Many welfare-reliant and working poor families experience difficulties making ends meet and thus must develop strategies to cope with competing demands for limited resources. Needs, resources, and the strategies low-income families use to negotiate competing priorities change as family...

Over six million children who reside with a single mother and have a father who lives elsewhere are food insecure. This study examines the effectiveness of two aspects of nonresident father involvement, in-person visitation and financial contributions, in reducing food acquisition problems using...

This paper brings attention to the effects of PRWORA on household-level Food Stamps recipiency, Food Stamps allotments, and food security among children of immigrants using the Survey of Program Dynamics. This paper further seeks to examine the affect of cutbacks on welfare allotments on "mixed...