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New article in RSF! How much progress has been made on single-mother poverty since welfare reform? Sarah K. Bruch, @janetgornick.bsky.social, and I document both real improvements and enduring racial disparities. www.rsfjournal.org/content/12/1...
Changes in US social provisioning from 1996 to 2018 profoundly affected the well-being of single-mother families, with notable consequences for racial inequalities in poverty alleviation. Using an ins...
Our findings add to the growing body evidence that policy decentralization and the perpetuation of racial inequality are inextricable. To paraphrase Aaron Wildavsky, federalism produces inequality.
Post-tax-and-transfer poverty among single-mother families has dropped significantly since 1996, particularly for Black and Latino families. But single-mother poverty remains stubbornly high.
What's driving poverty reduction for single mothers over this period? Transfer programs for which states hold discretion over financing, administration, and rule-making reduce single-mother poverty more than any other aspect of social provisioning.
This paper was published as a part of the
@russellsagefdn.bsky.social Journal's double-issue revisiting the findings of Edin and Lein’s book Making Ends Meet after three decades:
www.rsfjournal.org/content/12/1 and www.rsfjournal.org/content/12/2
Moreover, progress hasn't been equal: in 2018, approx. one-third of Black and Latino single-mother families lived in poverty versus 22% of white single-mother families. In short, substantial racial gaps remain.
