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These briefs are short and informative analyses of our research relating to poverty policies. Policy Briefs deliver our cutting-edge research directly to policy makers, researchers, and stakeholders in an accessible format. 

April 22, 2013 Article

The Supplemental Poverty Measure: A Better Measure for Poverty in America?
By Anupama Jacob, 2012 Visiting Graduate Student Scholar

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In 2012, the U.S. Census Bureau reported that around 46 million or one in seven residents lived in poverty.  However, the very term “poverty” continues to evoke debates on what it means to be poor. 

Ideological, political, and methodological tensions make it extremely challenging to reach a consensus on the most appropriate way to measure poverty in a given society. So how do we distinguish between the poor and the non-poor?

April 22, 2013 Research Paper

The Great Recession and Greater Disparities in Employment and Earnings
By Hilary Hoynes, Douglas Miller, and Jessamyn Schaller

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In the recent recession, unemployment nearly doubled to 9.5 percent by mid-2009.  This figure is powerful in and of itself, but does not tell the whole story.

April 22, 2013 Research Paper

Transitions Into & Out of Poverty in the United States
By Ann Huff Stevens, Director, Center for Poverty Research

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April 1, 2013 Research Paper

Policy Brief: State Health Insurance Policy and Insuring Immigrant Children
By Erin R. Hamilton and Ethan Evans

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One in five children in the United States is the child of immigrants. These new Americans, most of whom are U.S. citizens, are more than twice as likely as children of natives to have no health insurance. Prior research has shown that differences in income or employment between native and immigrant parents do not account for the disparity in coverage.

April 1, 2013 Research Paper

Policy Brief: U.S. Farms and the Dwindling Labor Supply from Mexico
By J. Edward Taylor and Diane Charlton

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For an extended period now, U.S. farms have enjoyed an abundance of workers from Mexico who work for stable or decreasing real wages. However, since 2008 the overall number of these farm workers, both these working in the U.S. and those who remain in Mexico, has shrunk substantially.

April 1, 2013 Research Paper

Policy Brief: Immigrant Workers, Native Poverty and Labor Market Competition
By Giovanni Peri

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Those who come to the United States looking for work compete with some groups of native-born workers but complement others. Since wages and the local poverty rate play a part in how many arrive, it is a challenge to quantify the effect they in turn have on both, and whether they push native workers below the poverty line.

February 6, 2013 Research Paper

Policy Brief: Linking EITC Income to Real Health Outcomes
By Hilary W. Hoynes, Douglas L. Miller, and David Simon

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February 6, 2013 Sign-up for E-News Hilary Hoynes Douglas Miller Read: Income, the EITC, & Infant Health Read More Policy Briefs

Linking income and health has been a notorious challenge for researchers. With multiple sources of income such as earnings, cash transfer and near cash transfer programs, it is difficult to isolate their effects on health. The 1993 expansion to the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC), the largest and most recent of federal expansions to date, provided researchers a unique opportunity.

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