The California Welfare Laboratory's research database, continually updated from 1997 to 2017, includes hundreds of studies on welfare, poverty, and the social safety net in California. This database is oriented toward government officials, welfare program administrators, researchers, social welfare practitioners, interest groups, foundation officials, advocates, the media, and the public at large. It includes studies sponsored or conducted by the federal government, the State of California, local governments, academic researchers in public and private institutions of higher learning, and independent national and California-based research organizations. The database enables users to search these studies with keyword and multi-parameter searches.
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An Assessment of California's New State EITC
In 2015, California became one of 25 states to include a state Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) in its mix of social safety net programs. A new policy brief from the Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality examines whether this bold experiment is reducing poverty in California.