poverty compared to their counterparts in other nations. Strategies to reduce the future Social Security deficit need to take … into account the way that program changes affect poverty and benefit adequacy as well as fiscal soundness. Other nations … offer approaches which would help us to achieve lower poverty rates while also providing fiscally responsible solutions to …

insufficient social spending. Vulnerable groups such as children and the aged are considered. The paper will look at the United … net effects of existing policies and particularly the United Kingdom's program to reduce child poverty. While best … difference in outcomes as shown by the recent British success in fighting child poverty. …

2000. Both the elderly and children are much more likely to be poor than the overall population. Analyses of 18 rich …This study challenges the conventional wisdom that elderly, child and overall poverty are divergent. Comparing the … poverty by a significant amount and child poverty by a lesser amount. The elderly were considerably more likely to be poor …

The paper considers child poverty in rich English-speaking countries - the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the UK …, and Ireland. Do all these countries really stand out from other OECD countries for their levels of child poverty, as is … sometimes assumed? And what policies have they adopted to address the problem? 'Poverty' is interpreted broadly and hence the …

Children experience a higher poverty rate in the U.S. than in most comparable nations a poverty gap traceable to … married couple and other households with children (gradient effects). Distributional effects contribute to the U.S. poverty … data, we find that child poverty rates are higher in the U.S. than in 13 out of 14 other high-income nations. The poverty …

insufficient social spending. Vulnerable groups such as children and the aged are considered. The paper will look at the United …'s program to reduce child poverty. While best practices may be identified, each nation must create its own set of mutually … poverty. …

allow children to escape from poverty? This is the question we try to answer in this comparative study. The objective is … therefore not so much to carry out a diagnosis of the financial poverty of children as to evaluate the effect, in terms of …Children do not control their socio-economic situation; they benefit or suffer from their parents' situation. In north …

other rich countries? This paper summarizes the poverty status of American children and then the variance in their 'real ….2 million cases by June 2000, about one third of the 6.6 million households which benefited from the SSI program in that same … slogan clearly challenges us to judge a society by how well it treats its children. But when we compare the well-being of …

. The ongoing call for better funding of families reflects the hardship of couples with children who seem to be unable to … couples so as to reveal incentive structures for couples to decide for or against children. Hereafter, investigations of … suggested correlation between low income and many children or high income and few descendants is being tested statistically in …