Eligibility and benefits for anti-poverty income transfers in the U.S. are based on both the means and the household … arrangement, and marital status. We find that the U.S. anti-poverty policy distorts the cohabitation/marriage decision of single … current design of anti-poverty income programs, and that the introduction of an EITC deduction on the earnings of secondary …

and the prevalence of in-work poverty. We compare two relative measures of in-work poverty: The individual definition … show a positive relationship between involuntary part-time work and in-work poverty according to the household definition …

although the poverty rate for elderly Americans has declined over the past three decades, the total number of persons in … poverty has grown and the number of poor nonelderly adults in poverty has nearly doubled since 1970. The authors argue for a … itself is an ideal solution to the wage poverty problem, but the two programs complement one another. What makes the two fit …

the current environment of stagnating wages, increasing income instability, and rising adult poverty. The War on Poverty … has succeeded in reducing the poverty rate for elderly Americans from 30 percent to 10.5 percent over the past three ….1 percent twenty-five years ago. With the overall growth in the number of persons in poverty in the United States from 25 …