The cost-of-living crisis that began in the aftermath of the COVID-19 crisis and the attempted
Russian invasion of Ukraine has major implications for social policy. In advanced industrial …

How have local governments incorporated equity into their investments of state and local
rescue funds from the American Rescue Plan Act? We explore the multiple mechanisms …

Will a legacy of fiscal stress limit local governments' willingness to make equity-focused
investments even in the context of the relative surplus that American Rescue Plan funds …

Abstract The 2021 American Rescue Plan included the temporary expansion of the Child
Tax Credit (CTC)—the largest individual income tax credit program in the United States—for …

Can experience with one set of policies result in support for a set of different, but related,
policies? To show how this is possible, we develop a new dimension of policy feedback …

Administrative burdens are an important policy tool that has received growing scholarly
attention. Burdens are consequential and serve as a contributor to incomplete program take …

This article presents novel empirical findings on whether and under what conditions the
public supports apprenticeship subsidies paid to training firms during the COVID‐19 …

The boundaries for whom the welfare state should protect during times of crisis are not
necessarily obvious. Deservingness studies have identified unemployed people and …

Previous studies have shown that America generally has a low level of support for
redistribution, in large part due to racial prejudice, particularly toward the poor. The COVID …

The cost-of-living crisis that began in the aftermath of the COVID-19 crisis and the attempted
Russian invasion of Ukraine has major implications for social policy. In advanced industrial …