“Using the Supplemental Poverty Measure to Understand the Impact of Safety Net Programs and to Model Policy Changes”
Beth Mattingly
University of New Hampshire
Monday, May 14th
12:30 pm – 1:30 pm
Q&A until 2:00 pm
Social Work Building
Room 305A
ABSTRACT: In this talk, I will discuss the importance of the Supplemental Poverty Measure (SPM) as a tool for understanding who is poor, and also for illustrating the poverty amelioration and alleviation work done by key safety net programs including refundable tax credits (Earned Income Tax Credit and Child Tax Credit), the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly food stamps), Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF), and Social Security. I will then discuss my own research that addresses how policy changes have impacted poverty in California and how alternative safety net specifications would affect poor populations. This work looks beyond simply who is moved out of poverty but also at distributional impacts of safety net programs as well as reductions in poverty gaps.
The WCPC is a member of the US Collaborative of Poverty Centers, led by the Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and funded by the US Department of Health and Human Services, Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation. In addition to core funding from the UW School of Social Work, WCPC activities have also been supported by the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation, the Seattle Foundation, WSECU, the Marguerite Casey Foundation, United Way of King County, and the Housing Development Consortium.
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