Index - A

AFDC. See Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC)

Age
     median household income, 40t-47t, 41
     net worth, 44-45
     poverty rates, 19, 26f
     welfare recipients, 86

Agriculture, U.S. Department of food security survey, 33-34
     poverty, measuring, 17

Aid to Families with Dependent Children-Unemployed Parent (AFDC-UP), 92-93

Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC)

average payment, historic trends in, 97(t 7.5)
     background of, 91-92
     duration of assistance, 101-102
     eligibility and benefit payments, 94-96, 96t-97t
     families receiving, 101t
     federal and state expenditures, 93t, 94t
     food stamp eligibility, 95-96
     historic trends, 100(t 7.8)
     legislation affecting, 127-128
     Medicaid eligibility, 116-117
     recipients, by state, 147f
     widows, 92
     See also Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF)

America's Families and Living Arrangements (Census Bureau), 56-57

Appropriations. See Expenditures

Are Married Parents Really Better Off for Children?: What Research Says about the Effects of Family Structure on Child Well- Being (Parke), 145

Asian and Pacific Islander Americans
     AFDC/TANF recipients, 102t
     Head Start enrollment, 123t
     household income, 71t-74t
     households and family structure, 57t
     Medicaid, children covered by, 120(f8.4)
     poverty rates, 19, 20t-23t

Assessing the New Federalism project (Urban Institute), 142

Assets, 31, 45-46, 51t