Index - H

Head Start, 121-122, 122t, 123t

Health and Human Services, Department of, 17, 18t

Health insurance
     low-income persons, coverage of, 119f
     types and coverage status, 120(f8.3)
     See also Medicaid; Medicare

Hispanic Americans
     AFDC/TANF recipients, 102t
     earnings, 70t
     Head Start enrollment, 123t
     household income, 71t-74t
     households and family structure, 57t
     hunger prevalence, 35f, 36t
     labor force participants and poverty status, 75t
     Medicaid, children covered by, 120(f8.4)
     participation rates for means-tested programs, 88t
     poverty rates, 18-19, 20t-23t

Home heating assistance, 122-123

Homelessness and hunger, 37, 37(f3.9)

Households
     family structure, 57t
     hunger prevalence, 35f, 36t
     income, 27-28, 29t, 32t, 39-43, 40t-47t, 48t
     net worth, 44-46, 50t
     welfare recipients, 79, 80t-82t, 83t-85t

Housing and Urban Development, Department of, 124-125, 125t

Housing assistance, 100-101, 104t, 123-125, 124f, 125t

Housing Strategies to Strengthen Welfare Policy and Support Working Families (Sard and Waller), 124

Hunger
     Community Childhood Hunger Identification Project: A Survey of Childhood Hunger in the United States, 32-33
     food security survey, 33-34, 34f, 36t
     Hunger in America, 2001 National Report (Second Harvest), 34-37
     prevalence, 35f, 36t
     See also Food assistance; Food stamps