this analysis highlights the need in order to counteract the effects of the crisis and reduce child poverty to implement policies that not only increase access to employment for parents from lowincome families but also promote greater mobility towards better quality and better paid jobs finally the decline in disposable income experienced in many countries by lowand very lowincome families suggests that social benefits have played a rather limited role in mitigating the effects of the crisis there is however some indication that transfers may have cushioned the effects the great recession had on the income of the poorest families in the united kingdom and the united states as shown also by bradshaw chzhen and main and wimer and smeeding