven Pressman, The New School and Robert H. Scott III, Monmouth University
The U.S. government will likely report in...
Social Security benefits play key role in preventing older Americans from...
Sophie Mitra, Fordham University; Debra Brucker, University of New Hampshire, and Katie Jajtner, University of Wisconsin-Madison
The Research Brief...
Schools will stop serving free lunch to all students – a...
Marlene B. Schwartz, University of Connecticut
Public schools have been serving all students free meals since the COVID-19 pandemic...
SNAP benefits are rising for millions of Americans, thanks to a...
Tracy Roof, University of Richmond
The U.S. Department of Agriculture adjusts Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program benefits to reflect changes...
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...
EXPLORING NATURE
Oldest known cremation in Africa poses 9,500-year-old mystery about Stone Age...
Jessica C. Thompson, Yale University; Elizabeth Sawchuk, Stony Brook University (The State University of New York), and Jessica Cerezo-Román, University of Oklahoma
