When Done Right, Work Supports Work: Medicaid and Mothers' Employment and Wages


 

Publication Date: March 2005

Publisher: Center for Economic and Policy Research

Author(s): Heather Boushey

Research Area: Labor

Keywords: Women workers; Child care; Welfare

Type: Report

Coverage: United States

Abstract:

This paper examines the importance of Medicaid and finds that work supports such as Medicaid make all the difference in keeping working mothers in the labor force.