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The Sum of Its Parts? Assessing Variation and Trends in Family Income Support Across the 48 Contiguous United States

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  • Zachary Parolin
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Against the backdrop of increasing signs of state-level divergence in social and labor market policies, this study sets out to capture the extent of variation of family income support across the 48 contiguous United States (all but Alaska and Hawaii), as well as how states’ income protections have evolved since the ‘devolution revolution’ of the mid-1990s. To achieve this, simulations of family income support are calculated for working and jobless lone-parent families in each state in 1994 and 2014. The findings point to a common trend across states of declining income support for jobless families, but increasing net incomes for lone parents who work full-time at minimum wage. The simulations also reveal significant differences in the adequacy of protections offered to lone-parent families across the American states; moreover, the evidence suggests that states have increasingly diverged with respect to certain instruments of family income support between 1994 and 2014. As the study details, these trends emphasize a potential need for more dissected analyses of the United States when the country is embedded into comparative social policy research. Shifting the unit of analysis from the federal to state level challenges unitary conceptualizations of the nature of U.S. family policy institutions.

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  • Zachary Parolin, 2016. "The Sum of Its Parts? Assessing Variation and Trends in Family Income Support Across the 48 Contiguous United States," Working Papers 1605, Herman Deleeck Centre for Social Policy, University of Antwerp.
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    Keywords

    child poverty; family income support; family policy; minimum income protections; welfare reform;
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    JEL classification:

    • I38 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - Government Programs; Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs
    • I32 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - Measurement and Analysis of Poverty
    • J38 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs - - - Public Policy

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