OBJECTIVE: We examined the association between state Medicaid and State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) income eligibility and the financial burden reported by low-income families raising children with special health care needs (CSHCN). SAMPLE AND METHODS: Data on low-income CSHCN and their families were from the National Survey of Children With Special Health Care Needs (N 17 039),...

OBJECTIVE: We examined the association between state Medicaid and State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) income eligibility and the financial burden reported by low-income families raising children with special health care needs (CSHCN). SAMPLE AND METHODS: Data on low-income CSHCN and their families were from the National Survey of Children With Special Health Care Needs (N 17 039),...

1. Low-income preschoolers are least likely to have a mother who is married or who has a high school diploma. Nationally, 60 percent of low-income preschoolers had a mother with a high school diploma, compared to 86 percent of children in families with mid-range incomes, and 97 percent of children in families with upper-range incomes. In 1999, 57 percent of low-income preschoolers had married p...

Household accumulation of debt and arrears on debt, especially among low income families, is an extremely topical issue in the UK media and in policy circles. The paper utilises data from the UK’s Survey of Low Income Families in order to examine use of credit, and default and arrears, among low income families with children. It shows how credit use and accumulation of arrears differs between s...

All countries look to economic growth to reduce low-income. This paper focuses on the 1990s and assesses the role played by changes in economic growth, employment earnings and government transfers in the patterns of low-income intensity in Canada during the 1990s. We find that low-income intensity was higher in most provinces during the 1990s than during the 1980s (comparing comparable position...

All countries look to economic growth to reduce low-income. This paper focuses on the 1990s and assesses the role played by changes in economic growth, employment earnings and government transfers in the patterns of low-income intensity in Canada during the 1990s. We find that low-income intensity was higher in most provinces during the 1990s than during the 1980s (comparing comparable position...