children and childless families. Families with children, regardless of having one or two parent, had very high rates of poverty …The aim is to assess the prevalence of poverty among families receiving social assistance. We will examine the … incidence of poverty among the recipients in relation to the general poverty profile. To answer these questions, the adequacy …

This paper investigates the real living standards and poverty status of United States children in the 1990's compared … to the children in 17 other nations, including Europe, Scandinavia, Canada and Australia. We find that American low …-income children have lower real spendable income than do comparable children in almost every other nation studied. In contrast, high …