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Change in Child Poverty by Selected Demographic Characteristics: 2007-2012
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This brief analyzes and summarizes changes in child poverty from 2007-2012. Cited statistics include changes in the poverty rate and number of children in poverty by age, race and ethnicity, family type, and immigrant generation.
Financial Condition and Health Care Burdens of People in Deep Poverty
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Americans living at the bottom of the income distribution often struggle to meet their basic needs on very limited incomes, even with the added assistance of government programs.
Financial Condition and Health Care Burdens of People in Deep Poverty
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Americans living at the bottom of the income distribution often struggle to meet their basic needs on very limited incomes, even with the added assistance of government programs.
Assets, Poverty, and Public Policy: Challenges in Definition and Measurement
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This report reviews the definitions and measures of assets and asset poverty in existing theoretical and empirical studies and suggests ways to make them more relevant for future research and policy development. In doing so, the report establishes a conceptual foundation for an emerging field of inquiry that focuses on the role of assets in social policy. [45 PDF pages]
Poverty in the United States: 50-Year Trends and Safety Net Impacts
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50-Year Trends and Safety Net Impacts Report
Low-Income Men at the Margins Caught at the Intersection of Race, Place, and Poverty
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Low-Income Men at the Margins Caught at the Intersection of Race, Place, and Poverty
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National Poverty Research Center FY 2007 - Announcement of Award
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Announcement of Award of Fiscal Year 2007
National and Area Poverty Research Centers, FY 2005: Announcement
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Announcement of Award of Fiscal Year 2005
Information on the Supplemental Poverty Measure - A Summary of 2013 Current Population Survey Data
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The brief summarizes findings from the Census Bureau’s Supplemental Poverty Measure report for 2013. The brief highlights SPM levels for the most recent year, changes from the previous year and historical trends. SPM estimates are compared to estimates of the official poverty measure.
National and Area Poverty Research Centers, FY 2002: Announcement
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The Department announced on October 4, 2002, $2.3 million in cooperative agreements to support continued research and evaluation of important and emerging social policy issues associated with the nature, causes, correlates, and effects of income dynamics, poverty, individual and family functioning and child well-being. The grantee for the national center is the University of Michigan.
Information On Poverty And Income Statistics: A Summary of 2014 Current Population Survey Data
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This brief analyzes and summarizes the poverty rates for various populations in the United States. Cited statistics include changes in the poverty rate and number of children in poverty by age, race and ethnicity, and family type.
Information on Poverty and Income Statistics: A Summary of 2014 Current Population Survey Data
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Is There Such a Thing as an Absolute Poverty Line Over Time? Evidence from the United States, Britain, Canada, and Australia on the Income Elasticity of the Poverty Line — SUMMARY
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Gordon M. Fisher (202) 690-6143 September 1995
Information on Poverty and Income Statistics: A Summary of 2013 Current Population Survey Data
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Environmental Scan of Programs and Policies Addressing Health Disparities Among Rural Children in Poverty
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About 12.9 million children live in rural communities, where they are more likely than their nonrural peers to experience health problems associated with their environment, their socioeconomic status, their own and their families’ health behaviors, and their access to quality clinical care.
Information on Poverty and Income Statistics: A Summary of 2012 Current Population Survey Data
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Reasons for Measuring Poverty in the United States in the Context of Public Policy — A Historical Review, 1916-1995
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The views expressed in this paper are those of the authorand do not represent the position of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. August 1999, revised June 2000