Index - P

Panel on Poverty and Family Assistance, 31

Pavetti, LaDonna, 9

Personal Responsibility and Work
     Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA)
     child support enforcement, 62-63
     food stamps, 109
     intent of, 6
     noncash benefits funding, 108
     noncitizens and benefit restrictions, 12
     overview, 9, 10-13
     passage of, 127
     projected growth of spending, 12 f
     Survey of Income and Program Participation (Census Bureau), 87, 89

Poverty
     change in status, 46-50, 53f
     children, 153, 153f
     chronic, 52(f4.4)
     custodial parents, 61-62, 61(f5.3)
     defining, 30-32
     duration of, 52(f4.2), 52(f4.3)
     families in, 76t
     guidelines, 17, 18t, 30-31
     income sources by poverty status, 56f
     income-to-poverty ratios, 42-43
     labor force participants and poverty status, 75t
     measuring, 17, 30-31
     median length of poverty spells, 89f
     race/ethnicity, 49
     rates, 17-19, 19f, 20t-23t
     taxes and, 33t
     unemployment compensation as safety net, 64-65
     work experience and, 49t
     working poor, 30(f3.3), 69-71, 75t, 77t, 117

Private welfare expenditures, 5

PRWORA See Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA)

Public opinion
     Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC), 92
     welfare reform, 91

Public Views on Welfare Reform and Children in the Current Economy (Lake, Snell, Perry & Associates), 91

Public Welfare Amendments (1962), 127

Public work programs, 127