The Effects of the New York City Minimum Wage Increases on Earnings, Poverty, and Material Hardship: Evidence from the Poverty Tracker
This report examines the impact that the New York City minimum wage increases in 2017, 2018, and 2019 had on low-wage workers in the Poverty Tracker sample, looking specifically at earnings, poverty, material hardship, employment, and benefit receipt. The increases contributed to a significant increase in annual earnings of minimum wage workers and did benefit workers that were more likely to face poverty and material hardship.
The Initial Effects of the Expanded Child Tax Credit on Material Hardship
In this working paper, we investigate the initial impact of the monthly Child Tax Credit payments on material hardship. Even with imperfect coverage, we find that the first monthly CTC payments strongly reduced food insufficiency among low-income households with children.