Topic Poverty

Family income for those at the bottom of the U.S. economic distribution have barely budged over the past several decades, while those at the top have skyrocketed. Twelve percent of Americans live in poverty today, including nearly 10 million children. Equitable Growth is growing the evidence base for how rising inequality affects the economic wellbeing of those at the bottom of the economic ladder in order to support the creation of policies that provide both a safety net and a springboard to opportunity for the most disadvantaged among us.

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The economic impact of housing insecurity in the United States

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In Conversation

In Conversation with Mark Rank

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Income support programs boost earnings for low-wage workers by reducing household poverty in the United States

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Disaggregating Growth

Newly released U.S. poverty statistics show that recent economic growth is not broadly shared

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We can cut child poverty in the United States in half in 10 years

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As the U.S. rural economy changes, social safety net programs buoy rural residents above the poverty line

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Request for Proposals: How effective was the fiscal response to the COVID-19 recession for workers?

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Request for proposals: Research grants for early career scholars

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The Effect of Means-Tested Transfers on Work: Evidence from Quasi-Randomly Assigned SNAP Caseworkers

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Long Term Own and Dynamic Complementarity Effects of the WIC Program

Inequality & MobilityFamilies
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Does guaranteed income facilitate wealth and credit building among Black households in Georgia?

Inequality & MobilityFamilies
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The effects of the expanded Child Tax Credit on low-income families in the United States

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Short-term effects of the expanded Child Tax Credit on U.S. labor force participation amid the COVID-19 pandemic

Inequality & MobilityFamiliesTax & Macroeconomics
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The Short-Term Labor Supply Response to the Expanded Child Tax Credit

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Food assistance can disrupt intergenerational poverty in the United States, promoting racial economic equity

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The Effectiveness of the Food Stamp Program at Reducing Differences in the Intergenerational Persistence of Poverty

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Data infrastructure and tribal sovereignty can help break down barriers for Native Americans to build wealth

Inequality & Mobility
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Beauty products for women of color and femme-identifying people of color perpetuate U.S. health and other socioeconomic inequalities

Inequality & Mobility
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