Family Self-Sufficiency and Stability Research Consortium

This video explains how income instability affects families’ everyday lives. It highlights opportunities for policymakers and program administrators to promote greater income stability and mobility through income support programs.

This is a viewer’s guide to four videos produced by researchers in the Family Self-Sufficiency and Stability Research Consortium on reducing poverty and increasing family stability in the United States.

This video explains how poverty has moved from rural and urban areas into suburban locales, where poverty problems are more acute.

This video discusses research on material hardship, which is the inability of households to meet basic needs and essential expenses.

This video describes efforts to promote engagement with fathers or father-figures in parenting programs.

This video describes how the Future Services Institute is using principles like human-centered design, information technology, and real-time research, like rapid-cycle evaluation, to help refashion public institutions to evolve, deliver effective services, and support innovation.

This video explains how income instability affects families’ everyday lives. It highlights opportunities for policymakers and program administrators to promote greater income stability and mobility through income support programs.

This brief highlights the Family Self-Sufficiency and Stability Research Consortium’s individual and collective efforts in 2017 to improve the lives of low-income families and children by integrating research, policy, and practice on family self-sufficiency and stability.

This research brief uses data from the Annual Social and Economic Supplement to the Current Population Study (CPS) to describe trends in the demographic and economic characteristics of social safety net recipients in Minnesota.

The Family Self-Sufficiency Data Center releases a new brief describing a model for using TANF data to understand caseload dynamics and address key policy questions.

This brief presents background on income volatility and income support programs before making recommendations for policymakers and program administrators to promote income stability and mobility with income support programs.

New research examining material hardship and sources of economic and family instability provides insight into how the Great Recession impacted households and, going forward, what might help those finding it hard to make ends meet.

This brief highlights the Family Self-Sufficiency and Stability Research Consortium’s individual and collective efforts to improve the lives of low-income families and children by integrating research, policy, and practice on family self-sufficiency and stability.

This brief highlights the Family Self-Sufficiency and Stability Research Consortium’s efforts to make meaningful contributions to the field in 2015.

This report highlights the changing socio-demographic composition of program participants for AFDC/TANF, SNAP and SSI between 1988 and 2015 and discusses the importance of addressing the needs of program participants from diverse backgrounds.

This brief uses interview and focus group data to describe some of the ways that restricted rural housing stock affects working families in two rural New England counties, and explores solutions proposed by rural residents and experts to make housing affordable.

This brief describes our use of an official poverty measure (OPM) framework to simulate who is most at risk of falling into poverty through the birth, adoption, or fostering of a child.