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| References |
| Research Databases for Journal Articles |
| Internet Sources |
| Statistics from Government |
Economic assistance, Domestic -- United States
Food Relief
Food Stamp Program
Food Stamps
Homeless Children
Homeless Persons
Homelessness
Income distribution -- United States
Income distribution -- United States -- Statistics.
Poor United States
Poor -- United States -- Statistics.
Poor Children United States
Poor Women
Poverty
Public Welfare
Rural Poor
Single-parent families -- Economic aspects -- United States
Social Classes United States
Social Status
Social Security
United States -- Social policy
Urban poor -- United States.
Welfare recipients
Women -- Economic conditions.
Women -- Social conditions.
About children / senior editors, Arthur G. Cosby ... [et al.]. Ref HQ792.U5 A515 2005
Aging : lifestyles, work, and money / Elizabeth Vierck and Kris Hodges Ref HQ1064.U5 V493 2005
America's children : key national indicators of well-being / Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics. Ref HQ792.U5 A44 2003
Black Americans : a statistical sourcebook / Louise L. Hornor, editor Ref E185 .B57 2001
Encyclopedia of American social history / Mary Kupiec Cayton, Elliott J. Gorn, Peter W. Williams, editors. Ref HN57 .E58 1992 v.1-3
Encyclopedia of family life / editor, Carl L. Bankston III ; project editor, R. Kent Rasmussen Ref HQ534 .E53 1999 v.1-5
Human development report 2006 : beyond scarcity : power, poverty and the global water crisis / edited by United Nations Development Program. Ref HD72 .H85 2006
Hunger and learning / United Nations World Food Programme Ref HV696.F6 H793 2006
Poverty in the United States : an encyclopedia of history, politics, and policy / edited by Gwendolyn Mink and Alice O'Connor. Ref HC110.P6 P598 2004 v.1-2
Progress of the world's women 2005 : women, work, & poverty / Martha Chen ... [et al.].
Social issues in America : an encyclopedia / James Ciment, editor. Ref HN57 .S624 2006 v.1-7
Social policy : essential primary sources / K. Lee Lerner, Brenda Wilmoth Lerner, and Adrienne Wilmoth Lerner, editors. Ref HN57 .S6243 2006
Statistical abstract of the United States / prepared by the chief of the Bureau of Statistics, Treasury Department. Ref HA202 .S83 2007 Online Version
Statistical handbook on the American family / edited by Bruce A. Chadwick and Tim B. Heaton Ref HQ536 .S727 1999
A Statistical portrait of the United States : social conditions and trends / edited by Mark S. Littman ; [contributors: Mark S. Littman ... [et. al.]]. Ref HA214 .S73 1998
The state of the world's children. Ref HQ792.2 .S73 2004
Trends in the well-being of America's children and youth / U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation. Ref HQ792.U5 T73 2002
World poverty : a reference handbook / Geoffrey Gilbert Ref HC59.72.P6 G53 2004
The world's women, 2005 : progress in statistics. Ref HQ1154 .W95 2006
Research Databases for Journal Articles
- Academic Search Complete [info][RefWorks help]
- CQ Researcher [info]
- Contemporary Women's Issues 1992-2006 [info][RefWorks help]
- Gender Studies Database [info] [RefWorks help]
- Lexis-Nexis Academic
- Social Sciences Citation Index (ISI Web of Science) [info] [Tutorial] [RefWorks help]
- Sociological Abstracts 1963-2005 [RefWorks help]
- SocINDEX With Full Text [info] [RefWorks help]
- Women's Studies International [info][RefWorks help]
- World Development Indicators [notice]
- Child Poverty Facts (National Center for Children in Poverty)
- Institute for Research on Poverty
- Poverty in America: Beyond Welfare Reform (2002)
- Poverty and Income Distribution [Center on Budget and Policy Priorities]
- Public opinion surveys: Public Agenda: Poverty & Welfare
- Windows on Urban Poverty
- It explores the concentration of poverty in the United States and offers an interactive mapping tool which includes data for the 1970-2000 censuses.
Statistics from the Government
- American Factfinder, 1990
and 2000
- Poverty by demographic and economic characteristics for states, counties, cities, census tracts, and, at times, the block group levels
- Alternative poverty estimates in the United States, 2003 [electronic resource] / by Joseph Dalaker.
- Areas with Concentrated Poverty: 1999 (Census tract data)
- The cost of living and the geographic distribution of poverty [electronic resource] / Dean Jolliffe.
- Children in Poverty
- County-level
poverty rates for Ohio [electronic resource]
- City, County, and State data: Demographic
Profiles: Census 2000
- This site gives poverty data for every state, county, and city. After selecting state and city, go to page 3 of report for INCOME and POVERTY data.
- Small Area Income & Poverty Estimates Model-based Estimates for States, Counties & School Districts (Census Bureau)
- Current Population
Survey Table Creator
- Create your own table of poverty status by state and any variety of demographic characteristis, 2003+
- City, County, and State data: Demographic
Profiles: Census 2000
- Custodial Mothers and Fathers and Their Child Support: 2003
- Department of Labor's Women's Bureau's statistics
- Domestic Poverty CQ Researcher (09/07/2007)
- The
Green Book
- Standard reference work for U.S. social policy information. Program descriptions and historical data on social and economic topics including Social Security, employment, earnings, welfare, child support, health insurance, the elderly, families with children, poverty and taxation. Published every one to two years. (Official title: Background Material and Data on Major Programs within the Jurisdiction of the Committee on Ways and Means.)
- Historical Poverty Tables - Current Population Survey
- Income, Poverty,
and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States 2006
- Income Stable, Poverty Up, Numbers of Americans With and Without Health Insurance Rise (August 2004) (Census Bureau)
- Income of the Aged Chartbook
- Income of the Population 55 and Older
- Measuring the Well-Being of the Poor: Demographics of Low-Income Households (2002)
- Poverty In The United States 2002.
- Poverty Guidelines, Research, and Measurement
- Trends: Measuring 50 years of economic change : using the March Current Population Survey
- Understanding
Mobility in America (2006)
- probabilities of moving into higher and lower income brackets (by race and income quintile), family characteristics (education, race, gender of head of household, size), income unpredictability (over time and by quintile), and more.
- Working poor: A Profile of the Working Poor, 2003
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