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Poverty & Economic Mobility

ASPE releases the annual U.S. Federal Poverty Guidelines, which are used to determine financial eligibility for some Federal programs. Presented here are the poverty lines for every State and the District of Columbia. You will also find extensive resources on poverty estimates, trends, and analysis, plus historical information on poverty and the Guidelines. More broadly, this section also encompasses issues like poverty and income dynamics, and asset building and financial literacy.

Reports

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Effects of Marriage on Family Economic Well-Being

Prepared by: Robert Lerman Urban Institute and American University This four-paper series examines the economic returns to marriage. Findings from the papers are synthesized in a Summary by Kelleen Kaye, senior analyst at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Case Study

Medicaid Buy-In Programs: Case Studies of Early Implementer States

This paper describes the findings from nine Case Study states. These case studies were conducted: (1) To examine early implementation experience among the states in order to gain an understanding of the programmatic, fiscal, and political context in which design decisions were made.

The Medicaid Buy-In Programs: Lessons Learned From Nine "Early Implementer" States

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Advancing State Child Indicators Initiatives

Contents Overview:  Project Objectives, Operations, and Key Concerns Overview of Technical Assistance to States Key Project Products and Publications Communicating the Results and Lessons Learned from the Child Indicators Project
Report to Congress

Indicators of Welfare Dependence: Annual Report to Congress, 2002

The Welfare Indicators Act of 1994 requires the Department of Health and Human Services to prepare annual reports to Congress on indicators and predictors of welfare dependence.

Employment Outcomes for Youth Aging Out of Foster Care

Employment Outcomes for Youth Aging Out of Foster Care Final Report Robert M. Goerge, Principal Investigator Lucy Bilaver, Bong Joo Lee Chapin Hall Center for Children at the University of Chicago Barbara Needell, Alan Brookhart, William Jackman Center for Social Services Research, University of California Berkeley March, 2002

Eligibility for CCDF-Funded Child Care Subsidies under the October 1999 Program Rules: Results from the TRIM3 Microsimulation Model

This paper reports estimates of the numbers of families and children who are eligible for child care subsidies under the Child Care and Developemtn Fund (CCDF). The estimates are produced by the Transfer Income Model (TRIM) developed by the Urban Institute under contract to ASPE. The paper explains the estimation methodology and also presents detailed national and state-level estimates.