Melissa Kearney | Econofact

Coronavirus

COVID-19 Social Insurance Payments to U.S. Households

March 26, 2020

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The Issue:

The United States government is gearing up to issue immediate direct payments to individuals to provide a financial lifeline at this time of income loss due to business closures and reduced demand for work and services. Such payments would provide an important measure

Social Policy

Widening Socioeconomic Differences in Children’s Family Structure

June 17, 2019

The Issue:

There has been a substantial decline in the share of children in the U.S. living with married parents over recent decades. Importantly, this decline has not been made up for with a rise in the share of children living with unmarried parents; rather, many more children today live with a lone parent than

Social Policy

Welfare and the Federal Budget

July 25, 2017

The Issue:

As the Trump administration has been preparing a federal budget and Congress has been talking about tax reform, there has been much attention to the federal budget and federal government spending priorities. One notion that has surfaced in the surrounding political discourse is that the federal government ...
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