Economic Security Programs Reduce Overall Poverty, Racial and Ethnic Inequities [cbpp.org]
By Danilo Trisi and Matt Saenz, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, January 28, 2021 Our success as a nation depends on whether all people, regardless of race or ethnicity, have the opportunity to thrive. Economic security programs such as Social Security, food assistance, tax credits, and housing assistance can help provide opportunity by ameliorating short-term poverty and hardship and, by doing so, improving children’s long-term outcomes. Over the last half-century, these assistance...