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Source: Unpublished data from the PSID, 1983-1992.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Source: Unpublished data from the SIPP, 1993 panel.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 3. Percentage of Persons in Poverty Using Official and Alternative Poverty Measure: 1990-1999
Source: Census Bureau tabulations of March CPS data.
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 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Source: Unpublished data from the SIPP, 1993 panel.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 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.