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 …

, 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 …

In recent years, the psychological causes and consequences of poverty have received renewed attention from scientists …-dollar terms. We conclude by discussing whether a psychological poverty trap is plausible …