Search Results for "Poverty Guidelines, Research"
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Advancing Primary Prevention in Human Services: Opportunities for People with Lived Experience
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This brief highlights a new way of delivering primary prevention services that promotes equity by relying on the guidance and leadership of people with lived experience. The policy designers and service providers behind prevention services should have lived experience and/or co-create these services with people who do.
Participation in the U.S. Social Safety Net: Coverage of Low-income Families, 2018
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Participation in the social safety net varies widely across programs—from 15 percent among eligibles for subsidized child care (CCDF) to over 75 percent for Medicaid/CHIP and EITC.
Participation differs by race and ethnicity, yet patterns are not consistent. In general rates differ more across programs than between race-ethnic groups.
Meeting Substance Use and Social Service Needs in Communities of Color
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In this brief, we highlight experiences and practices from substance use treatment providers and their human services partners when serving people of color. We selected providers that focused on serving people of color, and this study was not intended to assess outcomes or effectiveness of any of the practices highlighted.
Safety Net Programs and Marginal Tax Rates: Perspectives of Working Parents
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ASPE partnered with Insight Policy Research to conduct nine focus groups in 2019 with a convenience sample of working parents with at least one child under age 13. We sought to better understand their perceptions of marginal tax rates and benefit reductions, and how these perceptions appear to influence labor force decisions.
Complex Rules and Barriers to Self-Sufficiency in Safety Net Programs: Perspectives of Working Parents
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This brief discusses the perspectives of a group of working parents on receipt of federal benefits. Based on focus groups, it examines program design and implementation, participation barriers, and factors that could help working parents more readily reach financial independence. Highlights are: