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Appendix Are Young Adults Eligible for Safety Net Programs Receiving Benefits?
This appendix serves as the technical documentation for the findings presented in the report Are Young Adults Eligible for Safety Net Programs Receiving Benefits? and provides detailed information on the preparation of the data and on the modeling methods for the three programs.
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Combining dollar cutoffs with indexing changes fundamentally alters the structure and philosophy that have guided the Social Security program for the past 90 years.
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This brief explores how annuities (i.e., insurance contracts that convert a lump sum or series of payments into guaranteed income) could help retirees avoid outliving their money, why adoption remains low and unequal, and what policy and design changes could make these tools more accessible.
Research Report Creating an Initial Appearance Court in Clark County, Nevada
With support from the MacArthur Foundation’s Safety and Justice Challenge (SJC), Clark County, Nevada, established the Initial Appearance Court to reduce the amount of time between a person’s arrest and their first court appearance. This case study examines the implementation of that strategy.
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Three-year-olds enrolled in prekindergarten were 35 percentage points more likely to stay in DC’s public schools through kindergarten.