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 ...

From 2009 to 2016, SSI caseloads increased by 9%, with 4.8 million prime-aged recipients in 2016. Over the same time period, TANF caseloads declined by 11%, reaching 1.5 million in 2016. Both programs provide cash-assistance ...

The growing number of individuals suffering from a serious mental illness underscores the important role of interventions such as treatments, policies, and programs to support those in need. Such support efforts often ...

This project seeks to understand what types of counties have a brick-and-mortar local Public Housing Authority (PHA). Since there are more people eligible for housing assistance than there are benefits available, allocations ...

Supplemental Security Income (SSI) and Housing Choice Vouchers (HCVs) both play an important role in the assistance offered to low-income households with disabilities, but the interaction of these programs is largely ...

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, ...