positive average effects on employment, earnings, and income, and generally negative effects on poverty rates, although the … reform. -- Welfare reform ; Poverty ; Single mothers …

Schmidt -- Comment: Robert Topel -- Effects of Welfare Reform on Family Income -- and Poverty -- Ron Haskins -- Comment …

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 …

to address the many facets of poverty. The 4Ps is by far the largest poverty reduction and social development program the … to alleviate their immediate needs and aims to "break the intergenerational poverty cycle through investments in human …

reach a very small proportion of the households with incomes below a relative poverty line. Furthermore, the transfers are … characterized with very high non-take up and inclusion of non-entitled or non-poor recipients. Poverty rates decrease by a small … degree among benefit clients and yet, the impact is insufficient to affect overall poverty, or for the benefits to achieve …