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| Institution | Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Washington, DC. |
|---|---|
| Titel | Impact of Government Benefit Programs Declines, Adds to Number of Poor Families. |
| Quelle | (1987), (18 Seiten)
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| Sprache | englisch |
| Dokumenttyp | gedruckt; online; Monographie |
| Schlagwörter | Child Welfare; Economically Disadvantaged; Family Income; Federal Programs; Low Income Groups; Poverty Programs; Public Support; Retrenchment; Social Problems; Socioeconomic Influences; Welfare Recipients; Welfare Services |
| Abstract | The paper summarizes the results of an analysis of recently issued Census data. Examining the anti-poverty effectiveness of cash and non-cash benefit programs from 1979 to 1986, the analysis focuses on the impacts of those programs on families with children, the group whose poverty rate has risen most rapidly since 1979. The data reveal that government benefit programs now lift a smaller proportion of families with children out of poverty than they did in 1979. One-third of the increase in poverty among families with children since 1979 would not have occurred if government programs had as much impact today in removing families from poverty as the programs did in 1979. Among the factors accounting for the lessened impact of the programs are reductions in federal benefit programs through the early 1980s, the failure of states to increase benefits to keep up with inflation, changes in the economy that may have reduced the earnings of some poor families, and changes in the composition of the poverty population. There has been an underlying trend in the economy in which poor families are growing poorer and falling further below the poverty line. Charts and tables are included which summarize results and contain statistics on antipoverty program effectiveness. (PS) |
| Erfasst von | ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC |
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