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See also: The
Green Book by the Committe
on Ways and Means of the U.S. House of Representatives.
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HHS Poverty Guidelines, Research,
and Measurement web site.
This site contains the current and past poverty guidelines, which
are used to determine eligibility for a number of government programs, as
well as research papers, references, and poverty-related information links.
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Measures of Material
Hardship: Final Report, April 2004.
This report summarizes what is known about the measurement of material hardship
and its application to research with low-income families with children. It
discusses challenges in defining and measuring material hardship, reviews
how such measures have been in recent research, and presents analyses of
data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP). The report,
prepared by Tammy Ouellette, Nancy Burstein, David Long, and Erik Beecroft
of Abt Associates, is a follow-up to an ASPE-sponsored roundtable meeting.
Full Report in PDF format.
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The Interactions of Workers and
Firms in the Low-Wage Labor Market, December 2002.
This paper presents an analysis of workers who have a history of persistently
low earnings in the past. Some of these workers manage to escape from this
low-earning status over subsequent years, while many do not. Using data from
the Longitudinal Employer Household Dynamics (LEHD) program at the U.S. Census
Bureau, the study analyzes the characteristics of workers as well as employers
that enable some low-wage workers to improve their earnings status over time.
This report was prepared by Fredrik Andersson, Harry Holzer, and Julia Lane
of the Census Bureau and the Urban Institute.
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Study to Examine UI Eligibility
Among Former TANF Recipients: Evidence from New Jersey, November
2002.
This study examines the extent to which former TANF recipients who leave
welfare and find jobs would be potentially eligible for Unemployment Insurance
(UI) in case of job loss, considering both monetary and nonmonetary eligibility,
as well as potential benefit levels. The study also examines how many former
TANF recipients who found jobs and eventually lost jobs actually file UI
claims and receive payments. The report, prepared by Anu Rangarajan, Carol
Razafindrakoto, and Walter Corson of Mathematica Policy Research, is
based on 2,000 welfare recipients who received TANF in New Jersey during
the first 18 months under the new welfare rules, between July 1997 and December
1998.
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Studies of Welfare Populations,
Data Collection and Research Issues, 2002.
The 14 papers in this volume are intended as a guide and reference tool for
researchers and program administrators seeking to improve the availability
and quality of data on welfare and low-income populations for state-level,
as well as national-level, analysis. The papers resulted from an ASPE-funded
Panel Study with the Committee on National Statistics (CNSTAT) of the National
Academy of Sciences, to evaluate the design of current, proposed, and future
studies of the effects of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity
Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) of 1996. Prepared by Michele Ver Ploeg, Robert
A. Moffitt, and Constance F. Citro, editors.
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Transition Events in the Dynamics
of Poverty, September 2002.
This project addressed transition events associated with people entering
and exiting poverty using data from the Survey of Income and Program
Participation (SIPP) and the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID). The study
found that poverty entries and exits changed over the past two decades, with
an increase in both poverty entries and exits (i.e., "cycling") in the mid
1990s. Descriptive analysis shows that individuals who experience a shift
in household structure (i.e., from a two-parent to a single female household,
or vice versa) are the most likely to enter or exit poverty; however, when
controlling for important demographic and economic factors, the likelihood
of entering or exiting poverty is highest for individuals experiencing employment
shifts. Signe-Mary McKernan and Caroline Ratcliffe of the Urban Institute
prepared the report.
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How Well Have Rural and Small Metropolitan Labor
Markets Absorbed Welfare Recipients?, April 2001.
This report examines the impact of welfare reform on 12 rural and small
metropolitan areas around the country. It identifies changes in wages and
employment for the low-skill labor force over two periods: 1993 to 1996,
and 1996 to 1998, to determine the effect of the movement of welfare recipients
to work. The report was prepared by The Lewin Group.
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The Low-Wage Labor
Market: Challenges and Opportunities for Economic
Self-Sufficiency, December 1999.
In this volume, experts in labor market analysis synthesize the current
literature on the low-wage labor market and highlight policy implications
flowing from their review. Demetra Smith Nightingale, Urban Institute,
and Kelleen Kaye, ASPE, edited the volume of nine papers.
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Overview of the Final Report of the Seattle-Denver
Income Maintenance Experiment (SIME/DIME), May 1983.
This report summarizes the Final Report of the SIME/DIME negative income
tax experiments. While the results on marital stability were the most
controversial at the time, the labor supply effects have been of more enduring
interest. The labor supply results are quite complex: the average
annual reduction in hours worked was very roughly 9% (men) or 20% (women),
but most people did not change their work effort at all, rather a small number
reduced their work effort a relatively large amount. Even those that
did reduce their work effort, did not reduce the hours worked on a particular
job, but rather lengthened the time between jobs. The Overview explains
in detail these and many other findings from these major social
experiments. Written by staff of the Office of Income Security Policy
[now Human Services Policy] of ASPE.
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