This issue brief is from the Alliance to End Homelessness, and offers estimates on homelessness among the elderly. The Alliance estimates that the amount of elderly in homelessness will increase by 33 percent in the next 10 years and increase by…

The Annie E. Casey Foundation authored this issue brief on improving access to benefits for low-income families. As a result of the current economic recession, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act increased resources such as food stamps,…

From the Institute for Research on Poverty and researchers at Columbia University, this article provides information on the status of low-income men. Since the mid-1970s, wages and labor force participation has been decreasing for young, lesser…

The Choice Neighborhoods Initiative is an initiative through the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to transform neighborhoods of extreme poverty and distressed housing into mixed-income communities. From the Urban Institute,…

From the Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, this report provides findings from the implementation evaluation of Head Start programs that participated in the "I Am Moving, I Am Learning"…

This study assessed the relationship between the stage of breast cancer diagnosis and the area-level poverty in which the women lived when mammography screening was offered at no cost (author abstract). The conclusions showed that women who had more…

This study sought to examine the effect of prenatal poverty on the birth weight of infants (as birth weight can be a predictor for a range of outcomes for children) and subsequently, the effect that work-based welfare assistance, such as the EITC…

The Brookings Institution authored this report on new statistics that show suburban areas have the fastest growing poor population in the country. Specifically, between 2000 and 2008, suburbs’ poor populations grew by 25 percent, which equates to…

From the National Center for Children in Poverty, this report analyzes the effectiveness of America's work supports, such as earned income tax credits, public health insurance, child care assistance, and food stamps. For families, work supports…

This document provides the findings from a six-year study conducted in New York City on the ability of substance abusing TANF participants to obtain a job and remain employed. It was found that the overwhelming majority of substance abusing…