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Publications

September 2005 Metropolitan America in the New Century: Metropolitan and Central City Demographic Shifts Since 2000
(Brookings Institution)
September 2005 Unhappy Anniversary
(Center on Budget and Policy Priorities)
August 2005 Economic Recovery Failed to Benefit Much of the Population in 2004
(Center on Budget and Policy Priorities)
August 2005 The Number of Uninsured Americans Continued to Rise in 2004
(Center on Budget and Policy Priorities)
August 2005 Low-Income Working Families: Facts and Figures
(Urban Institute)
June 2005 Alternative Poverty Measurements in the United States: 2003
(US Bureau of the Census)
June 2005 Poverty, Income, and Health Insurance Coverage Tables
(Center on Budget and Policy Priorities)
May 2005 How Will Recent Patterns of Earnings Inequality Affect Future Retirement Incomes?
(Urban Institute)
May 2005 Macroeconomic Performance and Poverty in the 1980s and 1990s: A State-Level Analysis
(Institute for Research on Poverty)
January 2005 Working Hard, Falling Short: Investing in California's Working Families
(California Budget Project)
January 2005 Receipt of Unemployment Insurance Among Unemployed Single Mothers
(US Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation)
January 2005 Income Poverty and Material Hardship: How Strong is the Association?
(National Poverty Center, University of Michigan)
December 2004 Hunger, Crowding and Hardships and Other Hardships Among Families in Poverty
(Center on Budget and Policy Priorities)
November 2004 Temporary Assistance for Needy Families: Sixth Annual Report to Congress
(US Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families)
November 2004 Low-Income Families in the States: Results from the Family Resource Simulator
(National Center for Children In Poverty)
November 2004 Lower Income Households Spend Largest Share of Income
(Urban Institute)
November 2004 Between Hope and Hard Times: NY's Working Families in Economic Distress
(Center for an Urban Future)
October 2004 Wages, Health Benefits, and Workers' Health
(Commonwealth Fund)
September 2004 Losing Ground: Income and Poverty in Upstate New York
(Brookings Institution)
September 2004 The State of Working California 2004: Little Progress for California’s Workers and Their Families
(California Budget Project)
August 2004 State Policies That Affect Working Families
(Urban Institute)
August 2004 Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2003
(US Bureau of the Census)
August 2004 Two Americas: One Rich, One Poor? Understanding Income Inequality in the United States
(Heritage Foundation)
August 2004 A Statistical Portrait of Well-Being in Early Adulthood
(Child Trends, Inc.)
August 2004 The Geography of Poverty and Service Provision
(Brookings Institution)
August 2004 The Shape of the Curve: Household Income Distributions in U.S. Cities: 1979-1999
(Brookings Institution)
August 2004 Women’s Economic Status in the States: Wide Disparities by Race, Ethnicity, and Region
(Institute for Women's Policy Research)
August 2004 The Who and Why of the Minimum Wage: Raising the wage floor is an essential part of a strategy to support working families
(Economic Policy Institute)
July 2004 Shape of the Curve: Household Income Distributions in Large Cities
(Brookings Institution)
July 2004 Low-Income Families in Pennsylvania: The Cost of Higher Earnings
(National Center for Children In Poverty)
July 2004 The War on Poverty after 40 years: A Minskyan Assessment
(Jerome Levy Economics Institute)
July 2004 Increasing the Minimum Wage: An Issue of Children's Well-being
(Children's Defense Fund)
July 2004 The Impacts of Household Wealth on Child Development
(George Washington University)
June 2004 Levy Institute Measure of Economic Well-Being: United States, 1989, 1995, 2000, and 2001
(Jerome Levy Economics Institute)
May 2004 Moving Public Assistance Recipients into the Labor Force, 1996-2001
(Economic Research Service, USDA)
May 2004 Low Income Children in the United States 2004
(National Center for Children In Poverty)
April 2004 Unequal Access: Insurance Instability Among Low-Income Workers and Minorities
(Commonwealth Fund)
March 2004 Relationship Between Tax Entry Thresholds and Poverty
(Urban Institute)
January 2004 Understanding Poverty in America
(Heritage Foundation)
December 2003 Geography of Low Income Families and Children
(National Center for Children In Poverty)
September 2003 The Changing Demographics of Low-Income Families and Their Children
(National Center for Children In Poverty)
September 2003 Filling the Poverty Gap, Then and Now
(University of Kentucky Center for Poverty Research)
