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Study to Examine UI Eligibility Among Former TANF Recipients: Evidence from New Jersey, Final Report
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Contents Key Findings Conclusions Endnotes Major welfare reform legislation and a strong economy have led to dramatic declines in welfare caseloads during the mid- and late-1990s, with many recipients leaving welfare and finding employment.
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:
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 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.
Computations for the 2000 Annual Update of the HHS Poverty Guidelines for the 48 Contiguous States and the District of Columbia
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(1) Size of family unit (2) Poverty thresholds for 1998 (weighted averages)a/ (3) Column 2 multiplied by 1.022 price inflatorb/ (4)
Computations for the 2001 Annual Update of the HHS Poverty Guidelines for the 48 Contiguous States and the District of Columbia
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(1) Size of family unit (2) Poverty thresholds for 1999 (weighted averages)a/ (3) Column 2 multiplied by 1.034 price inflatorb/ (4)
Computations for the 2002 Annual Update of the HHS Poverty Guidelines for the 48 Contiguous States and the District of Columbia
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(1) Size of family unit (2) Poverty thresholds for 2000 (weighted averages)a/ (3)
Computations for the 2003 Annual Update of the HHS Poverty Guidelines for the 48 Contiguous States and the District of Columbia
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(1) Size of family unit (2) Poverty thresholds for 2001 (weighted averages)a/ (3)
Computations for the 2004 Annual Update of the HHS Poverty Guidelines for the 48 Contiguous States and the District of Columbia
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(1) Size of family unit (2) Poverty thresholds for 2002 (weighted averages)a/ (3)
Computations for the 2006 Annual Update of the HHS Poverty Guidelines for the 48 Contiguous States and the District of Columbia
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(1) Persons in family or household (2) Poverty thresholds for 2004 — published Aug. 2005a/ (3) Column 2 multiplied by 1.034 price inflatorb/ (4)
Computations for the 2007 Annual Update of the HHS Poverty Guidelines for the 48 Contiguous States and the District of Columbia
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(1) Persons in family or household (2) Poverty thresholds for 2005 — published Aug. 2006a/ (3) Column 2 multiplied by 1.032 price inflatorb/ (4)
Computations for the 2008 Annual Update of the HHS Poverty Guidelines for the 48 Contiguous States and the District of Columbia
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(1) Persons in family or household (2) Poverty thresholds for 2006 — published Aug. 2007a/ (3)
Computations for the 2009 Annual Update of the HHS Poverty Guidelines for the 48 Contiguous States and the District of Columbia
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(1) Persons in family or household (2) Poverty thresholds for 2007 — published Aug. 2008a/ (3)
Computations for the 2010 Annual Update of the HHS Poverty Guidelines for the 48 Contiguous States and the District of Columbia
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(1) Persons in family or household (2) Poverty thresholds for 2008 — published Sep. 2009a/ (3)
Computations for the 2011 Annual Update of the HHS Poverty Guidelines for the 48 Contiguous States and the District of Columbia
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(1) Persons in family or household (2) Poverty thresholds for 2009 — published Sep. 2010a/ (3)
Computations for the 2012 Annual Update of the HHS Poverty Guidelines for the 48 Contiguous States and the District of Columbia
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(1) Persons in family or household (2) Poverty thresholds for 2010 — published Sep. 2011a/ (3) Column 2 multiplied by 1.032 price inflatorb/ (4)
Geographic Variation in the Cost of Living: Implications for the Poverty Guidelines and Program Eligibility
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This report, prepared by the Urban Institute, provides a thorough review of the literature on the extent of price variation across geographic areas, an assessment of the available indices to use to adjust the poverty guidelines for geographic price variation, and trial estimates of how geographically adjusted poverty guidelines would affect program eligibility and federal and state costs.
Prior HHS Poverty Guidelines and Federal Register References
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Poverty guidelines since 1982 for the 48 contiguous states and the District of Columbia can be calculated by addition using the figures shown below.
Frequently Asked Questions Related to the Poverty Guidelines and Poverty
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What are the differences between the poverty guidelines and the poverty thresholds?
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 ]