ISSUE GUIDES: Poverty and Welfare
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- Poverty thresholds, by size of family
- Poverty rate
- Poverty rate, by family status
- Poverty rate by race and ethnicity
- Poverty rate higher for children than adults
- State-by-state poverty rate
- Income gap between richest and poorest
- Average income of the poorest Americans fluctuates
- Value of minimum wage
- Federal expenditures on major anti-poverty programs
- States' use of federal funds
- Most TANF beneficiaries are children
- Race of TANF recipients
- Most adult TANF recipients are not married
- Most TANF adults do not work
- Most TANF recipients are between 20- and 40-years-old
- Number of people receiving AFDC/TANF or food stamps
- Percentage of people receiving AFDC/TANF or food stamps
- Change in TANF caseloads since enactment of welfare reform
- Medicaid enrollment growth
- Medicaid: recipients and expenditures
- Birth rate of unmarried women levels off
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