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Toward Reduced Poverty Across Generations: Early Findings from New York City’s Conditional Cash Transfer Program

2010; RELX Group (Netherlands); Linguagem: Inglês

1556-5068

James Riccio, Nadine Dechausay, David Greenberg, Cynthia Miller, Zawadi Rucks, Nandita Verma,

Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics

Targeted toward low-income families in six high-poverty New York City communities, Opportunity NYC-Family Rewards offers cash payments tied to efforts and achievements in children’s education, family preventive health care practices, and parents’ employment. In its first two years, the program substantially reduced poverty and material hardship and had positive results in improving some education, health-related, and work-related outcomes.