American Incomes and Poverty at Labor Day 1992: Hearing Before the Joint Economic Committee, Congress of the United States, One Hundred Second Congress, Second Session, September 3, 1992, Volume 4 |
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Page 96 - ... (I) Children of teenage single parents have lower cognitive scores, lower educational aspirations, and a greater likelihood of becoming teenage parents themselves. (J) Children of single-parent homes are...
Page 48 - STATEMENT OF ROBERT GREENSTEIN, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, CENTER ON BUDGET AND POLICY PRIORITIES, WASHINGTON, DC Mr.
Page 63 - May 1992 showed that the proportion of full-time yearround workers who are paid wages too low to lift a family of four out of poverty has grown sharply in recent years. In 1979. some 12.1 percent of full-time year-round workers were paid wages this low. In 1990. some 18 percent were.
Page 87 - Behavioral poverty" refers to a breakdown in the values and conduct that lead to the formation of healthy families, stable personalities, and promote self sufficiency. Behavioral poverty is a cluster of social pathologies including: dependency and eroded work ethic, lack of educational aspiration and achievement, inability or unwillingness to control one's children, increased single parenthood and illegitimacy, criminal activity, and drug and alcohol abuse.
Page 62 - The number of poor children also was greater than in any other year of the past two decades. • While the economic downturn has fueled the rise ". poverty since 1989, it came after an economic recovery period in whim poverty rates declined much less than expected.
Page 93 - The mother has a contract with the government: She will continue to receive her "paycheck" as long as she fulfills two conditions: 1) she must not work; and 2) she must not marry an employed The current welfare system has made marriage economically irrational for most low-income parents.
Page 96 - The collapse of family structure in turn has crippling effects on the health, emotional stability, educational achievements and life prospects of low income children. Children raised in single parent families, when compared to those in intact families, are one third more likely to exhibit behavioral problems such as hyperactivity, antisocial behavior, and anxiety. In regard to more extreme disorders, children deprived of a two parent home are two to three times more likely to need psychiatric care...
Page 49 - Bureau report found that between 1979 and 1990 the proportion of full-time, year-round workers who were paid wages too low to lift a family of four to the poverty line increased dramatically.
Page 98 - MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH SERVICES BLOCK GRANT, TITLE V OF THE SOCIAL SECURITY ACT...
Page 16 - Supplementary Report on the Low-Income Population: 1966 to 1972;