We clearly see the way we define poverty and they way we measure the concept has substantial consequences for the next policy measures.

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• Towards universal child care benefits in the US
  (Estimated 5 minute read) Early on in the Biden administration, Vice President Kamala Harris tweeted the message below. In her tweet, she claimed that the Child Tax Credit (CTC) would cut child poverty in America in half. The question is now if this assessment is correct or if this policy assessment is based on a… Read more: Towards universal child care benefits in the US
• Universalistic approaches to social policy and poverty conceptualization
  (Estimated 21 minute reading time) In the past decades, there has been a pendulum swing back and forth following the expansion of welfare states and the extent of universal social provisioning towards targeted approaches used to identify and distribute social assistance more directly to the poor. During the 1970s and 1980s a shift towards more… Read more: Universalistic approaches to social policy and poverty conceptualization
• Poverty: Behind the scenes
  Something else to be seen through the looking glass? (Estimated 5 minute read) If you were to ask someone on the street how they would define poverty, you would likely hear the concept defined in different terms, yet more or less the same. In this hypothetical narrative, most people might say something along the following… Read more: Poverty: Behind the scenes