Chapter 8          Wealth and Poverty in America:

                            The Economic Condition of Children

[slide show]

Richest Americans slide show from Forbes

Resources

Money Income in the United States- 2000 (from U.S. Census Bureau    )

Historical Income Tables (U.S. Census Bureau)

Inequality

Pathbreaking CBO Study Shows Dramatic Increases in Income Disparities in 1980s and 1990s- An Analysis of the CBO Data CBPP

The Latest IRS Data on After-Tax Income Trends CBPP

Child Poverty

• The Changing Demographics of Low-Income Families and Their Children

• 2000 Green Book, APPENDIX H. DATA ON POVERTY Text , pdf

• Child Poverty in the States: Levels and Trends from 1979 to 1998 

• Poverty Among Children and the Elderly in Developing Countries (1999)  
  by Neil G. Bennett and Hsien-Hen Lu

• The Changing Demographics of Low-Income Families and Their Children

• Children and Poverty Volume 7 - Number 2 - Summer/Fall 1997
• KIDS COUNT 2000 - Summary - Percent of Children in Poverty  (Kids Count)
• Low Income and Hardship Among America's Kindergartners
• Low-Income Children in the United States (2003)  (National Center for Children in Poverty)
• Early Childhood Poverty: A Statistical Profile (2002)   (National Center for Children in Poverty)
• Number of Black Children in Extreme Poverty Hits Record High  
• Economic Restructuring and The Retreat From Marriage
  by Daniel T. Lichter, Diane K. McLaughlin, and David C. Ribar (June 2000)  
• Poverty in the United States- 2000 (from U.S. Census Bureau    )
• Educational Inequality by Yoshiaki Azuma and Herschel I. Grossman (March 2001)
• Helping Disconnected Youth by Improving Linkages Between High Schools and Careers
  by Robert I. Lerman abstract
• Living at the Edge [series]
• Employment Alone is Not Enough for America's Low-Income Children and Families
• Improving Student Performance in the Inner City
  from Policy and Research Report (Vol.26 No.1) Spring 1996
• Public Attitudes Toward Low-Income Families and Children [series]
• Child Poverty Fact Sheet (March 2002) (National Center for Children in Poverty)
• Child Poverty Research Brief (National Center for Children in Poverty)

Taxes

Tax Cut Basics: How Trillion$ in Tax Cuts Leave Millions of Children and No Millionaires Behind

Child Tax Credit Analysis: Bush Proposal Leaves One-quarter of America's Children Behind

Citizens for Tax Justice's Report: Year by Year Analysis of the Bush Tax Cuts Shows Growing Tilt to the Very Rich (PDF:

Richest Taxpayers to Get a Shocking 52 Percent of the Bush Tax Cut by 2010 New Analysis Shows (PDF: 239K)
Press Release & 2 charts: Americans with average incomes over a million dollars will be handed an astonishing $121 billion in tax cuts in the year 2010 alone—more than all the rest of American taxpayers combined—according to a new analysis of the 2001 Bush tax cut issued by Citizens for Tax Justice and the Children’s Defense Fund.
 

Social Security

See SSA's FY 2004 Annual Performance Plan and Revised Final FY 2003 Plan

Frances Perkins Social Security Pioneer

International Social Security

Social Security Programs Throughout the World: Europe, 2002

Social Security Programs Throughout the World: Asia and the Pacific, 2002

Social Security Programs Throughout the World, 1999

Frances Perkins - Department of Labor

International Programs

UN Conference on Children

The social situation in the European Union

The OECD Observer: OECD in Figures - Volume 2002 Supplement 1