全球智库信息集成服务系统(G2TT): Families on a Fault Line? The Risk of Poverty When a Child Joins the Home

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	Families on a Fault Line? The Risk of Poverty When a Child Joins the Home
	Marybeth J. Mattingly; Andrew Schaefer; and Douglas J. Gagnon
发表日期	2018-02-28
出版者	Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation
出版年	2018
语种	英语
概述	This brief describes our use of an official poverty measure (OPM) framework to simulate who is most at risk of falling into poverty through the birth, adoption, or fostering of a child.",
摘要	Key Findings: Many families live with economic risk. If every US family added a child, an additional 5.2 percent of families would become poor. Dramatic income increases are required to mitigate risk. For families near the fault line, a 25% increase in household income is necessary to offset the addition of a child. Dynamics are unequal across groups. Family characteristics associated with high poverty are also associated with increased risk of becoming poor after adding a child. Families most at risk are black and Hispanic families, families with children, less-educated families, and those living in rural or highly urban settings. This brief describes our use of an official poverty measure (OPM) framework to simulate who is most at risk of falling into poverty through the birth, adoption, or fostering of a child. The mathematics of poverty suggest that expenses associated with a new child may push a low-income family over a threshold—into poverty. In fact, many families live so close to the poverty line that any disruption—a health crisis, a costly car repair, job loss, or adding a child to the family—could push them into poverty. In this brief, we use the addition of a child as an illustrative example of this broader dynamic.
URL	https://www.mathematica.org/our-publications-and-findings/publications/families-on-a-fault-line-the-risk-of-poverty-when-a-child-joins-the-home
来源智库	Mathematica Policy Research (United States)
资源类型	智库出版物
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/489166
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Marybeth J. Mattingly,Andrew Schaefer,and Douglas J. Gagnon. Families on a Fault Line? The Risk of Poverty When a Child Joins the Home. 2018.

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