The U.S. social safety net—or the collection of government programs established to meet basic needs and provide economic security—is too often set up to exclude children of immigrants.
A new brief discusses how safety net policies and practices respond to the U.S. job market and interact with the U.S. immigration system, and how this patchwork of systems creates barriers and limits access to such children. The brief then offers policy recommendations that can promote greater inclusivity for children in immigrant families.
