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Further Resources on Poverty Measurement, Poverty Lines, and Their History

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Introduction This page includes resources on the two slightly different versions of the U.S. (federal) poverty measure: the poverty thresholds and the poverty guidelines.

Children’s Interagency Coordinating Council FY 2023 Report to Congress

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As part of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023, Congress provided HHS with funding for the Children’s Interagency Coordinating Council (CICC). The CICC is charged with fostering greater coordination and transparency on child policy across federal agencies and examining a broad array of cross-cutting issues affecting child poverty and child well-being.

Poverty Estimates, Trends, and Analysis

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The topic of poverty is widely considered a cause for national action because poor families often encounter material hardships and reduced well-being and because children who grow up in poor households are less likely to thrive as adults.

Poverty Research Centers

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How Many Americans Were Really in Poverty in 1947? Estimates of the U.S. Poverty Population Between 1947 and 1963 Under Two Contemporary (1949 and 1959) Definitions of Poverty

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22nd Welfare Indicators and Risk Factors Report to Congress

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This report provides welfare dependence indicators through 2019 for most indicators and through 2020 for other indicators, reflecting changes that have taken place since enactment of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) in 1996.

Advancing Primary Prevention in Human Services: Key Considerations for Administrators and Practitioners

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This brief presents considerations for program administrators and other practitioners around increasing the use of primary prevention in human services systems to shift from responding to families after they are in crisis to preventing the crisis before it occurs.

Advancing Primary Prevention in Human Services: Key Considerations for Policy Designers and Funding Partners

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This brief provides key considerations for policy designers and funding partners—such as federal staff, technical experts, and philanthropic partners—on incorporating primary prevention into human services delivery.

Information on Poverty and Income Statistics Tables

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Figure 1. Poverty Rate of All Persons Year Number of persons below poverty Percent of persons below poverty SOURCE: U.S.

Advancing Primary Prevention in Human Services: Opportunities for People with Lived Experience

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This brief highlights a new way of delivering primary prevention services that promotes equity by relying on the guidance and leadership of people with lived experience. The policy designers and service providers behind prevention services should have lived experience and/or co-create these services with people who do.

Participation in the U.S. Social Safety Net: Multiple Programs, 2019

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Safety net programs provide critical support to people during times of economic hardship. Yet the reach and coverage of the safety net, particularly in times of increased need and among economically disadvantaged groups, is not well understood. The U.S.

"Is Everything Relative?" The Role of Equivalence Scales in Poverty Measurement

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History of Poverty Thresholds

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The Development and History of the U.S. Poverty Thresholds — A Brief Overview by Gordon M. Fisher, Department of Health and Human Services

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.

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.

Transition Events in the Dynamics of Poverty

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Poverty in the United States: 50-Year Trends and Safety Net Impacts

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50-Year Trends and Safety Net Impacts Report

Some Popular Beliefs About the U.S. Poverty Line as Reflected in Inquiries from the Public

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by Gordon M. Fisher, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services [The Sociologist [Newsletter of the District of Columbia Sociological Society], Vol. 30, No. 2, October 1996 [p. 6]]

Selected Articles and Papers by Mollie Orshansky About the Poverty Thresholds and the Poverty Population

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(A chronological bibliography of Orshansky's publications is also available.) Mollie Orshansky, "Children of the Poor"*, Social Security Bulletin, Vol. 26, No. 7, July 1963, pp. 3-13.