The Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) supports millions of single parents and their children each year. Though the majority of EITC recipients are single mothers, many single fathers receive this benefit as well. In 2014, 4.2 million single fathers…

Child welfare practitioners require effective tools to gauge children’s immediate safety and risk of future maltreatment. This brief from the Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation provides information about child safety and risk assessments in…

Recent studies have begun to show that inhibited brain development and functioning in children raised in poverty may be an important explanatory factor behind the relationship often seen between growing up in poverty and lower educational attainment…

This Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation brief examines the well-being of adolescents who had recently experienced homelessness with their families. The brief uses data from the Family Options Study to explore the housing situations,…

Under Federal law, able-bodied adults without dependents (ABAWDs) may only receive SNAP benefits for 3 months in a three-year period unless they meet work or training requirements. Until recently, almost every State had chosen to use a temporary…