AbstractThis study examines how mental health courts, despite being presented as therapeutic alternatives to incarceration, reproduce carceral control over criminalized people with psychiatric disabil...

AbstractPaternal incarceration affects millions of children and has been linked to numerous negative outcomes for both parents and children. In this article, we extend the prior research by examining ...

Two hundred and fifty years in, Opinion writers offer 16 reasons the national experiment endures.

Abstract Employers have a direct financial interest in the federal-state unemployment insurance (UI) system. Employer taxes, which generally increase when an employer’s former employee receives benefi...

Abstract In service provision, some interorganizational relationships face enduring conflicts where boundary work is necessary (e.g., when one partner works to mitigate the potential harms caused by a...

Abstract Despite increased attention to the phenomenon of administrative burdens, we know less about efforts to minimize these burdens, particularly how those efforts affect frontline staff. This arti...

Abstract Unionized public mental health clinicians have increasingly engaged in labor organizing to improve their demanding labor conditions and to stem the tide of ongoing public mental health workfo...

Abstract Administrative burden can impede access to programs for individuals with diminished material and cognitive resources. Research shows that individuals may respond to burdens differently—they a...

Abstract Researchers and policy makers who focus on paid family leave have devoted little attention to American Indian and Alaska Native (AIAN) people. To address this gap, the authors investigate ear...

Abstract The Fight for $15 launched a resurgence of the US labor movement. Little research has examined the impact of unions established through this movement, particularly in the health-care industry...

Abstract This article examines how Housing Choice Voucher Program participants encounter and negotiate stigma during the housing search. The stigmatization of government subsidies is well documented, ...

Abstract Street-level bureaucrats (SLBs) define policy implementation and outcomes through their direct interactions with clients and their discretionary decision-making. SLB choices, though generally...

Abstract Research has identified a likely causal relationship between economic precarity and both child maltreatment and child protective services (CPS) involvement. Yet little is known about the rela...

Abstract The expression “doing time” is no longer limited to the forced idleness and penitence of prison. The reentry process now places considerable demands on the time of reentering citizens, who mu...

Abstract This article reports the long-term effects of child development accounts (CDAs), a policy fostering asset building for all children, on two educational outcomes: parents’ educational expectat...

Abstract A growing share of children reside in households that include at least one grandparent. Safety net programs have typically been designed for a “traditional” household structure and may not ac...

Abstract In this article, we explore how school social workers recognize and respond to the precarity of immigrant students in their schools, with particular attention to how they broker resources to ...

Abstract To inform US policy debates about the introduction of a national paid leave program, we conduct a benefit-cost analysis of its introduction. We identify high-quality, quasi-experimental studi...

Abstract Human rights denote universality, moral normativity, and the international community. Citizenship rights, meanwhile, denote particularity, collective identity, and sovereign territory. Yet so...

Abstract Across the United States, the supply of child care is changing, and for many states, this includes a decline in family child care. Family child care and center-based care offer different adva...

Have you ever been invited to review a new book for an academic journal, but felt unsure of how to proceed? Book reviews are an important service to the academic world, but few of us were ever taught...

Abstract Child benefits can play an important role in supporting families during a life stage of increased household needs. However, they may also have negative effects on parental work incentives, po...

President Donald Trump’s tax plan serves America’s gilded class more than the middle class, writes Bruce Fuller.

Abstract Deep canvassing is one of few attitude-change interventions repeatedly shown to work, yet it has not been examined in the context of anticarceral issues. Scholars and advocates also debate wh...

The persistence and vitality of games in our culture suggest that game-playing should be encouraged and not abandoned or viewed derisively. Games are autoteuc activities with a potency for teaching ps...

Abstract This article considers whether there have been substantial changes in volunteering in the United States. Drawing on an extensive review of historical, ethnographic, and survey data, it focuse...