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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
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]
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.
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.
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.
Effect of Home Ownership on Poverty Measurement
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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.
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.
Change in Poverty by Select Demographic Groups: 2007–2012
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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.
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]]
Transition Events in the Dynamics of Poverty
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by: Signe-Mary McKernan and Caroline Ratcliffe The Urban Institute Prepared for:U.S. Department of Health and Human ServicesOffice of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation Contract # HHS-100-99-0003
Transition Events in the Dynamics of Poverty
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This project addressed transition events associated with people entering and exiting poverty using data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) and the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID). The study found that poverty entries and exits changed over the past two decades, with an increase in both poverty entries and exits (i.e., "cycling") in the mid 1990s.
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.
Supplemental Poverty Measure Brief: 2009-2012
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