TANF potentially serves as a portal for a wide array of programs that provide cash income support, in-kind nutrition and housing assistance, tax credits, and other services to families with low-incomes. This research brief summarizes what we know…

Using a panel of 4,500 children matched to their mothers from National Longitudinal Survey of Youth datasets, authors analyze the impact of a family’s income on child achievement to understand possible causal effects an increase in family income…

The Brookings Institution authored this brief on the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) since the inception of the “EITC Movement” ten years ago. Authors review the past accomplishments of the EITC Movement and discuss how the Movement will continue…

Work supports such as the Earned Income Tax Credit, child care subsidies, and public health insurance can often help low-income working families reach self-sufficiency. Using the National Center for Children in Poverty’s Family Resource Simulator…

The Metropolitan Policy Program at Brookings recently released a report that compared the change in geographic distribution of the low-income population to trends of the federal Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) recipients’ location. The data used…

On January 26th, 2011, at 2:00 pm Eastern, Peer TA hosted a Webinar on TANF and EITC: Creating Additional Opportunities for ARRA Funded Subsidized Employment Participants. Although ARRA funding has ceased, State and local TANF agencies have an…