Harvard Kennedy School Professor Randall Akee explores the concept of a Universal Basic Income, summarizing literature which shows that children whose families received cash transfers were more likely to complete high school on time, have higher educational attainment by age 21, show reduced depression and anxiety in adolescence and adulthood, and have better economic outcomes than children whose families did not.
Many working parents in the United States are employed in jobs that expose them to challenging working conditions, including low wages, limited benefits, and unstable and unpredictable work schedules.
Stigma features prominently in debates about the social safety net, but empirically disentangling its role has left open many questions about whether it is a meaningful—or movable—barrier to take-up.
This chapter adopts a historically informed institution of racial domination framework to interpret trends in racial disparities in punishment, drawing from recent empirical and theoretical developmen
Current policy debate often assumes that large employers offer health insurance to their workers.
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