Characteristics of Poverty
The Well-Being of Children in Working Poor and Other Families: 1997 and 2004 (PDF)
Richard Wertheimer, Kristin Anderson Moore and Mary Burkhauser, Child Trends, September 2008
Urban and Rural Children Experience Similar Rates of Low-Income and Poverty (pdf)
Allison Churilla, The Carsey Institute, August 2008
Survey of Low-Wage Workers
The Washington Post,the Kaiser Family Foundation and Harvard University, August 2008
Young Men Are Still Economically Better Off Than Young Women
Timothy Casey,Legal Momentum, June 2008
"Child Care Use by Low-Income Families: Variations Across States (pdf)”
Laura Lippman, Sharon Vandivere, Julie Keith, and Astrid Atienza,Child Trends, June 2008
Growing Disparities in Life Expectancy
Congressional Budget Office, April 17, 2008
"Conservative Protestants and Wealth: How Religion Perpetuates Asset Poverty”
Lisa A. Keister, Duke University, American Journal of Sociology , University of Chicago, March 2008
Child Poverty and Family Economic Hardship: 10 Important Questions
National Center for Children in Poverty
Children’s Stake in Social Security
Joni Lavery and Virginia P. Reno, National Academy of Social Insurance, February 2007
Has U.S. Income Inequality Really Increased?
Alan Reynolds, Cato Institute, January 2007
Persistent Poverty and Place: How Do Persistent Poverty and Poverty Demographics Vary Across the Rurual-Urband Continuum
Kathleen K. Miller, Mindy S. Crandall, and Bruce A. Weber, 2002
The New Poor: Regional Trends in Child Poverty Since 2000
Heather Koball and Ayana Douglas-Hall, August 2006
Income, Poverty and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2006
Carmen DeNavas-Walt, Bernadette D. Proctor, Jessica Smith, U.S. Census Bureau, August 2007
Poverty in America: A Threat to the Common Good
Catholic Charities USA
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