This article is from the Hamilton Project and provides information on how low-wage workers can advance in the labor market. Wage inequality is constantly growing in the U.S. and low-wage workers need additional supports to help close the gap in…

This paper is from the Economic Policy Institute and provides an overview of why work supports are needed to sustain working families in the United States. Work support benefits can help low-wage workers close the gap between earnings and…

The National Center for Children in Poverty is conducting a project called Making “Work Supports” Work. The project is designed to promote policies to support low-wage workers in the workplace. Employment wages supplemented by government work…

This issue brief, authored by Mathematica Policy Research, is the sixth in a series on workers with disabilities and provides information on the Demonstration to Maintain Independence and Employment (DMIE). The DMIE is a program funded through…

This research brief is from the Institute for Research on Poverty and provides information on how the needs of children can be met while parents are working. Over the past forty years, there has been a dramatic increase in the number of mothers…

More than 650,000 prisoners are released annually in the United States. The Urban Institute conducted this four-year study to understand challenges of prisoner reentry in Cleveland, Ohio. This brief provides the results from interviews with 300…