, including welfare participation, labor market involvement, earnings, income and poverty, and family formation. While no single … family earnings. The result was a rise in total family income and a decline in poverty. The gains from the 1996 reforms were …

This paper reviews the current policies for fighting poverty and explores the impact they have had. We begin by … reviewing trends in poverty, poverty spending and economic performance. It is immediately apparent that economic performance is … the dominant determinant of the measured poverty rate over the past two decades. Government assistance programs expanded …

place and compare them to the poverty line, manufacturing earnings and benefits, state per capita incomes in the US, as well …

Many studies examine the anti-poverty effects of social insurance and means-tested transfers, relying solely on survey … Program Participation data. Using the linked data, we find that Social Security cuts the poverty rate by a third - more than … effective. All programs except for the EITC sharply reduce deep poverty (below 50% of the poverty line), while the impact of the …

build sustainable income for those in extreme poverty. We focus on two important questions: whether a mere grant of …

to poorest. When poverty is defined using per-capita expenditure and the common PPP$2 per day threshold, we find that … poverty: the results of community-based methods are more correlated with how individual community members rank each other and …