Title Trends in welfare, work and the economic well-being of female-headed families with children / Thomas Gabe

Published New York : Novinka Books, [2003] ©2003

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Description vii, 57 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm Contents Ch. 1. Introduction -- Ch. 2. Overview -- Ch. 3. Single Mothers' Employment Rates -- Ch. 4. Welfare Receipt among Single Mothers -- Ch. 5. Poor Single Mothers' Work and Welfare Status -- Ch. 6. Effects of Earnings, Transfers, and Taxes on Single Mothers' Poverty Status -- Effect of Earnings and other Nonwelfare Cash Income on Poverty -- Effect of Cash Welfare on Poverty -- The Effect on Poverty of Counting Selected Income Sources not Included in the "Official" Poverty Measure -- Ch. 7. Degree of Poverty among Poor Single Mothers -- Sources and Level of Income among Lower-Income Single Mothers -- Conclusions and Policy Implications -- App. A. Cash Welfare Under-Reporting on the CPS -- App. B. Family Income to Poverty Ration - Cutoffs for Income Quintiles -- App. C. Support Tables Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Subject Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (Program) Women heads of households -- United States. Fatherless families -- United States. Single mothers -- United States -- Economic conditions. Welfare recipients -- Employment -- United States. Public welfare -- United States. LC no. 2002032914 ISBN 1590335082

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