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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
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.
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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Economic Patterns of Single Mothers Following Their Poverty Exits
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This report examines the employment patterns and income progression of single mothers and their families for two years after they exit poverty. The study found that 30 percent of single mothers were poor but then left poverty. Work effort was high among single mothers who left poverty: on average they worked for three-quarters of the subsequent two years following their poverty exit.
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
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 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.