How Council research and policy networks shaped the New Deal's landmark social insurance legislation.

Why policymaking on Social Security, long-term care, and taxes remains frozen, and how reform might advance.

Why democracy has neither required equality nor delivered the redistribution so many predicted it would.

The authors examine whether stronger state safety nets reduce high-cost borrowing and expand credit access.

The authors explore how remittances shape recipients' demand for government taxation and social insurance.

The authors measure how state antipoverty efforts shaped inequality below the poverty line, 1967–2019.