Safety net is fraying for the very poor, By Erik Eckholm, July 4, 2009, New York Times: “Government ‘safety net’ programs like Social Security and food stamps have pulled growing numbers of Americans out of poverty since the mid-1990s. But even before the current recession, these programs were providing less help to the most desperately poor, mainly nonworking families with children, according to a new study by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a private group in Washington…”
Poverty-related issues in the news, from the Institute for Research on Poverty