impact of the current pandemic on income and poverty to inform the targeting of resources to those most affected and assess … the success of current efforts. We construct new measures of the income distribution and poverty with a lag of only a few … weeks using high frequency data from the Basic Monthly Current Population Survey (CPS), which collects income information …

pronounced for hospitalizations and emergency department visits related to chronic illnesses and those of patients living in low-income …

extended eligibility only to children born after September 30, 1983. This feature resulted in a large discontinuity in the … lifetime years of Medicaid eligibility of children at this birthdate cutoff. Those with family incomes at or just below the … cohorts of children born on either side of this cutoff from childhood through early adulthood. We examine changes in rates of …