' standard of living. Then we briefly look at the reason why low-income American children and their parents are in such straits … over federal fiscal support for low-income families. Of course, the 1996 Welfare Reform Act is a major 'accountability … slogan clearly challenges us to judge a society by how well it treats its children. But when we compare the well-being of …

Social vulnerability due to insufficient income and earnings may come from many sources, both demographic and economic … insufficient social spending. Vulnerable groups such as children and the aged are considered. The paper will look at the United … States, Canada, and Europe, and Chinese Taipei-Taiwan using the LIS (Luxembourg Income Study) database, and will assess the …

account for the amount of real incomes that families actually have to spend for themselves and their children. The Luxembourg … Income Study (LIS) household microdata for 13 nations and Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) PPP …'s and noncash benefit data are used to examine differences in the standard of living among children at various points in the …

find that non-cash benefits are particularly important for low-income American children and their families. …This paper estimates the redistributive effects of welfare state expenditures on children and disparities in the … economic well-being of children in ten nations and relates the two. Data from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and …

Social vulnerability due to insufficient income and earnings may come from many sources, both demographic and economic … insufficient social spending. Vulnerable groups such as children and the aged are considered. The paper will look at the United … States, Canada, and Europe using the LIS (Luxembourg Income Study) database, and especially with a focus on Greece whose data …