September 2003 Poverty and Income in 2002
(Brookings Institution)
September 2003 Income Picture
(Economic Policy Institute)
September 2003 Poverty in the US: 2002
(US Bureau of the Census)
September 2003 State Policy Choices: Assets and Access to Public Assistance
(National Center for Children In Poverty)
September 2003 Benefits and Low Wage Work
(SEEDCO)
August 2003 Employment Alone Is Not Enough for America's Low Income Families and Children
(National Center for Children In Poverty)
August 2003 Policy Matters: Setting and Measuring Benchmarks for State Policies: Improving the Economic Success of Families
(Center for the Study of Social Policy)
August 2003 The Unprotected Recession: Record Numbers of Families Have No Work and No Welfare in 2001
(Children's Defense Fund)
July 2003 Before and After Welfare Reform: The Work and Well-being of Low-Income Single Parent Families
(Institute for Women's Policy Research)
July 2003 Escaping Low Earnings: The Role of Employer Characteristics and Changes
(Institute for Policy Research, Northwestern University)
July 2003 The Issues Behind the Outcomes for Somali, Hmong, American Indian, and African American Welfare Recipients
(Wilder Research Center)
May 2003 Managing to Parent: Social Support, Social Capital, and Parenting Practices among Welfare-Participating Mothers with Young Children
(Institute for Research on Poverty)
May 2003 Poor Families in 2001: Parents Working Less and Children Continue to Lag Behind
(Child Trends, Inc.)
May 2003 What’s New in 2002? A Snapshot of Head Start Children, Families, Teachers, and Programs
(Center for Law and Social Policy)
May 2003 Harworth Press Working, But Poor: California's Working Families that Fail to Make Ends Meet
(California Budget Project)
April 2003 Built to Last: Why Skills Matter for Long-Run Success in Welfare Reform
(Center for Law and Social Policy)
April 2003 Welfare, Women and Health: The Role of Temporary Assistance for Needy Families
(Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation)
March 2003 Extended Measures of Well Being: Living Conditions in the United States: 1998
(US Bureau of the Census)
January 2003 Welfare Reform, Earnings, and Income: New Evidence from the Survey of Program Dynamics
(Joint Center for Poverty Research)
December 2002 Welfare Reform and Women's Health
(Journal of the American Medical Women's Association)
October 2002 Help or Hurdles? Experiences of Welfare Leavers in the South Bronx Accessing Subsidized Child Care
(Community Service Society of New York)
September 2002 Analysis Of Census Bureau's Poverty and Income Data For 2001
(Center on Budget and Policy Priorities)
September 2002 Money Income in the United States: 2001
(US Bureau of the Census)
September 2002 Number of Workers Who Have Exhausted Unemployment Insurance Benefits Passes the One Million Mark
(Center on Budget and Policy Priorities)
September 2002 Poverty in New York, 2001
(Community Service Society of New York)
September 2002 Poverty in the United States: 2001
(US Bureau of the Census)
September 2002 Single Mothers' Employment, Earnings, and Poverty in the Age of Welfare Reform
(Community Service Society of New York)
July 2002 Behind the Numbers: Trends in Poverty for Families with Children
(Center on Urban Poverty and Social Change, Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, Case Western Reserve)
June 2002 Poverty in America: Beyond Welfare Reform
(Population Reference Bureau)
May 2002 Life After Welfare Reform: Low-Income Single Parent Families , Pre- and Post-TANF
(Institute for Women's Policy Research)
May 2002 Welfare Rolls No Longer in Rapid Decline
(Brookings Institution)
April 2002 Measuring the Well-Being of the Poor: Demographics of Low-Income Households
(Economic Research Service, USDA)
April 2002 Moving Up Is A Steep Climb
(Annie E. Casey Foundation)
April 2002 Pulling Apart: A State-By-State Analysis of Income Trends
(Center on Budget and Policy Priorities)
March 2002 Former Welfare Families Need More Help: Hardships Await Those Making Transition to Workforce
(Economic Policy Institute)
February 2002 Before and after TANF: The Economic Well-Being of Women Leaving Welfare
(Institute for Research on Poverty)
January 2002 Family Well-Being After Welfare Reform
(Welfare Reform Academy, University of Maryland, School of Public Affairs)
January 2002 Keeping Jobs and Raising Families in Low Income America: It Just Doesn't Work
(Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study)
January 2002 A Decade of Welfare Reform: What We've Learned About Welfare Usage and Economic Outcomes
(RAND)
December 2001 Does Federalism Have a Future?
