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COVID-19 and the U.S. Social Safety Net
(2020-09-06)
We examine trends in employment, earnings, and incomes over the last two decades in the United States, and how the safety net has responded to changing fortunes, including the shutdown of the economy in response to the ...
The Effect of the COVID-19 Pandemic Recession on Less Educated Women's Human Capital: Some Projectsion
(2022-11-08)
The recession induced by the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in major declines in employment of women, both from the demand side as firms reduced employment and from the supply side resulting from school closures and the closing ...
The Supplemental Expenditure Poverty Measure: A New Method for Measuring Poverty
(2022-05-10)
We propose a new measure of the rate of poverty we call the Supplemental Expenditure Poverty Measure (SEPM) based on expenditure in the Consumer Expenditure survey. It treats household expenditure as a measure of resources ...
The Return to Work in Disablity Programs: What Has Been Learned and Next Steps
(Social Security Administration, 2022-01-24)
We review a number of demonstrations conducted by the Social Security
Administration which have attempted to improve labor market outcomes for disabled worker
beneficiaries of the Social Security Disability Insurance ...
Take-up of Social Benefits
(2022-06-06)
Take-up of a social benefit is usually defined as receiving a benefit for which an individual or household is eligible. The take-up rate is the fraction of those eligible for a program who participate and receive a benefit ...