Chapter 6 – Poverty: Growth failed to reach low-income families
Figure 6A: Poverty and twice-poverty rate, 1959-2006
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Table 6.1: Percent and number of persons in poverty and twice poverty, 1959-2006
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Figure 6B: Change in poverty and productivity, 1979-89 and 2000-07
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Figure 6C: Poverty rates by race/ethnicity, 1973-2006
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Table 6.2: Persons in poverty, by race/ethnicity, 1959-2006
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Table 6.3: Percent of children in poverty, by race, 1979-2006
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Table 6.4: Family poverty, by race/ethnicity of family head and for different family types, 1959-2006
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Table 6.5: Average poverty gap, 1959-2006 (2006 dollars)
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Figure 6D: Family poverty gap and family poverty rates, 1959-2006
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Figure 6E: Percent of the poor below half the poverty line, 1975-2006
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Table 6.6: Poverty by nativity, 1993-2006
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Figure 6F: Poverty, native and foreign born, 1993-2006
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Figure 6G: Poverty rates, official compared to NAS alternatives, 1999 to 2006
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Table 6.7: Official and alternative poverty thresholds, 1996-2006: Family of four (two parents, two children)
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Figure 6H: Official versus alternative poverty rates, 1996-2006
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Table 6.8: Official and alternative poverty rates, 1996-2005, by demographics
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Figure 6I: Official and relative poverty, 1979-2006
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Figure 6J: Real low-wage growth, productivity, and unemployment: Three five-year periods
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Figure 6K: Poverty rate, actual and simulated, 1959-2006
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Table 6.10: The impact of economic, demographic, and education changes on poverty rates
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Figure 6.L: The impact of family structure changes on poverty rates, 1969-2006
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Figure 6M: Poverty determinants, 1969-2006
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Figure 6N: Annual hours worked, low-income women with children, 1979-2006
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Table 6.11: The effects of work supports on family resources and expenses, assuming full receipt: Single mother of two with full-time employment at $8 an hour, Chicago
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Figure 6O: Low-income growth, single-mother families with children, 1991-2005
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Figure 6P: Diminished effect of safety net: Share of children lifted above deep poverty
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Table 6.12: Characteristics of low-wage workers, 2007 (Part 1 of 2)
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Table 6.12: Characteristics of low-wage workers, 2007 (Part 2 of 2)
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Figure 6Q: Percent change in wage given 1 point decline in unemployment
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Figure 6R: Real hourly wages of low-wage workers, 1973-2007
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Insert A: Documentation and Methodology, Appendices A and B, Table notes, Figure notes, Bibliography [download PDF]
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