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2. Temporary Assistance for Needy Families - Wikipedia

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   Federal government of the United States. Annual budget. $16.5 billion (FY 2021) [1] Website. www .acf .hhs .gov /programs /ofa /programs /tanf. Temporary Assistance for Needy Families ( TANF / tænɪf /) is a federal assistance program of the United States. It began on July 1, 1997, and succeeded the Aid to Families with Dependent Children ...

3. Socioeconomic status - Wikipedia

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   Socioeconomic status. Socioeconomic status ( SES) is an economic and sociological combined total measure of a person's work experience and of an individual's or family's access to economic resources and social position in relation to others. [1] [2] When analyzing a family's SES, the household income and the education and occupations of its ...

4. Poverty in the United States - Wikipedia

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   Not all minorities have low incomes. Asian families have higher incomes than all other ethnic groups. For example, the 2005 median income of Asian families was $68,957 compared to the median income of white families of $59,124. Asians, however, report discrimination occurrences more frequently than blacks.

5. Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program - Wikipedia

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   The Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program ( LIHEAP, pronounced "lie" "heap") is a United States federal social services program first established in 1981 and funded annually through Congressional appropriations. The mission of LIHEAP is to assist low income households, particularly those with the lowest incomes that pay a high proportion of ...

6. Affordable housing - Wikipedia

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   For low and middle income families, their house is also the greatest source of wealth. [31] Another method of studying affordability looks at the regular hourly wage of full-time workers who are paid only the minimum wage (as set by their local, regional, or national government). [32]

7. Causes of income inequality in the United States - Wikipedia

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   Two researchers have suggested that children in low income families are exposed to 636 words an hour, as opposed to 2,153 words in high income families during the first four formative years of a child's development. This, in turn, led to low achievement in later schooling due to the inability of the low income group to verbalize concepts.