Table of Contents

• • Anti-poverty Policy Innovations: New Proposals for Addressing Poverty in the United States

    Lawrence M. Berger, Maria Cancian and Katherine Magnuson

    • RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences February 2018, 4 (2) 1-19;
    • DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2018.4.2.01

I. Tax and Transfer Programs

• • A Universal Child Allowance: A Plan to Reduce Poverty and Income Instability Among Children in the United States

    H. Luke Shaefer, Sophie Collyer, Greg Duncan, Kathryn Edin, Irwin Garfinkel, David Harris, Timothy M. Smeeding, Jane Waldfogel, Christopher Wimer and Hirokazu Yoshikawa

    • RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences February 2018, 4 (2) 22-42;
    • DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2018.4.2.02
  • Cash for Kids

    Marianne P. Bitler, Annie Laurie Hines and Marianne Page

    • RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences February 2018, 4 (2) 43-73;
    • DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2018.4.2.03
  • A Targeted Minimum Benefit Plan: A New Proposal to Reduce Poverty Among Older Social Security Recipients A Targeted Minimum Benefit Plan

    Pamela Herd, Melissa Favreault, Madonna Harrington Meyer and Timothy M. Smeeding

    • RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences February 2018, 4 (2) 74-90;
    • DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2018.4.2.04
  • Reforming Policy for Single-Parent Families to Reduce Child Poverty

    Maria Cancian and Daniel R. Meyer

    • RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences February 2018, 4 (2) 91-112;
    • DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2018.4.2.05
  • Reconstructing the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program to More Effectively Alleviate Food Insecurity in the United States

    Craig Gundersen, Brent Kreider and John V. Pepper

    • RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences February 2018, 4 (2) 113-130;
    • DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2018.4.2.06
  • A Renter’s Tax Credit to Curtail the Affordable Housing Crisis

    Sara Kimberlin, Laura Tach and Christopher Wimer

    • RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences February 2018, 4 (2) 131-160;
    • DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2018.4.2.07
  • The Rainy Day Earned Income Tax Credit: A Reform to Boost Financial Security by Helping Low-Wage Workers Build Emergency Savings

    Sarah Halpern-Meekin, Sara Sternberg Greene, Ezra Levin and Kathryn Edin

    • RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences February 2018, 4 (2) 161-176;
    • DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2018.4.2.08