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Poverty & Income Dynamics

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Providing TA to Local Programs and Communities: Lessons from a Scan of Initiatives Offering TA to Human Services Programs

This scan of public and private technical assistance (TA) initiatives synthesizes lessons, challenges, and best practices for providing federal TA to human services programs working to address poverty and child well-being. The scan, encompassing 18 TA initiatives, is intended to inform decisions about how best to target TA efforts for different situations, audiences, and objectives.
Report to Congress

Welfare Indicators and Risk Factors, Sixteenth Report to Congress

This report provides welfare indicators through 2014 for most indicators and through 2015 for some indicators, reflecting changes that have taken place since enactment of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) in 1996.

Income and Employment Fluctuations among Low-Income Working Families and Their Implications for Child Care Subsidy Policy

This brief explores income and employment patterns of working families, potentially eligible for Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) subsidies, over a 12-month period.  Analysis of the 2008 panel of the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) waves 8 to 11 (early 2011 to early 2012) followed a group of families who were assumed to be “eligible” for CCDF subsidies because they
Report to Congress

Welfare Indicators and Risk Factors, Fifteenth Report to Congress

This report provides welfare indicators through 2013 for most indicators and through 2014 for some indicators, reflecting changes that have taken place since enactment of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) in 1996.  The report analyzes the proportion of individuals who receive more than half of their total family income in one year from the Tempora

Later-Life Household Wealth Before and After Disability Onset

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Older Adults' Living Expenses and the Adequacy of Income Allowances for Medicaid Home and Community-Based Services

This brief assesses the adequacy of the income allowances granted to older Medicaid HCBS enrollees and their spouses.
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How Many Americans Were Really in Poverty in 1947? Estimates of the U.S. Poverty Population Between 1947 and 1963 Under Two Contemporary (1949 and 1959) Definitions of Poverty

TRIM: A Tool for Social Policy Analysis

Since the early 1970s, the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE) has used the Transfer Income Model (TRIM) to assess how social welfare programs affect family incomes and poverty. TRIM began as a tool to analyze proposed reforms to the nation’s cash welfare program during the Nixon administration.

Poverty in the United States: 50-Year Trends and Safety Net Impacts

Environmental Scan

Environmental Scan of Programs and Policies Addressing Health Disparities Among Rural Children in Poverty

About 12.9 million children live in rural communities, where they are more likely than their nonrural peers to experience health problems associated with their environment, their socioeconomic status, their own and their families’ health behaviors, and their access to quality clinical care.