Scholars emphasize that poverty in Britain has risen sharply since the late 1970s. Meanwhile in the United States, both … official figures and traditional poverty scholars report sharp declines in poverty. We seek to provide a comparison of poverty …, or policy-account for the observed changes in poverty in the two nations and what role could policy play in reducing …

In this paper, we comprehensively examine the effects of the Great Recession on child poverty, with particular … panel data model and data for 2000 to 2014, we estimate the relationship between the business cycle and child poverty, and … that the safety net provides protection; that is, the cyclicality of after-tax-and-transfer child poverty is significantly …

-run effects of the EITC are to increase employment and to reduce poverty and public assistance, as long as we rely on national as … well as state variation in EITC policy. Second, tighter welfare time limits also reduce poverty and public assistance in … on poverty is more likely behavioral. It is harder to draw firm conclusions about minimum wages and welfare benefits …

, but on net reduce urban poverty. Second, we expand the analysis of distributional effects beyond looking just at the … poverty threshold. We do not find that living wages increase the depth of poverty among families that remain poor, and we find … that families somewhat below and somewhat above the poverty line are also helped by living wages. Finally, we suggest that …

matched March CPS surveys, focusing on the effectiveness of minimum wages in reducing poverty. The results show that over a … one-to-two year period, minimum wages increase both the probability that poor families escape poverty and the probability … that previously non-poor families fall into poverty. The estimated increase in the number of non-poor families that fall …

offset the cost of health care live in families with incomes twice the poverty line or more and, depending on how coverage is …

This paper considers the long-run patterns of poverty in the United States from the early 1960s to 2010. Our results … contradict previous studies that have argued that poverty has shown little improvement over time or that anti-poverty efforts … have been ineffective. We find that moving from traditional income-based measures of poverty to a consumption-based measure …