Index - M

Maintenance-of-effort levels, 94, 95t

Marriage
     conflict in, 145
     divorce, 58-59, 59t
     never-married adults, 60-61
     participation rates for means-tested programs by marital status, 88t
     promotion of, 145
     work and poverty, 69-70

Means-tested programs
     expenditures, 1, 2t, 6t
     Head Start, 121-122, 122t, 123t
     housing assistance, 124-125, 124f, 125t
     length of participation, 86t-87t
     Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP), 122-123
     National School Lunch and School Breakfast programs, 114, 115t, 116t, 117t
     participation rates, 88t
     State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), 120-121
     Supplemental Security Income (SSI), 12, 89, 90t, 107-108, 108f, 108t
     Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) program, 114-116, 118t
     See also Medicaid

Median incomes, 27-28, 29t, 32t, 39-40

Medicaid
     children covered by, 120(f8.4)
     and defining income, 31
     eligibility, 116-117
     expenditures, 119-120, 121t
     federal expenditures, 2-3, 5t
     recipients, 79, 121t
     state expenditures, 4-5, 7(f1.3), 7(f1.4)

Medicare
     defining income, 31
     federal expenditures, 2-3, 5t
     recipients, 119t

Meeting the Demand: Hiring Patterns of Welfare Recipients in Four Metropolitan Areas (Holzer and Stoll), 150

Men's earnings, 70t

Minimum wage, 66-68, 68t, 69f, 70t