Family indicators, which typically include measures such as family structure, benefit receipt, and employment and poverty status, do not fully portray how families function as a unit and as part of society. This chartbook begins to address this gap by presenting examples of how available data...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Food and Nutrition Service asked the National Academies' Committee on National Statistics and Food and Nutrition Board to convene a panel of experts to estimate the number of students eligible for free and reduced-price meals. The panel, chaired by...

Social enterprises (SEs) are businesses that intentionally hire individuals who face barriers to employment, while the enterprises remain financially viable. They seek to improve the earnings of the people they employ and help them use fewer government benefits and services, thereby easing...

The publication profiles federal, state, local, and private facilities that provide drug abuse and alcoholism treatment services. The on-line version is searchable by geographic location and type of treatment. Also has a locator/mapping feature that generates a map showing exactly where...