POVERTY AND THE DISTRIBUTION OF INCOME

FALL 2000

 
 
 

USEFUL LINKS


[Data Sources]  [Welfare Issues]  [Living Statndards and Jobs] [Income and Poverty]



 
 
 
 
 

DATA SOURCES

 

ECONOMIC REPORT OF THE PRESIDENT -- http://www.gpo.ucop.edu/catalog/erp00.html

INCOME, U.S.  -- http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/income.html

POVERTY, U.S.  -- http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/poverty.html

1990 U.S. CENSUS -- http://venus.census.gov/cdrom/lookup/

EARNINGS , U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics -- http://www.bls.gov/cesbtabs.htm

INCOME, CANADA -- http://www.statcan.ca/english/Pgdb/People/famili.htm

EARNINGS, CANADA -- http://www.statcan.ca/english/Pgdb/People/labour.htm

INCOME INEQUALITY, International Statistics -- http://lissy.ceps.lu/inequality.htm

AFDC/TANF, FOOD STAMPS, and SSI CASELOADS -- http://aspe.hhs.gov/hsp/indicators00/index.htm

CHILDREN'S ECONOMIC WELL BEING -- http://aspe.hhs.gov/hsp/indicators00/index.htm

TRANSITIONAL ECONOMIES, World Bank -- http://www.worldbank.org/research/transition/house.htm

COUNTRY STATISTICS, International,World Bank  -- http://www.worldbank.org/data

GINI COEFFICIENTS AND INCOME BY QUINTILES, International, World Bank --  tab2_8.pdf  (Adobe Acrobat file)

 
 
 
 
 
 

GENERAL INFORMATION SOURCES

WELFARE ISSUES

US Dept. of Health and Human Services, http://aspe.os.dhhs.gov/hsp/hspwelfare.htm#links
Welfare Information Network, http://www.welfareinfo.org/
University of Maryland, Welfare Reform Academy, http://www.welfareacademy.org/
Urban Institute, http://www.urban.org/news/focus/focus_welfare.html
Council of Economic Advisors, "Explaining the Decline in Welfare Receipt"



 
 
 
 

LIVING STANDARDS AND LABOR MARKETS

Economic Policy Institute, http://www.epinet.org/epihome.html


INCOME AND POVERTY


University of Wisconsin, Institute for Research on Poverty, http://www.welfareacademy.org/
Urban Institute, http://www.urban.org/news/focus/focus_workingpoor.html
Center for Budget and Policy Priorities, http://www.cbpp.org/
Heritage Foundation, http://www.heritage.org/library/index/i5.html
 
 
 

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