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Making Work Pay Enough: A Decent Standard of Living for Working Families (Series/New Safety Net)
Author(s): Gregory Acs, Margery Austin TurnerPosted to Web: July 16, 2008

One-third of America's families with children are low income, meaning their incomes fall below twice the federal poverty level. Although four in five of these families work, many don't bring home enough to cover the everyday costs of living. In this essay, Acs and Turner outline their proposals to enhance low-income families' purchasing power and reduce unusually high housing costs through a package of reforms and policy initiatives that tackle both the income side and expenditure side of family budgets.

Publication Date: July 16, 2008Availability: HTML | PDF

Making Work Pay Enough - Summary (Series/New Safety Net)
Author(s): Gregory Acs, Margery Austin TurnerPosted to Web: July 16, 2008

One-third of America's families with children are low income, meaning their incomes fall below twice the federal poverty level. Although four in five of these families work, many don't bring home enough to cover the everyday costs of living. In this essay, Acs and Turner outline their proposals to enhance low-income families' purchasing power and reduce unusually high housing costs through a package of reforms and policy initiatives that tackle both the income side and expenditure side of family budgets.

Publication Date: July 16, 2008Availability: HTML | PDF

Review of "Making Work Pay Enough" (Series/New Safety Net)
Author(s): Jared BernsteinPosted to Web: July 16, 2008

This paper is a response to New Safety Net Paper 1, "Making Work Pay Enough: A Decent Standard of Living for Working Families" by Gregory Acs and Margery Austin Turner.

Publication Date: July 16, 2008Availability: HTML | PDF

Using the Housing We Have (Series/New Safety Net)
Author(s): John WeicherPosted to Web: July 16, 2008

This paper is a response to New Safety Net Paper 1, "Making Work Pay Enough: A Decent Standard of Living for Working Families" by Gregory Acs and Margery Austin Turner.

Publication Date: July 16, 2008Availability: HTML | PDF

What It Will Take to End Homelessness in D.C. (Commentary)
Author(s): Martha R. Burt, Sam HallPosted to Web: July 14, 2008

In this commentary for The Washington Post, researchers Martha Burt and Sam Hall recommend, among other things, that Washington, D.C., offer permanent supportive housing to those who have been homeless the longest or have the most severe forms of disability. Making major changes in its data system would help the city have real-time information regarding homeless people.

Publication Date: July 14, 2008Availability: HTML

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