Tag: Welfare
Work requirements don’t work for domestic violence survivors – but Michigan...
Kristina Nikolova, Wayne State University and Andrea Hetling, Rutgers University
The Research Brief is a short take about interesting...
Austerity has its own life – here’s how it lives on...
Sarah Marie Hall, University of Manchester
Austerity in the UK is here to stay. The Bank of England has...
Why cash payments aren’t always the best tool to help poor...
Heath Henderson, Drake University
The concept is simple and seductive: Give people cash, lift them out of poverty. It’s...
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...
Why are some Americans changing their names?
Kirsten Fermaglich, Michigan State University
In 2008, Newsweek published an article on then-presidential candidate Barack Obama titled “From Barry to Barack.”
The story explained how Obama’s...
Why universal basic income costs far less than you think
Elizaveta Fouksman, University of Oxford
Want to get rid of poverty, lessen inequality and provide financial stability in a world of precarious work? Well, why...
Social Security’s future is safe
Christian Weller, University of Massachusetts Boston
Social Security is the bedrock of Americans’ retirement income security. So you may have been concerned by the news...
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...
