The Effect of Specific Welfare Policies on Poverty analyzes data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) and various welfare rules databases.

Children of Immigrants: Facts and Figures presents data from several reports in a fact sheet format.

Understanding Changes in Child Poverty Over the Past Decade, examines factors affecting trends in child poverty, and in particular looks at differences between black and white children.

How Does Family Well-Being Vary across Different Types of Neighborhoods? (from the Low-Income Working Families series) uses data from the National Surey of America’s Families (NSAF) to examine child and family well-being across different neighborhood environments.

What About the Dads? Child Welfare Agencies’ Efforts to Identify, Locate and Involve Nonresident Fathers reports findings from the Study of Fathers’ Involvement in Permanency Planning and Child Welfare Casework conducted by the Urban Institute and the National Opinion Research Center (NORC) at the University of Chicago.

• Improving Health Insurance Coverage in the District of Columbia (Research Report)
• Racial and Ethnic Differences in Insurance Coverage and Health Care Access and Use: A Synthesis of Findings from the Assessing the New Federalism Project (Discussion Paper)
• Assessing the Gains from Medicaid Coverage: Evidence for the Nation and 13 States (No. 13 in the Health Policy Online: Timely Analyses of Current Trends and Policy Options series)
• Why Do People Lack Health Insurance? (No. 14 in the Health Policy Online: Timely Analyses of Current Trends and Policy Options series)

• Older Adults Engaged as Volunteers (Brief #5 in the Perspectives on Productive Aging series)
• Enjoying the Golden Work Years (Brief #6 in the Perspectives on Productive Aging series)

Characteristics of Minimum Wage Workers: 2005, a new report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, uses data from the Current Population Survey to describe minimum wage workers in 2005. Among the findings, minimum wage workers tended to be young, single, and work part-time.

• Out-of-Pocket Expenditures on Health Care and Insurance Premiums among the Elderly Population, 2003 (#122)
• The Long-Term Uninsured in America, 2000–2003: Estimates for the U.S. Population under Age 65 (#123)
• The Persistence in the Level of Health Expenditures over Time: Estimates for the U.S. Population, 2002–2003 (#124)
• Outpatient Prescribed Medicine Expenses by Source of Payment and Insurance Status for the Medicare and Non-Medicare Populations, 2003 (#125)
• Out-of-Pocket Health Care Expenses by Age and Insurance Coverage, 2003 (#126)

Physical Dating Violence Among High School Students — United States, 2003 (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, CDC, May 19, 2006) examines relationship violence among teens in grades 7 through 12 and related health risk behaviors, including the risk for intimate partner violence in adulthood. See also related news coverage: Dating violence common among U.S. teens (Reuters via MSNBC, May 18, 2006).