Content by Keyword: Poverty and Measurement

Figure ECON 7a.  Total, Non-AFDC/TANF, and AFDC/TANF Title IV-D Child Support Collections: 1978-1999

Figure ECON 6. Percentage of Children Ages 0 to 5 in 1982 Living in Poverty Between 1982 and 1991, by Years in Poverty and Race Source: Unpublished data from the PSID, 1983-1992.

Figure ECON 5. Percentage of Poverty Spells for Individuals Entering Poverty During the 1993 SIPP Panel, by Length of Spell Source:  Unpublished data from the SIPP, 1993 panel.

Figure ECON 4.  Percentage of Total Population in Poverty with Various Means-Tested Benefits Added to Total Cash Income: 1979-1999

Figure ECON 3. Percentage of Persons in Poverty Using Official and Alternative Poverty Measure: 1990-1999 Source:  Census Bureau tabulations of March CPS data.

Figure ECON 2. Percentage of Total Population Below 50 and 100 Percent of Poverty Level: 1975-1999

Figure ECON 1.  Percentage of Persons in Poverty, by Age: 1959-1999

The Welfare Indicators Act challenges the Department of Health and Human Services to identify and set forth not only indicators of welfare dependence and welfare duration, but also predictors and causes of welfare receipt.  Up to this point, welfare research has not established clear and definitive causes of welfare dependence.  However, researc

Table IND 11a. Percentage of First AFDC Spell Beginnings Associated with Specific Events: Selected Periods   Spell Began 1973-1979 Spell Began 1980-1985 Spell Began 1986-1991 First birth to an unmarried, non-cohabiting mother 27.9 20.9 22.2

Figure IND 10. Percentage of AFDC Recipients in 1982, by Years of Receipt Between 1982 and 1991 Source: Unpublished data from the PSID, 1983-1992.

Figure IND9. Percentage of AFDC Recipients with More than 50 Percent of Income from AFDC and Food Stamps Between 1982 and 1991, by Years of Dependency

Figure IND 8. Percentage of AFDC, Food Stamp, and SSI Spells for Individuals Entering Programs During the 1993 SIPP Panel, by Length of Spell

Figure IND 7. Percentage of AFDC Spells of Individuals in Families with No Labor Force Participants for Individuals Entering Programs During the 1993 SIPP Panel, by Length of Spell

Figure IND 6. Dependency Status in 1995 of Persons Who Received More than 50 Percent of Income from Means-Tested Assistance in 1994, by Race Source:  Unpublished data from the SIPP, 1993 panel.

Figure IND 5. Percentage of Population Receiving Assistance from Multiple Programs (TANF, Food Stamps, & SSI), Among Those Receiving Assistance: 1998

Figure IND 4. Participation Rates in the AFDC/TANF, Food Stamp and SSI Programs:  Selected Years

Figure IND 3a. Percentage of the Total Population Receiving AFDC/TANF, by Age: 1970-1999

Figure IND 2a. Percentage of Recipients in Families with Labor Force Participants, by Program: 1998 Source: March CPS data, analyzed using the TRIM3 microsimulation model.

Figure IND 1a. Percentage of Total Income from Means-Tested Assistance Programs: 1998 Source:  March CPS data, analyzed using the TRIM3 microsimulation model.