This paper assesses the effectiveness of means-tested and social insurance programs in the United States. The U.S. benefit system has a major impact on poverty rates, reducing the percentage of the poor in 2004 from 29 to 13.5 percent. The system reduces poverty the most for persons with...

This report documents impacts on earnings and benefit outcomes during the third calendar year of implementation of the Social Security Administration's Benefit Offset National Demonstration (BOND). The report focuses on Stage 1, which is designed to examine how a national benefit offset would...

This project includes seven research studies to support University of New Hampshire’s Rehabilitation Research and Training Center on Employment Policy and Measurement. These This project includes studies to expand knowledge of the effects of program incentives on employment outcomes of...

Despite increased prevalence among youth with disabilities, parenthood and crime did not appear to affect education or employment outcomes any more than these factors affected the outcomes of youth without disabilities.