Content by Keyword: Report on Welfare Indicators and Risk Factors/Indicators of Welfare Dependence

Figure WORK 3. Mean Weekly Wages of Men Working Full-Time, Full-Year with No More than a High School Education, by Race (1999 Dollars): Selected Years Source:  ASPE tabulations of March CPS data.

Figure WORK 2.  Percentage of All Persons Ages 18 to 65 with No More than a High School Education Who Were Employed: 1969-2000 Source:  ASPE tabulations of March Current Population Surveys.

Figure WORK 1. Percentage of Individuals in Families with Labor Force Participants, by Race: 1999 Source: Unpublished tabulations of March CPS data.

Figure ECON 9. Percentage of Persons without Health Insurance, by Income: 1999 Source:  U.S. Bureau of the Census, Current Population Survey, March 2000.

Figure ECON 8. Percentage of Households Classified as Food Insecure: 1999 Source: U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, ERS, calculations using data August 1998 CPS Food Security Supplement.

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of Children Ages 0 to 5 in 1982 Living in Poverty Between 1982 and 1991, by Years in Poverty and Race Source: Unpublished data from the PSID, 1983-1992.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 Percentage of Poverty Spells for Individuals Entering Poverty During the 1993 SIPP Panel, by Length of Spell Source:  Unpublished data from the SIPP, 1993 panel.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