Since the early 1970s, the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation
(ASPE) has used the Transfer Income Model (TRIM) to assess how social welfare programs …

The minimum wage establishes a lower bound on what employers must pay their workers.
The federal minimum wage is currently set at $7.25 an hour, but 22 states and the District of …

A large portion of US children live in poverty—22 percent according to the official measure,
and 18 percent according to the Census Bureau's Supplemental Poverty Measure (SPM) …

This article estimates trends in the poverty rates in Wisconsin for the overall population, for
children, and for the elderly between 2008 and 2010, using an alternative poverty measure …

To better understand poverty and find the best strategies to reduce it, states and localities
need to know who is poor, why they are poor, and what policies work best for different …

One in five residents of New York City lives in poverty. According to the US Census Bureau,
across the years 2008 to 2012, an average of 19.9 percent of city residents were poor under …

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Joint Eligibility and Participation Page 1 CENTER ON LABOR, HUMAN SERVICES, AND
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2 overcome the obstacles that living in poverty creates. Their success should be celebrated
and emulated. But we must do more than celebrate those who beat the odds; we need to …