(Brookings Institution)
November 2001 Welfare Reform Four Years Later: Progress and Prospects
(Federal Reserve Bank of NY)
October 2001 Experimental Poverty Measures: 1999
(US Bureau of the Census)
September 2001 Deepening Disparity Income Inequality in New York City
(Public/Private Ventures)
September 2001 Money Income in the United States: 2000
(US Bureau of the Census)
September 2001 Poverty in the United States: 2000
(US Bureau of the Census)
September 2001 Poverty Rates Fell in 2000 as Unemployment Reached 31-Year Low
(Center on Budget and Policy Priorities)
September 2001 Preparing to Measure Welfare Reform: Using the Longitudinal Survey of Program Dynamics: 2001
(US Bureau of the Census)
September 2001 Welfare Reform: An Examination of Effects
(US House of Representatives)
August 2001 Poverty Trends for Families Headed by Working Single Mothers
(Center on Budget and Policy Priorities)
August 2001 Status Report on the Occasion of the Fifth Anniversary of the 1996 Personal Responsibility Welfare Reform Act
(Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government)
August 2001 Weighing In On Welfare
(Chronicle of Philanthropy)
August 2001 Welfare Reform After 5 Years: Through the Eyes of Former Welfare Recipients & Reporters
(Brookings Institution)
August 2001 Welfare Reform and Household Saving
(Joint Center for Poverty Research)
July 2001 Jobs and Wages Up Sharply for Single Moms, Gains Especially High After Welfare Reform
(Urban Institute)
July 2001 Status Report on Research on the Outcomes of Welfare Reform
(US Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation)
July 2001 Welfare Reform and Poverty
(Brookings Institution)
July 2001 Welfare Reform's Impact on Adolescents: Early Warning Signs
(Child Trends, Inc.)
June 2001 After Welfare Reform: Trends in Poverty and Emergency Service Use in Massachusetts
(John W McCormack Institute of Public Affairs)
June 2001 Welfare Reform's Impact on the Failure Rate of Nonprofit Human Services Providers
(Urban Institute)
June 2001 Employers and Welfare Recipients: The Effects of Welfare Reform in the Workplace
(Public Policy Institute of California)
April 2001 From D.C. to Des Moines - the Progress of Welfare Reform
(National Conference of State Legislatures)
April 2001 The National Survey on Poverty in America
(Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation)
March 2001 Indicators of Welfare Dependence: Annual Report to Congress, 2001
(US Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation)
March 2001 The Status of Welfare Reform in the District of Columbia
(Center on Budget and Policy Priorities)
February 2001 The State of Welfare Reform Research
(Joint Center for Poverty Research)
February 2001 Welfare Reform: Data Available to Assess TANF's Progress
(US Government Accountability Office)
January 2001 Welfare Reform: An Overview of Effects to Date
(Brookings Institution)
January 2001 Prevention of Welfare Dependency -- An Overview
(Welfare Information Network of the Finance Project)
January 2001 Welfare Reform: A Record of Pluses and Minuses
(Stateline.org)
2001 Hardships in America: The Real Story of Working Families
(Economic Policy Institute)
December 2000 Alternative Outcome Measures: Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) Block Grant
(US Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation)
December 2000 Hunger and Homelessness in America's Cities
(US Conference of Mayors)
December 2000 Status of Research on the Outcomes of Welfare Reform
(US Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation)
November 2000 Staff Analysis of the State of New York's Welfare Evaluation Report: After Welfare: A Study of Work and Benefit Use After Case Closings
(NY State Office of the State Comptroller)
October 2000 The New Face of Welfare
(The Midwest Welfare Peer Assistance Network)
September 2000 Poverty in the United States in 1999
(US Bureau of the Census)
