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2011 The Palm Beach County Family Study (Full Report)

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Table 6. <strong>Family</strong> Income and Economic Support of Year 5 Sample over Time aCharacteristicAnnual income previous year (%)% Mothers (N=310)Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4 Year 5Less than $20,000 66 49 50 54 46Income-to-need ratio (%)Living at or below poverty threshold 69 54 52 58 52Use of income support programs (%)Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) 84 79 56 50 52Food Stamps 37 46 35 38 47Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) 18 23 19 22 35Social Security Insurance (SSI) 11 8 9 7 11Temporary Assistance for Needy Families(TANF)7 8 3 2 2Rent voucher 4 4 5 6 11Unemployment Insurance (UI) 3 2 1 3 9Home ownership (%)Home owned by mother or other family20 26 26 27 29membera Data were weighted to adjust for the oversampling of mothers in the Glades and mothers screened “at risk.”*Paired sample t-tests indicate that these year-to-year differences are statistically significant: income:need1 vs. income:need2;income:need1 vs. income:need3; income:need1 vs. income:need4; income:need1 vs. income:need5; FoodStamps1 vs. FoodStamps2;FoodStamps1 vs. FoodStamps5; FoodStamps2 vs. FoodStamps3; FoodStamps2 vs. FoodStamps4; FoodStamps3 vs. FoodStamps5;FoodStamps4 vs. FoodStamps5; wic1 vs. wic2; wic1 vs. wic3; wic1 vs. wic4; wic1 vs. wic5; wic2 vs. wic3; wic2 vs. wic4; wic2 vs.wic5; wic3 vs. wic4; tanf1 vs. tanf2; tanf1 vs. tanf4; tanf1 vs. tanf5; tanf2 vs. tanf3; tanf2 vs. tanf4; tanf2 vs. tanf5; rentvoucher1 vs.rentvoucher5; rentvoucher2 vs. rentvoucher5; rentvoucher3 vs. rentvoucher5; rentvoucher4 vs. rentvoucher5; ssi4 vs. ssi5; ui1 vs. ui3;ui1 vs. ui5; ui2 vs. ui5; ui3 vs. ui5; ui4 vs. ui5; eitc1 vs. eitc5; eitc2 vs. eitc5; eitc3 vs. eitc5; eitc4 vs. eitc5; home1 vs. home2; home1 vs.home3; home1 vs. home4; home1 vs. home5; home2 vs. home4; home2 vs. home5; home3 vs. home4; home3 vs. home5.Sample Characteristics by TGA<strong>The</strong> service system in <strong>Palm</strong> <strong>Beach</strong> <strong>County</strong> targeted four low-income communities. One question ofinterest at the start of this study was whether service use differs in an area in the western part of thecounty called the Glades from that in three other, more urban areas along the east coast of the county.Because it is a larger, more rural, and more remote area than those in eastern <strong>Palm</strong> <strong>Beach</strong> <strong>County</strong>, fundersand service providers want to ensure that the service system serves families in this area well. Thus, tounderstand service use and the effects of service, it is important to understand the characteristics offamilies living in different parts of <strong>Palm</strong> <strong>Beach</strong> <strong>County</strong>. Also, subsequent analyses of the relationshipbetween geographic location and service use and the effects of service use by location, for example, musttake into consideration differences in the characteristics of the families who live in the Glades and ofthose in other parts of the county.Table 7 presents selected characteristics of families living in the Glades, the non-Glades TGAs, andoutside the TGAs elsewhere in <strong>Palm</strong> <strong>Beach</strong> <strong>County</strong> at year 5. Statistically significant differences wereobserved between these groups of mothers in terms of their race/ethnicity, nativity, and education.Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago 15

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