Policy Points Social policies might not only improve economic well‐being, but also health.
Health policy experts have therefore advocated for investments in social policies both to …

Background Lone parents in high‐income countries have high rates of poverty (including in‐
work poverty) and poor health. Employment requirements for these parents are increasingly …

When New Labour came to power in 1997, its leaders asked for it to be judged after ten
years on its success in making Britain'a more equal society'. As it approaches the end of an …

Targeted toward low-income families in six high-poverty New York City communities,
Opportunity NYC-Family Rewards offers cash payments tied to efforts and achievements in …

Opportunity NYC-Family Rewards, an experimental, privately funded, conditional cash
transfer (CCT) program to help families break the cycle of poverty, was the first …

This book documents the first five years of life of the children of the influential Millennium
Cohort Study, which is tracking almost 19,000 babies born in 2000 and 2001 in England …

Lone parents and their children are the biggest group at risk of living in poverty in Ireland,
and activation is regarded as the solution to this problem by policymakers. While workfare …

The budget for the US Department of Labor for Fiscal Year 2010 includes a total of $45
million to support and study transitional jobs. This paper describes the origins of the …

Family Rewards was an innovative approach to poverty reduction in the United States that
was modeled on the conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs common in lower-and middle …

Internationally, traditional approaches to social assistance (welfare) have increasingly been
replaced with 'active'labour market policies. Alongside other industrialised countries …