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; Timothy M. Smeeding

doi:10.7758/RSF.2018.4.2.04

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vol. 4 no. 2 74-90

DOI

https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2018.4.2.04

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RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences

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2377-8253

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2377-8261

History

Published online February 1, 2018.

© 2018 Russell Sage Foundation. Shaefer, H. Luke, Sophie Collyer, Greg Duncan, Kathryn Edin, Irwin Garfinkel, David Harris, Timothy M. Smeeding, Jane Waldfogel, Christopher Wimer, and Hirokazu Yoshikawa. 2018. “A Universal Child Allowance: A Plan to Reduce Poverty and Income Instability Among Children in the United States.” RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences 4(2): 22–42. DOI: 10.7758/RSF.2018.4.2.02. Direct correspondence to: H. Luke Shaefer at lshaefer@umich.edu, University of Michigan, Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, 735 South State St., Ann Arbor, MI 48104; Sophie Collyer at smc2246@columbia.edu, Center on Poverty and Social Policy, Columbia University School of Social Work, 1255 Amsterdam Ave., New York, NY 10027; Greg Duncan at gduncan@uci.edu, School of Education, University of California, Irvine, 3200 Education, Irvine, CA 92697; Kathryn Edin at kathy_edin@jhu.edu, Zanvyl Krieger School, Johns Hopkins University, Department of Sociology, 533 Mergenthaler Hall, 3400 N. Charles St., Baltimore, MD 21218; Irwin Garfinkel at ig3@columbia.edu, Columbia University School of Social Work, 1255 Amsterdam Ave., New York, NY 10025; David Harris at davidbharris@mac.com, Columbia Population Research Center, 1255 Amsterdam Ave., New York, NY 10027; Timothy M. Smeeding at smeeding@wisc.edu, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 3464 SSSB, 1180 Observatory Dr., Madison, WI 53706; Jane Waldfogel at jw205@columbia.edu, Columbia University School of Social Work, 1255 Amsterdam Ave., New York, NY 10027; Christopher Wimer at cw2727@columbia.edu, Columbia University School of Social Work, 1255 Amsterdam Ave., 7th Floor, New York, NY 10027; and Hirokazu Yoshikawa at hiro.yoshikawa@nyu.edu, New York University, 726 Broadway, 5th Floor, New York, NY 10003 . Open Access Policy: RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences is an open access journal. This article is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.

Author Information

Pamela Herd^a,
Melissa Favreault^b,
Madonna Harrington Meyer^c and
Timothy M. Smeeding^d

^aProfessor in the La Follette School of Public Affairs at the University of Wisconsin–Madison
^bSenior fellow in the Income and Benefits Policy Center at the Urban Institute
^cProfessor of sociology and senior research associate at the Center for Policy Research at the Maxwell School of Syracuse University
^cProfessor in the La Follette School of Public Affairs at the University of Wisconsin–Madison

Corresponding authors:
Pamela Herd, (pherd{at}lafollette.wisc.edu); Melissa Favreault, (mfaveau{at}urban.org); Madonna Harrington Meyer, (mhm{at}maxwell.syr.edu); Timothy M. Smeeding, (smeeding{at}lafollette.wisc.edu)

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