In addition to studying poverty trends, our research also focuses on future advances in how poverty is measured. We explore ways in which the Supplemental Poverty Measure (SPM) might be able to better capture health needs and health insurance coverage or needs and expenses such as child care and housing moving forward. We also identify the role that policy currently plays at important points in the life course, such as the birth of a child, and how advances in how we measure the impact of changing circumstances and changing policy can continue to advance our understanding of household well-being.
2023
- Experiences of poverty around the time of a birth: A research note, Demography—Aug 2023
2022
- Poverty after birth: How mothers experience and navigate U.S. safety net programs to address family needs, Journal of Child and Family Studies—May 2022
2019
- State of the Union Millennial Dilemma: Poverty and the safety net, Pathways, Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality—Sept 2019
- The antipoverty impacts of Medicaid are growing with state expansions and with time, Health Affairs—Jan 2019
2018
- Poor state, Rich state: Understanding the variability of poverty rates across U.S. states, Sociological Science—Oct 2018
2011
- Improving the measurement of poverty, Social Service Review—Mar 2011
2024
- 2023 poverty rates in historical perspective—Sept 2024
- The role of government transfers in the child poverty gap by race and ethnicity: A focus on Black, Latino, and White children, with Institute for Child, Youth and Family Policy, Brandeis University—Apr 2024
2022
- A step in the right direction: The expanded Child Tax Credit would move the United States’ high child poverty rate closer to peer nations, with UNICEF Innocenti, Global Office of Research and Foresight—Oct 2022
- Keeping up with inflation: How policy indexation can enhance poverty reduction, with The Century Foundation—Aug 2022
- Monthly cash payments reduce spells of poverty across the year—May 2022
- The role of government transfers in the Black-White Child poverty gap—Mar 2022
2020
2019
- The costs of being poor: Inflation inequality leads to three million more people in poverty, with The Groundwork Collaborative—Nov 2019
2018