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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.
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.
Advancing Primary Prevention in Human Services: Convening Findings
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This brief highlights key themes and ideas from a Health and Human Services (HHS) Convening on Advancing Primary Prevention in Human Services in August 2022. With a particular focus on prevention of youth and family homelessness, the convening featured the perspectives of academic experts, program administrators, federal colleagues, and people with lived expertise.
Risks that Come with Increasing Earnings for Low-Income Workers Receiving Safety Net Programs: Perspectives of Working Parents
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In focus group discussions with 44 working parents receiving assistance from one or more federal programs, many parents shared the view that increasing earnings involves a number of risks. Participants described the sequence of possible risk events as follows:
The Impact of the First Year of the COVID-19 Pandemic and Recession on Families With Low Incomes
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The COVID-19 crisis has disparately harmed low-income households. Across the United States, systemic inequalities in employment, wage-earning, health, and well-being have been strained for sub-populations facing poverty or near-poverty conditions.
2012 HHS Poverty Guidelines
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One Version of the [U.S.] Federal Poverty Measure
[ Federal Register Notice, January 26, 2012 Full text ]
[ Prior Poverty Guidelines and Federal Register References Since 1982 ]
2013 Poverty Guidelines
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One Version of the [U.S.] Federal Poverty Measure
[Federal Register Notice, January 24, 2013 — Full text ]
2014 Poverty Guidelines
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One Version of the [U.S.] Federal Poverty Measure
[Federal Register Notice, January 24, 2014 Full text ]
2015 Poverty Guidelines
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U.S. Federal Poverty Guidelines Used to Determine Financial Eligibility for Certain Federal Programs
[Federal Register Notice, January 22, 2015 Full text ]
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.
2010 HHS Poverty Guidelines
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THE HHS POVERTY GUIDELINES
FOR THE REMAINDER OF 2010
(August 2010)
2011 HHS Poverty Guidelines
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The 2011 HHS Poverty Guidelines One Version of the [U.S.] Federal Poverty Measure [ Latest Poverty Guidelines ]
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]]
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.
2006 HHS Poverty Guidelines
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One Version of the [U.S.] Federal Poverty Measure
[Latest Poverty Guidelines]
[Federal Register Notice with 2006 Guidelines – Full Text]
2007 HHS Poverty Guidelines
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One Version of the [U.S.] Federal Poverty Measure
[Latest Poverty Guidelines]
[Federal Register Notice with 2007 Guidelines – Full Text]
2008 HHS Poverty Guidelines
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One Version of the [U.S.] Federal Poverty Measure
[Latest Poverty Guidelines]