housing, education, and more. Depending on your family size and federal poverty level, you could be eligible for benefits such as premium tax credits and Medicaid.
While hardship prevalence decreased significantly as income increased, many non-low-income women also experienced hardships; e.g., in California, 43% of all women and 13% with incomes >400% FPL experienced one or more hardships. These findings paint a disturbing picture of experiences around the...
The income-based thresholds used to determine the federal poverty level status of an individual come directly from the U.S. Census Bureau, where these thresholds were used to estimate the official poverty rate in the US (Creamer et al. 2022). However, eligibility for programs administered by ...
This policy brief uses 2009 data to calculate the Elder Economic Security Standard™ Index (Elder Index), a measure of the basic cost of living for seniors in all 58 California counties. It shows that both singles and couples age 65 or older who rent need more than twice the amount estab...
The poverty line under the Supplemental Poverty Measure is higher in states like California and New York…and lower in states like West Virginia and Mississippi. Adding $124 billion of additional cost to the welfare state would be bad news for taxpayers. But the worst thing about this scheme ...
The analysis of the rise of the Social Credit party in Quebec in the federal election of 1962 revealed that there is a strong linear and positive relationship between short-term changes for the worse in one’s economic conditions and Social Credit suppor
The purpose of this study is to examine growth trajectories of neighborhood poverty in California using latent class growth analysis (LCGM). Methods: Data are from the Neighborhood Change Database and the 2005-2009 American Community Survey at the census tract level, normalized to census 2000 ...
Program Eligibility by Federal Poverty Level for 2025 Your financial help and whether you qualify for various Covered California or Medi-Cal programs depends on your in- come, based on the Federal Poverty Level (FPL). SEE NOTE BELOW FOR INCOMES IN THIS RANGE % FPL 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 ...
We compared Milwaukee to other HRRs in Wisconsin and Los Angeles to the other populous counties of California and to a region in California of comparable size and diversity, stretching from San Francisco to Sacramento (termed "San-Framento"). When studied at the ZIP code level, we found ...
Well, for over 30 million Americans this is no longer possible. Though we live in the richest and most powerful country in the world there are many who are living under or at the precipice of the poverty level, “While the United States has enjoyed unprecedented affluence, low-wage ...