, including welfare participation, labor market involvement, earnings, income and poverty, and family formation. While no single … family earnings. The result was a rise in total family income and a decline in poverty. The gains from the 1996 reforms were …

We examine the relationship between the business cycle and poverty for the period from 1960 to 2008 using income data … relationship between macroeconomic conditions and poverty is of particular interest given recent changes in anti-poverty policies … poverty, examining alternative income poverty and consumption poverty, which have conceptual and empirical advantages as …