Poverty and Income
2008
HHS Poverty Guidelines
This is the 2009 version of the federal poverty measure, published annually by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Catholic
Campaign for Human Development
The Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD), through a variety of outreach efforts throughout the United States, works to help Americans break free from poverty. The CCHD website includes a wealth of information on the state of poverty in the United States, including a brief but effective tour of poverty.
Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance Coverage in
the United States: 2008
This report, issued in September 2009 by the U.S. Census Bureau, presents data on income, poverty, and health insurance coverage in the United States based on information collected in the 2009 and earlier Annual Social and Economic Supplements (ASEC) to the Current Population Survey (CPS) conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau.
Joint
Center for Poverty Research
The Joint Center for Poverty Research (JCPR) is an interdisciplinary research center that seeks to advance the understanding of what it means to be poor in America. JCPR is a joint project of Northwestern University and the University of Chicago. Visit JCPR's website for publications on the issue of poverty in America.
National
Center for Children in Poverty
The National Center for Children in Poverty (NCCP) identifies and promotes strategies that prevent child poverty in the United States and that improve the lives of low-income children and their families. It conducts and synthesizes relevant research to meet the needs of key audiences that work on issues affecting low-income families. NCCP also provides an extensive list of publications as well as demographic, state, and local information on child poverty in the U.S.
National
Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty
The mission of the National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty (NLCHP) is to prevent and end homelessness by serving as the legal arm of the nationwide movement to end homelessness. To achieve its mission, NLCHP pursues three main strategies: impact litigation, policy advocacy, and public education. Visit NLCHP's website for valuable resources in the areas of housing, income, children and youth, civil rights, and domestic violence.
Poverty and Potential: Out-of-School Factors and School Success
This March 2009 brief by Dr. David C. Berliner of Arizona State University and supported by The Great Lakes Center for Education Research and Practice explores the role poverty plays in the achievement gap between lower income and middle income students and between racial and ethnic groups; the report concludes that poverty is, in fact, the major cause of the achievement gap.
Rural
Children At A Glance
This study by the USDA's Economic Research Service provides compelling facts about rural child poverty.
The Effects of Government Taxes and Transfers on Income and Poverty: 2004
This report, issued in February 2006 by the U.S. Census Bureau, examines poverty in America using four alternative methods for defining and calculating the U.S. poverty rate.
Two
Steps Back: City and Suburban Poverty Trends 1999-2005
This December 2006 report from The Brookings Institution provides an analysis of poverty in cities and suburbs of the nation's 100 largest metropolitan areas based on data from the 2005 American Community Survey and Census 2000.
Understanding
Recent Changes in Child Poverty
This report, published by the Urban Institute in August 2006, examines trends in child poverty in the United States over the last 10 years and analyzes the factors contributing to the trends.
U.S.
Census Bureau: Poverty
This portion of the U.S. Census Bureau website provides information about poverty in the United States, including poverty thresholds, methods for measuring poverty, and historical tables.
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