Safety Net Content / Safety Net Content for ºÙºÙÊÓƵ en Why Can’t the U.S. Expand Pandemic Relief Programs? /curiosity/blog/why-not-expand-pandemic-relief-programs The U.S. government introduced new social assistance programs and strengthened existing ones. The relief should continue. February 14, 2022 - 3:22pm Karen Michele Nikos /curiosity/blog/why-not-expand-pandemic-relief-programs Can We Expand the Safety Net for the Underserved in COVID-19? /curiosity-gap/can-we-expand-safety-net-underserved-covid-19 <p>By Marianne P. Bitler, ºÙºÙÊÓƵ; Hilary W. Hoynes, UC Berkeley; and Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach, Northwestern University</p> <p><em>This blog is excerpted from a full brief <a href="https://poverty.ucdavis.edu/post/covid-19-recession-highlights-need-expansion-social-safety-net">here</a>. </em></p> September 16, 2020 - 12:07pm Karen Michele Nikos /curiosity-gap/can-we-expand-safety-net-underserved-covid-19 Predictions for 2018 From ºÙºÙÊÓƵ /news/predictions-2018-university-california-davis <p>University of California, Davis, asked a collection of faculty and administrators what their predictions on important national and global issues might be for 2018. Here is our third annual list of predictions for the new year.</p> December 20, 2017 - 3:08pm Karen Michele Nikos /news/predictions-2018-university-california-davis Pregnant Mothers Who Received Medical Care Through Medicaid Had Healthier Grandchildren /news/pregnant-mothers-who-received-medical-care-through-medicaid-had-healthier-grandchildren-uc <p>National Medicaid expansions in the 1980s that resulted in medical care being made available to more low-income pregnant mothers affected health outcomes for later generations,&nbsp;a substantial return on government investment, according to a working paper from the University of California, Davis, Center for Poverty Research.</p> November 17, 2017 - 4:38pm Karen Michele Nikos /news/pregnant-mothers-who-received-medical-care-through-medicaid-had-healthier-grandchildren-uc