Kathryn Edin, H. Luke Shaefer, and Laura Tach propose a radical idea: America’s anti-poverty policy should serve to incorporate, rather than separate, the poor from the rest of society.
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The Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) offers a way to support lower-income families without generating stigma.
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These findings suggest that although children in grandfamilies may be at a disadvantage academically and socioemotionally, grandparent caregivers are in many ways similar to other fragile-family mothers.
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Has income insecurity increased among U.S. children with the emergence of an employment-based safety net and the polarization of labor markets and family structure?
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The Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) offers tangible and emotional benefits for lower-income Americans.
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It’s Not Like I’m Poor examines the costs and benefits of the new work-based safety net, suggesting ways to augment its strengths so that more of the working poor can realize the promise of a middle-class life.
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This article reviews the literature on grandparent coresidence and presents new research on children coresiding with grandparents in modern families.
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We discuss the implications of our results for the well-being of nonmarital children and the quality of nonmarital relationships faced with high levels of relationship instability and multiple-partner fertility.
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