Poverty and Single Parent Families: A Study of Minimal Subsistance Household Budgets

Poverty and Single Parent Families: A Study of Minimal Subsistance Household Budgets
ISBN-10
081533172X
ISBN-13
9780815331728
Category
Business & Economics
Pages
162
Language
English
Published
1998
Publisher
Taylor & Francis
Author
Trudi J. Renwick

Description

Addressing the need to recalculate the poverty rate for single parent families, this updated dissertation describes and critiques the methods used by the Census Bureau to conduct the official poverty headcount each year. It then offers a framework for the development of an alternative approach, the Basic Needs Budget, to establish more accurate poverty rates and uses the BNB to statistically analyze the 1996 welfare reform in depth. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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