August 2000 Struggle for Self-Sufficiency: Impact of Welfare Reform on Families With Children in Kansas
(Kansas Action for Children)
June 2000 Welfare Reform--Four Years Later
(Welfare Reform Academy, University of Maryland, School of Public Affairs)
June 2000 Welfare Reform: Next Steps Offer New Opportunities
(Center for Law and Social Policy)
March 2000 Idea Brief: A Plan for Increasing Personal Savings
(Century Foundation)
March 2000 Welfare College Students: Measuring the Impact of Welfare Reform
(Jerome Levy Economics Institute)
March 2000 What has Welfare Reform Accomplished? Impacts on Welfare Participation, Employment, Income, Poverty, and Family Structure (Robert F. Schoeni, Rebecca M. Blank)
(National Bureau of Economic Research)
February 2000 Welfare Reform and Beyond: Making Work Work
(Committee for Economic Development)
January 2000 Windows of Opportunity: Strategies to Support Families Receiving Welfare and Other Low-Income Families in the Next Stage of Welfare Reform
(Center on Budget and Policy Priorities)
September 1999 The Widening Income Gap
(Center on Budget and Policy Priorities)
August 1999 Average Incomes of Very Poor Families Fell During Early Years of Welfare Reform, Study Finds
(Center on Budget and Policy Priorities)
August 1999 Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) Program: Second Annual Report to Congress
(US Department of Health and Human Services)
July 1999 Working Hard But Staying Poor: A National Survey of the Working Poor and Unemployed
(Heldrich Center for Workforce Development, Rutgers University)
August 1998 Welfare Reform: Early Fiscal Effects of the TANF Block Grant
(US Government Accountability Office)
June 1998 Welfare Reform: States Are Restructuring Programs To Reduce Welfare Dependence
(US Government Accountability Office)
June 1997 What Works, For Whom? Learning from the Experience of Welfare Reform
(Joint Center for Poverty Research)
  State-by-State Rates of Household Hunger and Food Insecurity, 1997-1999
(Food Research and Action Center)
  Disadvantage among Families Remaining on Welfare
(Joint Center for Poverty Research)
  Economic Conditions and Welfare Reform
(W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research)
  Family Economic Resources in the Post-Reform Era
(David and Lucile Packard Foundation)
  From Caseload Reduction to Poverty Reduction
(Joint Center for Poverty Research)
  2001 HHS Poverty Guidelines
(US Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation)
  Health, United States, 2001, with Urban and Rural Health Chartbook
(US Department of Health and Human Services)
  Incomplete Picture of Poverty in the U.S., Researchers Find
(Joint Center for Poverty Research)
  Monitoring the Effects of Pre- and Post-TANF Welfare Reform Initiatives
  Progress of Women and Minorities in the Illinois Workforce
(Illinois Department of Labor)
  Recent Changes in U.S. Family Finances: Results from the 1998 Survey of Consumer Finances
(Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System)
  State of the States Report, 2002
(National Priorities Project)
  Annual TANF Report to Congress
(US Department of Health and Human Services)
  Wage Growth Among Low-Skilled Workers
(Joint Center for Poverty Research)
  Welfare and the Working Poor in a Battered Economy--Meeting Transcript
(Urban Institute)
  Welfare Reform and Its Consequences: What Questions Are Left Unanswered?
(Joint Center for Poverty Research)
  What Comes After Welfare Reform?
(Center on Hunger and Poverty)
  When Work Just Isn't Enough
(Economic Policy Institute)
  Work First Works: Reassessing California's GAIN Welfare-to-Work Program
(Joint Center for Poverty Research)
  Work, Welfare and Politics: Confronting Poverty in the Wake of Welfare Reform
(University of Oregon)
  Health, United States Annual Report
(Center for Disease Control and Prevention)

 
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