Vulnerable Families Research Program
| Publication | Category | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| Utilization of Long-Term Care by an Aging Population The aging of the U.S. population is an ongoing trend. The U.S. Census Bureau projects that by 2050 one in every five Americans will be over 65, and that by 2060 the over-65 population will have doubled in absolute size and the over-85 population will have tripled.… |
Vulnerable Families Research Program | Disability, Family, Health, Seniors |
| As Opioid Use Climbs, Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome Rises in New Hampshire The opioid crisis besetting every region of the United States directly affects more than just those who use substances. For a pregnant woman, a consequence of substance use can be neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS)—withdrawal symptoms experienced by the newborn (see… |
Vulnerable Families Research Program | Drugs, Family, Health, New Hampshire, Substance Abuse |
| 2020 Census Faces Challenges in Rural America The 2020 Census will have ramifications for every person in the United States, urban and rural residents alike.1 Interest in the Census is growing2 and the Census Bureau’s plans are becoming more concrete,3 but little has been written about the special challenges… |
Demography, Vulnerable Families Research Program | Demography, Rural, Urban |
| Data Snapshot: Working Families with Young Children and No Out-of-Pocket Child Care Struggle Financially Working families with young children face substantial barriers in accessing and affording quality child care. Figure 1 shows that among working families with a child under age 3, those who do not pay for child care are more likely to live in poor or low-income… |
Vulnerable Families Research Program | Child Care, Children, Family |
| Data Snapshot: Poorer Working Families With Young Children Are Unlikely to Afford Child Care Low-income families with working parents face significant burdens paying for child care, which can function as a barrier to work and often means parents must rely on child care arrangements that are less formal and less stable.1 Amid national concerns about the high… |
Vulnerable Families Research Program | Child Care, Family, Income |
| Data Snapshot: SNAP Declines Continue in 2016, but Not for Rural Places In 2016, 12.4 percent of households reported Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, or food stamps) receipt, down 0.4 percentage point from 2015. Similar declines in suburbs and cities drove the national decrease, but the 14.8 percent of rural households… |
Vulnerable Families Research Program | Food Assistance, Rural, Safety Net, Urban |
| Concentrated Poverty Increased in Both Rural and Urban Areas Since 2000, Reversing Declines in the 1990s The number of nonmetropolitan counties with high poverty rates increased between the 2000 Decennial Census and 2011–2015 (hereafter 2013) American Community Survey (ACS), and so did the share of the rural population residing in these disadvantaged areas. Over this… |
Vulnerable Families Research Program | Poverty, Rural, Urban |
| "Not very many options for the people who are working here" In this brief, we use interview and focus group data to describe some of the ways that restricted rural housing stock affects working families in two rural New England counties, and explore solutions proposed by rural residents and experts to make housing affordable… |
Vulnerable Families Research Program | Housing, Rural, Safety Net |
| Data Snapshot: Nine Million Publicly Insured Children in the Twelve States Facing Federal CHIP Cutoff by End of Year Funding for the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP)—the federal program that extends health insurance coverage to low income children not eligible for traditional Medicaid—officially expired on September 30, 2017. Given that states implement CHIP in different… |
Vulnerable Families Research Program | Health Insurance, Safety Net |
| Data Snapshot: Poverty Estimates for New Hampshire Counties On October 20, 2017, the U.S. Census Bureau made available estimates of poverty and other indicators for 2016 for small geographic areas. In considering these data from the American Community Survey (ACS), it is important to pay close attention to the margins of… |
New Hampshire, Vulnerable Families Research Program | New Hampshire, Poverty |
