Families in poverty face numerous barriers to establishing stable economic footing. This paper examines the effect of a …

that both Black and Hispanic households made remarkable progress in terms of mean and median retirement income, poverty … projected poverty rate rising, and the projected replacement rate falling, though expected mean retirement income does rise …. Hispanics also experienced a setback in mean retirement income but continued progress in replacement rates and reducing poverty …

- since the 1960s, and divergence over longer periods. This stylized fact spurred several developments in growth theory …, including AK models, poverty trap models, and the concept of convergence conditional on determinants of steady-state income. We … convergence since 1990 and convergence since 2000, driven by both faster catch-up growth and slower growth of the frontier. During …

, optimal decisions made before payday may no longer be optimal afterward, which could reinforce poverty. By exploiting Social …

Official poverty statistics and even the extreme poverty literature largely ignore people experiencing homelessness. In … people, this paper contributes to efforts to better incorporate this hard-to-survey population into income and poverty …

This paper examines the intergenerational effects of the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) on poverty and public … assistance in adulthood (WIC and other public assistance) and reduces the likelihood of being in poverty (<100% of poverty) or … near poor (<200% of poverty) by about 7 percentage points. These findings build on a growing literature that considers the …

The Poor People's Campaign (PPC) of 1968 was focused on highlighting, and ultimately reducing, poverty in the United …