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Balance Sheets of Low-Income Households:
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What We Know about Their Assets and Liabilities |
Author(s): Adam Carasso and Signe-Mary McKernan |
Organization(s): The Urban Institute |
This report synthesizes current research and other available information on the assets and liabilities of low-income households into a variety of portraits. These data allow practitioners and researchers to begin to form a comprehensive representation of the balance sheets of low-income households. |
Published: November, 2007 |
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Marital and Unmarried Births to Men:
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Complex Patterns of Fatherhood, Evidence from the National Survey of Family Growth, 2002 |
Author(s): Steven L. Nock |
Organization(s): ASPE |
This ASPE research brief suggests that for most men, fatherhood is restricted to marriage. A significant fraction of men, however, have complex fertility patterns including un-married births, but also mixtures of marital, cohabiting, and single births. A man's pattern of births is related to a wide range of social and economic circumstances. Importantly, a man's status at the time his first child is born is very strongly related to his marital status when his other children are born. |
Published: April, 2007 |
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Obesity and American Indians/Alaska Natives
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Author(s): Peggy Halpern |
Organization(s): ASPE Staff |
This report provides information that will help to understand the high rates of obesity among AI/ANs and the nature of preventive interventions and their efficacy. The report contains a literature review that includes research findings pertaining to the prevalence, determinants, and consequences of obesity, and the nature and outcomes of clinical and community-based interventions. Information in the report also addresses activities undertaken by selected federal agencies pertaining to obesity and AI/ANs, a summary of a site visit to the Gila River Indian Community, and directions for future research. |
Published: April, 2007 |
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Data on Health and Well-being of American Indians, Alaska Natives, and Other Native Americans
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Data Catalog |
Organization(s): Westat |
This data catalog is a compilation of existing data sources pertaining to American Indian/Alaska Native/Native American (AI/AN/NA) populations. In the first component of this project, the contractor has identified existing sources of socioeconomic and health data using national and some state-level surveys. Information on 68 data sources including their characteristics and limitations is included in the catalog. This data catalog is a valuable reference for researchers, analysts and policymakers interested in AI/AN/NA issues. |
Published: December, 2006 |
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Barriers to American Indian/Alaska Native/Native American Access to DHHS Programs
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Organization(s): Westat |
The purpose of this project was to increase understanding of the programmatic and administrative barriers preventing American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native American (AI/AN/NA) communities from more fully participating in those HHS grants programs for which they are eligible. This study gathered information on the perspectives of both HHS program officials and tribal representatives on funding barriers and related issues, identified for HHS the most significant barriers to grants access for AI/AN/NAs, and considered strategies for improving access. The main components of this project included a survey of, and focus group with, HHS officials, discussions with representatives of AI/AN/NA groups, and consultations with an HHS-tribal workgroup at each juncture of the project. Lessons learned about reducing barriers to funding in other recent HHS initiatives targeting special populations informed the study. |
Published: March, 2006 |
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Operating TANF:
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Opportunities and Challenges for Tribes and Tribal Consortia |
Author(s): Walter Hillabrant and Mack B. Rhoades, Jr. Nancy Pindus |
Organization(s): Mathematica Policy Research. |
This report, fromf HHS' congressionally mandated evaluation of DOL's Welfare-to-Work Grants Program, describes the challenges and successes of ten tribal grantees in planning, implementing, and operating tribal TANF, the tribal welfare program with the most participants and the largest budget. Main findings address the process by which tribes make the decision to operate a tribal TANF program, the importance of a coordinated TANF plan, strategies for transitioning the program from state to tribal control, administrative and reporting challenges, and successes in adapting the program to reflect tribal cultural needs and values. |
Published: August, 2003 |
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Adoption Dynamics:
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Comparative Results for Subpopulations |
Author(s): Fred H. Wulczyn |
Organization(s): Chapin Hall Center for Children at the University of Chicago |
Using data from the Multistate Foster Care Data Archive, this study examines whether, as the pace of adoptions accelerated during the 1990s, certain demographic subpopulations experienced more change than others. The interest in subgroups reflects a desire to better understand differences that define the experiences of children within the foster care system. The analysis finds that (1) all subgroups reflected an increased likelihood of adoption per unit time; (2) children from urban areas, African-American children, and children living in kinship homes experienced the greatest increases in the likelihood of adoption; and (3) African-American children from urban areas living in kinship homes showed the most significant change of all, although these children continue to move more slowly to adoption than other children. |
Published: November, 2002 |
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TANF "Leavers" and Diversion Studies
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Preliminary Analysis of Racial Differences in Caseload Trends and Leaver Outcomes |
Author(s): Elizabeth Lower-Basch |
Organization(s): ASPE |
The strong United States economy during the late 1990s and changes in welfare and tax policy in the mid-1990s have combined to reduce welfare rolls to their lowest level in decades. There is some concern, however, that minorities are not sharing equally in the benefits of these changes. This paper discusses trends in national data on both poverty rates and welfare receipt over the past 15 years. It then examines some preliminary evidence from state and national studies of families leaving welfare and uses them to generate some hypotheses to explain the trends. |
Published: December, 2000 |
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Extending the Utility of Federal Data Bases
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Author(s): Joseph Waksberg, Daniel Levine, David Marker |
Organization(s): Westat |
These two reports assess the capability of several federal surveys to provide data on major subgroups of Hispanic and Asian or Pacific Islanders (e.g. Mexican-Americans, Puerto Ricans, Chinese, and Filipinos) and on American Indian or Alaska Natives (AIANs). The Task 2 Report: Inventory of Selected Existing Federal Databases, May 2000, contains an inventory of major databases used by HHS analysts with information about how the race/ethnicity response categories were designed, interviewing policies, sample sizes, and publication policies. The Task 3 Report: Extending the Utility of Federal Databases, May 2000, assesses the ability of the databases to provide data of adequate precision on selected Hispanic and API subgroups and AIANs. The report also suggests and evaluates methods to enhance the ability of surveys to provide reasonably reliable statistics about these populations. |
Published: May, 2000 |
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Inventory of Selected Existing Federal Databases
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Author(s): Joseph Waksberg, Daniel Levine, David Marker |
Organization(s): Westat |
These two reports assess the capability of several federal surveys to provide data on major subgroups of Hispanic and Asian or Pacific Islanders (e.g. Mexican-Americans, Puerto Ricans, Chinese, and Filipinos) and on American Indian or Alaska Natives (AIANs). The Task 2 Report: Inventory of Selected Existing Federal Databases, May 2000, contains an inventory of major databases used by HHS analysts with information about how the race/ethnicity response categories were designed, interviewing policies, sample sizes, and publication policies. The Task 3 Report: Extending the Utility of Federal Databases, May 2000, assesses the ability of the databases to provide data of adequate precision on selected Hispanic and API subgroups and AIANs. The report also suggests and evaluates methods to enhance the ability of surveys to provide reasonably reliable statistics about these populations. |
Published: May, 2000 |
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