Index - E

Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC), 29-30, 30(f3.4), 150

Earnings. See Wages and earnings

Economic Opportunity Act (EOA), 128

Education and training
     income and, 40t-47t, 42
     Job Corps, 130, 131f
     JOBS program, 130
     recipients, welfare, 87
     TANF recipients, 132
     Workforce Investment Act (WIA), 132t

EITC (Earned Income Tax Credit), 150

Elderly and poverty, 31, 49

Employment
     AFDC/TANF recipient families, 100
     Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA), 128
     hard-to-serve recipients, 151, 154
     hiring of welfare recipients, 150-151
     incentives, 150-151
     income and work experience, 40t-47t, 41-42
     Job Corps program, 130-131, 131f, 131t
     job retention and advancement programs, 151
     Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA), 128-129
     JOBS (Job Opportunities and Basic Skills) training program, 128, 129-130
     maintenance-of-effort levels, 94, 95t
     participation rates for means-tested programs by employment status, 88t
     poverty status and work experience, 24-25, 28t, 49t
     recipients' employment status, 87
     recipients' troubles in, 146
     requirement exemptions, 146
     state work requirements, 133t-141t
     summer youth employment, 129, 129t
     TANF recipients, 131-132, 142, 147, 148t-149t, 150-151
     TANF work exemptions, 146
     transportation and, 143
     welfare work requirements, 6, 11-12, 13-14, 133t-141t
     working poor, 30(f3.3), 69-71, 75t, 77t, 117

Energy assistance, 122-123

Enforcement, child support, 63, 153

Expenditures
     AFDC and TANF comparisons, 93-94, 93t, 94t
     family food spending, 30-31
     federal and state, 152f
     federal public aid, 1-3, 2t, 3t, 4t
     housing assistance, 124-125, 125t
     Job Corps, 131t
     means-tested programs, 2t, 6t
     Medicaid, 119-120
     private, 5
     projected growth, 12f
     states, 3-5, 7f, 152
     Supplemental Security Income (SSI), 108, 109t
     surplus funds, 151
     Workforce Investment Act (WIA), 132t