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WI22-05: Social Security Interactions with Child Tax Credit Expansion
(Center for Financial Security, 2022)The American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) of 2021 significantly expands the Child Tax Credit (CTC), increasing the number of eligible children and payment amounts with advance monthly payments that began in July 2021. The expanded ... -
WI22-06: Understanding Racial and Ethnic Differences in SSA and Means-Tested Benefit Receipt and Their Anti-Poverty Effects for Children in Multigenerational Families
(Center for Financial Security, 2022)A growing share of children reside in households with caregivers, often their grandparents, who are not their biological parents or in three-generation households that include one or both of their parents as well as one ... -
WI22-07: The Geography of Long-Term Care: Implications for SSI and Understanding Disparities in Living Arrangements Among Older Adults
(Center for Financial Security, 2022)Research reveals that Black older adults are overrepresented in nursing homes and underrepresented in assisted living. It could be that community-based care facilities are more likely to locate in predominantly White areas. ... -
WI22-10: Enhancing Trust in the Social Security Administration and E-Government among People Targeted by Fraud
(Center for Financial Security, 2022)One of the insidious effects of government imposter scams is the potential erosion of trust among those who are targeted – fraud targets may learn to distrust communications and people who claim to be from the Social ... -
WI22-11: Housing for SSI Recipients: Expenditures, Quality, and Trends
(Center for Financial Security, 2022)More than half of single-person households receiving Supplemental Security Income (SSI) are severely housing cost burdened, spending more than 50 percent of their income on housing, up from 35 percent in 1985, raising ... -
WI22-12: Health, Health Insurance, and Financial Security
(Center for Financial Security, 2022)The recent rise in economic hardship highlights the need to prepare for financial emergencies. Even before the pandemic, many lacked savings for unexpected expenses, retirement, or other goals; many experienced financial ... -
WI22-13: Household Composition, Resource Use,and the Resilience of Older Adults Aging in Community During COVID-19
(Center for Financial Security, 2022)Household composition is associated with older residents’ access to resources. This research uses the pandemic period as a stress-test to detect differences in resilience between older adults who lived alone, with a partner, ... -
WI22-Q1: Economic Security of People with Disabilities During the Pandemic
(Center for Financial Security, 2022)This paper investigates the degree to which people with disabilities experienced different economic outcomes after the COVID-19 pandemic relative to people without disabilities. While the effects of the pandemic are ongoing, ... -
WI23-02: Disparities by Race and Sex in SS(D)I Applications and Awards
(Center for Financial Security, 2023)This study examines racial and gender disparities in the applications and awards of Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) programs, using administrative records from the Social ... -
WI23-04: “It’s Hard to Know What to Expect”: Parents of Children with Disabilities in Retirement
(Center for Financial Security, 2023)Income from the Social Security Administration (SSA)—through retirement, disability, and family benefits from the Old Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance (OASDI) program and payments from the Supplemental Security ... -
WI23-05: The Effect of Public Policies on Work: Disability: A Life Course Perspective
(Center for Financial Security, 2023)Our study estimates the impact of exposure to three welfare-enhancing policies—Medicaid, Food Stamps, and the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC)—throughout the life course on individuals experiencing work disability in later ... -
WI23-07: The Impacts of Racial Differences in Economic Challenges on Housing, Wealth, and Economic Security Among OASI Beneficiaries
(Center for Financial Security, 2023)Housing wealth comprises 40 percent of the net wealth of retirement-age Americans, 43 percent of whom have not yet paid of their mortgages. This report analyzes two research questions. First, we evaluate the extent to which ... -
WI23-08: COVID-19 Health Disparities and the Economic Security of Families with Children
(Center for Financial Security, 2023)The COVID-19 pandemic has disproportionately impacted low-income families and racial and ethnic minority communities. This project will use new data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) to contribute to our ... -
WI23-11: Work-Related Injuries and Older Workers: Earnings, Labor Supply, Program Participation, and Retirement
(Center for Financial Security, 2023)The majority of older workers have jobs that require some physical effort, and one-quarter experience a new disability after age 55. Roughly 25 percent of these work-limiting disabilities are incurred on the job. Work-related ... -
WI23-12: Financial Inclusion Across the United States
(Center for Financial Security, 2023)Individual and employer retirement plans (namely IRAs and 401ks) serve as important supplements to Social Security income during retirement. How widely these plans are used, and by whom, are fundamental facts needed to ... -
WI23-13: How Does the Death of a Partner During the COVID-19 Pandemic Affect the Economic Security of the Surviving Older Adult? Evidence From Credit Panel and Labor Force Participation Data
(Center for Financial Security, 2023)The death of a partner has long been recognized as a significant threat to the economic security of older adults. Older adults experienced a significant increase in unexpected deaths during the COVID-19 pandemic. This study ... -
WI23-14: Pathways into and out of Housing Insecurity and Homelessness: Relationships between Age, Public Program Use, and Housing Stability
(Center for Financial Security, 2023)Age-related health and financial changes can threaten an older adult’s housing security and result in homelessness. Becoming unhoused is especially dangerous for older adults since it impacts both their mental and physical ... -
WIDMIR ISyE691 Innovation Science
(2010-05-12)ISyE 691: Innovation Science poster presentations of WIDMIR faculty and students. Includes field notes and analysis of researcher. April 28 and May 5, 2010 -
WIDMIR Lab Memos Clark Center Janelia Farm - Benchmarking Materials
(2007)The materials in this binder consist of benchmarking reports and evaluations of the Clark Center at Stanford and Janelia Farms at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute in Maryland. These institutions were among those that ... -
WIDMIR News Media Articles 2004
(2004)The news media articles pertain to the early development of the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery and are dated to the year 2004. Keywords include: state stimulus; research; technology; Jim Doyle; Carl Gulbrandsen.