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Evaluating The Performance Of The U.S. Social Safety Net In The Great Recession, Keith Gunnar Bentele
Evaluating The Performance Of The U.S. Social Safety Net In The Great Recession, Keith Gunnar Bentele
Center for Social Policy Publications
The following provides an assessment of the performance of both individual safety net programs and the cumulative impact of all safety net benefits and tax credits on household incomes in the early years during and following the 2007-09 recession. Specifically, I examine the extent to which various benefits and tax credits have moderated the impact of earnings losses for households in different positions in the income distribution, with special attention to the experiences of low-income households. In addition, I examine whether these moderating impacts differ for households of various racial/ethnic compositions, female-headed households, and residents of states with more and …