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The Fiscal Impact of Refugees and Asylees at the Federal, State, and Local Levels from 2005-2019
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Between 1990 and 2022, the United States welcomed over 2.1 million refugees and accepted over 800,000 asylees. While the purpose of granting visas to refugees and asylees is humanitarian, they do impact the United States economically. This analysis estimates the fiscal impact of refugees and asylees on federal, state, and local governments from 2005 to 2019.
Overview of Community Characteristics in Areas With Concentrated Poverty
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Prepared By: Erica E. Meade
Change in Poverty by Select Demographic Groups: 2007–2012
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Poverty Research Centers: FY 2011 Awards
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Announcement of Award of Fiscal Year 2011 The Department announced on September 29th $2.4 million in grants 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.
Poverty Lines and Measures of Income Inadequacy in the United States Since 1870: Collecting and Using a Little-Known Body of Historical Material
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by Gordon M. Fisher
A paper presented October 17, 1997,
at the 22nd Meeting of the Social Science History Association
Washington, D.C.
The views expressed in this paper are those of the author and do not represent the position of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Effect of Home Ownership on Poverty Measurement
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2020 Annual Poverty Research and Policy Forum: Measuring Economic Mobility Quarterly Leadership Memo Series
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The Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin–Madison (IRP) prepared a series of three memos on economic mobility for Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE). These memos were shared with forum participants and may be of interest to a broader audience.
Measuring Income and Poverty in Four Surveys: an Overview
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Measuring Income and Poverty in Four Surveys: An Overview Final Report Prepared by:
Measuring Income and Poverty in Four Surveys: an Overview
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Policy makers use national surveys to paint a picture of the U.S. population along a variety of dimensions. If major surveys are equally successful in capturing income, then, for the same time period, populations and income types, consistently defined income estimates and poverty rates across surveys will be highly similar varying somewhat due to sampling error.
Change in Child Poverty by Select Demographic Characteristics: 2007-2012
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Since the Great Recession poverty has increased overall and particularly for children. Nearly all of the increase in child poverty occurred between 2007 and 2010 with the national rate rising by 3.8 percentage points, as shown by the orange bars (from 18.0 percent to 21.8 percent). In 2011 and 2012 the national poverty rate leveled off with little change, as shown by the green bars.
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.
Counting Persons in Poverty on the Current Population Survey
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This paper explains differences between the counts of persons in poverty as published by the Census and the counts one gets when doing a simple tabulation of the public use CPS file.
Counting Persons in Poverty on the Current Population Survey
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This paper explains differences between the counts of persons in poverty as published by the Census Bureau, and the counts one gets when doing a simple tabulation of the public use CPS file. (ASPE Research Notes, Volume 20) [5 PDF pages]
Assets, Poverty, and Public Policy: Challenges in Definition and Measurement
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Poor Finances: Assets and Low-Income Households Assets, Poverty, and Public Policy: Challenges in Definition and Measurement December 2008 By: Yunju Nam, Jin Huang, and Michael Sherraden Center for Social Development Washington University in Saint Louis
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