Socioeconomic Well-Being – AAPSS

Confronting Poverty: Measuring Its Causes, Costs, and Consequences

December 20, 2024| | AAPSS Editor

Conceived as a tribute to the accomplishments of Rebecca M. “Becky” Blank (1955–2023), this volume... Read More → Confronting Poverty: Measuring Its Causes, Costs, and Consequences

Evaluating the Effects of the 2021 Expansion of the Child Tax Credit

September 10, 2024| | AAPSS Editor

The American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 temporarily transformed the Child Tax Credit (CTC) into a more generous... Read More → Evaluating the Effects of the 2021 Expansion of the Child Tax Credit

Overlapping Public Investments in Child Well-Being: A Reconsideration of the Social Safety Net

February 21, 2024| | AAPSS Editor

American public benefit provision bears little resemblance to a safety net capable of preventing people from... Read More → Overlapping Public Investments in Child Well-Being: A Reconsideration of the Social Safety Net

The New Rural-Urban Interface

November 1, 2023| | AAPSS Editor

For decades, rural and small-town America has been left at the sidelines of academic analysis and... Read More → The New Rural-Urban Interface

Entitlement Reform

November 1, 2023| | AAPSS Editor

The effectiveness of the U.S. social safety net continues to be an important national issue. Societal changes... Read More → Entitlement Reform

Do Networks Help People to Manage Poverty? Perspectives from the Field

October 31, 2023| | AAPSS Editor

Social support networks can provide much-needed emotional, material, and financial help for people living in... Read More → Do Networks Help People to Manage Poverty? Perspectives from the Field

Toward a Better Approach to Preventing, Identifying, and Addressing Child Maltreatment

October 31, 2023| | AAPSS Editor

In volume 692 of The ANNALS, special editors Lawrence M. Berger and Kristen S. Slack bring together scholars... Read More → Toward a Better Approach to Preventing, Identifying, and Addressing Child Maltreatment

The Dynamics of Homelessness: Research and Policy

October 31, 2023| | AAPSS Editor

In The ANNALS volume 693, “The Dynamics of Homelessness: Research and Policy,” special editors Barrett A.... Read More → The Dynamics of Homelessness: Research and Policy

What Has Happened to the American Working Class since the Great Recession?

October 31, 2023| | AAPSS Editor

Dramatic macroeconomic events have marked the first 21 years of the twenty-first century. The Great Recession... Read More → What Has Happened to the American Working Class since the Great Recession?

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