Poverty & Income Dynamics

The Welfare Indicators Act of 1994 requires the Department of Health and Human Services to prepare annual reports to Congress on indicators and predictors of welfare dependence.  This Annual Report on Welfare Indicators, October 1998 is the second of these annual reports.

This paper explains differences between the counts of persons in poverty as published by the Census Bureau, and the counts one gets when doing a simple tabulation of the public use CPS file. (ASPE Research Notes, Volume 20) [5 PDF pages]

This article appeared in the American Rehabilitation (Volume 24, Number 3, pp27-30). [14 PDF pages]

    Indicators of Welfare Dependence  

The Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation sponsored an expert meeting on research related to personal assistance services (PAS). This day long meeting was the first of three expert meetings on disability topic areas that DALTCP is considering for inclusion in its research agenda.

The Seattle-Denver Income Maintenance Experiment (SIME/DIME) was the last in a series of four, large-scale income maintenance experiments undertaken in the late 1960s and early 1970s to measure the disincentive effects of cash transfers on the market work of those eligible for them.

Prepared by: R. William Thomas Abt Associates Prepared for: Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation Department of Health, Education, and Welfare Contract:  HEW-100-76-0179 Each chapter of the Report is in PDF format.  Download a copy of the reader.