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Refundable tax credit for low-to-middle class individuals in the U.S.
The CARES Act (March 2020) and the American Rescue Plan (ARP, March 2021) each combined large direct household payments with substantial assistance to state and local governments and major loan progra...
The HHS poverty guidelines are the administrative “Federal Poverty Level” figures that agencies use to determine eligibility for many means-tested programs — most prominently Medicaid and the Children...
Higher shares of household resources coming from government assistance are associated with large reductions in measured poverty but have mixed relationships with employment: some programs are explicit...