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Index - F

Families
     AFDC/TANF numbers compared, 101t
     children and family structure, 58t, 145
     households as distinct from, 27
     households by family structure, 57t
     participation rates for means-tested programs by family status, 88t
     poor families with children, 30(f3.3)
     poverty and family status, 23-24, 25t, 26t, 49-50, 76t
     welfare recipients, 80t-82t, 83t-85t, 86-87

Federal government
     Head Start, 121-122, 122t, 123t
     hiring of welfare recipients, 150-151
     housing assistance, 124-125, 124f, 125t
     Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP), 122-123
     National School Lunch and School Breakfast programs, 114, 115t, 116t, 117t
     public aid expenditures, 1-3, 2t, 3t, 4t, 152f
     recipients in multiple assistance programs, 89, 89t, 90t
     Supplemental Security Income (SSI), 12, 89, 90t, 107-108, 108f, 108t
     unemployment compensation programs, 65t
     Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) program, 114-116, 118t
     See also Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC); Medicaid; Medicare; Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF)

Food and Nutrition Service, USDA, 33-34

Food assistance
     Balanced Budget Reconciliation Act (1997), 14
     maximum TANF and food benefits, 99t-100t
     need for, 34-37
     Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act, 13
     school lunch and school breakfast programs, 114, 115t, 116t, 117t
     Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) program, 114-116, 118t
     See also Food stamps; Hunger

Food expenditures, family, 30-31

Food Research and Action Center (FRAC), 32-33

Food security and insecurity. See Hunger

Food stamps
     AFDC family eligibility, 95-96
     average monthly benefits, 112-113
     income limits for eligibility, 112t
     maximum allotments, 114t
     participation rates, 109, 111-112, 112, 113t
     Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA), 13, 14
     recipients, 37(f3.8), 79, 113-114
     TANF recipients, 98-99, 104t
     work programs, 128

Former Welfare Families and the Food Stamp Program: The Exodus Continues (Zedlewski and Gruber), 154

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