welfare reform

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Herd argues administrative barriers to welfare programs are promoting poverty

Oct 27, 2024 Vox

Vox network recently spoke with the Ford School's Pamela Herd on current barriers in the distribution system of social welfare programs. Herd testified, “We have a huge array of different programs with the primary goal of reducing poverty and...

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Shaefer breaks down impact of expanded Child Tax Credit

Jul 11, 2021 The Detroit News

Government officials are currently trying to spread the word about the recently expanded Child Tax Credit program so that it can reach the maximum number of eligible people. Luke Shaefer, associate dean for research and policy engagement and...

Luke Shaefer, Hermann and Amalie Kohn Professor of Social Justice and Social Policy

Luke Shaefer proposal for Universal Child Allowance influences Senate tax proposal

Nov 9, 2017

On June 21, a proposal by Christopher Wimer (Columbia University), Jane Waldfogel (Columbia University), and the Ford School’s Luke Shaefer – “A Universal Child Allowance to Combat Child Poverty” – was published in Spotlight On Poverty, a...

The Economist cites $2.00 a Day in the article, “Poverty in America: No money no love”

Aug 19, 2016

The Economist cites $2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America, in the story “Poverty in America: No money no love,” which calls on today’s Presidential candidates to address endemic poverty.$2.00 a Day, a recently released book by Luke...

State & Hill

Welfare Reform Redux: Luke Shaefer on the rise of extreme poverty, the influence of $2.00 a Day, and what comes next

Apr 23, 2016

On Tuesday, September 1, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt published $2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America. Written by Luke Shaefer and Kathryn Edin, the book movingly documents the troubling rise of extreme poverty in the wake of America’s 1996...

Luke Shaefer delivers testimony before the U.S. Senate Finance Committee

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The Atlantic interviews Luke Shaefer for story on the false promise of welfare reform

Apr 4, 2016

In a recent Atlantic article, “The End of Welfare as We Know It,” author Alana Semuels explores the state of the welfare system today, focusing in on Arkansas in the years following President Bill Clinton’s 1996 reforms. Semuels argues that the...

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Shaefer promotes job stability as a key solution to poverty in SSIR op-ed

Jan 25, 2016

In "Precarious Work and the Employment-based Safety Net," an op-ed for the Stanford Social Innovation Review (SSIR), Luke Shaefer argues that our current employment-based welfare system overlooks the fact that the poorest Americans can only secure...

"From welfare to a work-based safety net: An incomplete transition" published by JPAM

Nov 6, 2015

A research study by Sandra K. Danziger, Sheldon Danziger, Kristin S. Seefeldt, and Luke Shaefer, "From welfare to a work‐based safety net: An incomplete transition," was published in the November 2015 edition of the Journal of Policy Analysis and...

Increasing work opportunities, reducing poverty two decades after Welfare Reform

Nov 6, 2015

A research article by Sandra K. Danziger, Sheldon Danziger, Kristin S. Seefeldt, and Luke Shaefer, "Increasing work opportunities and reducing poverty two decades after Welfare Reform," was published in the November 2015 edition of the Journal of...

Ebonya Washington: First of the month: Grocers, shoppers and purchasing power

Sep 27, 2010 1:11:33

Ebonya Washington discusses how the purchases of welfare benefit recipients vary across the month and differ from the food choices of non-benefit recipients as well as store pricing patterns. September, 2010.

Kristin Seefeldt: Working after welfare reform

Feb 11, 2009 1:30:03

Kristin Seefeldt, speaks about her book "Working after Welfare: How Women Balance Jobs and Family in the Wake of Welfare Reform." February, 2009.

Ron Haskins: Inside story of the 1996 welfare reform law

Jan 31, 2007 1:09:24

Ron Haskins in his lecture titled, "Work Over Welfare: The Inside Story of the 1996 Welfare Reform Law" discusses the 1996 Welfare Reform Law. January, 2007.