Resources
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A New Model for Integrating Housing and Services: Brief 2
This brief looks at the implementation and success of the Chicago Family Case Management Demonstration, which included a variety of wrap around services to newly housed individuals. Abstract The Chicago...
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Youth Count! Process Study
Homelessness among unaccompanied youth is a hidden problem: the number of young people who experience homelessness each year is largely unknown. To improve the national response to youth homelessness, policymakers...
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Do Child Characteristics Affect How Children Fare in Families Receiving and Leaving Welfare?
Previous research using the 1999 National Survey of America’s Families (NSAF) found few differences in developmental risk between children in families who were currently receiving welfare and those in families...
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Families Coping Without Earnings or Government Cash Assistance
This study is based on qualitative interviews with 95 extremely poor families (cash income below 50 percent of the federal poverty level) living without employment income or government cash assistance....
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Social Policy and the Tax System
PREFACE To sort out the pros and cons of using the tax system to enact social policy goals, in particular to help low-income families, the Urban Institute convened a tax...