Homelessness is arguably the most extreme hardship associated with poverty in the United States, yet people … experiencing homelessness are excluded from official poverty statistics and much of the extreme poverty literature. This paper … population, including the first national estimates of income, employment, and safety net participation based on administrative …

A new wave of social service programs aims to build a pathway out of poverty by helping clients define their own goals … percentage points higher employment rates after one year compared with a control group offered only help with an immediate need … services affect areas beyond employment, even when other areas of life are participants' primary goals. We find some evidence …

0.25 years of schooling at age 28-30. The effects on employment and earnings were initially negative, coinciding with a …

We document that nearly half of the global decline in agricultural employment during the 20th-century was driven by new … decline accounts, at fixed prices, for 40% of the decrease in agricultural employment. This aggregate effect is roughly halved …