MLRI staff regularly write and disseminate policy papers, reports and other publications on issues impacting economic, racial and social justice for low-income people.
If Not Now, When?
If Not Now, When? lays out a blueprint and a set of recommendations that outline how Massachusetts can regain its position as an innovator in promoting child welfare, and how it can reconfigure its programs and services to best serve fragile families and children.
Out in the Cold: Homeless Children in Crisis in Massachusetts
This report highlights the adverse impacts of restrictions on eligibility to emergency shelter for homeless families with children—including, e.g., forcing homeless children to stay in places not meant for human habitation, shifting cost burdens to the Commonwealth’s health care system, and forcing vulnerable families to resort to unsafe and destabilizing irregular housing practices—and makes recommendations to fix the most urgent problems.
