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References For current information on TANF caseload trends, see http://www.dss.state.mo.us/wreform/stats.htm. For information on characteristics of those currently receiving welfare in Missouri, see http://www.dss.state.mo.us/wreform/stats.htm. To download the PowerPoint presentation, Poverty At Issue: Making Ends Meet in Missouri 2001, go to http://outreach.missouri.edu/cfe/poverty It is a joint creation of University Outreach and Extension and Reform Organization of Welfare Education Association. To see The Missouri Self-Sufficiency Standard: Necessary Wages for Essential Needs, go to http://www.ded.state.mo.us/business/researchandplanning/community/welfare/self-suffc.shtml. To see Becca Newman’s thesis, A Basic Need for Rural Single Mothers, go to http://outreach.missouri.edu/cfe/poverty/basicneed.htm. Current poverty thresholds are available at http://aspe.hhs.gov/poverty/poverty.htm. The Expenditures on Children by Families 2000 Annual Report can be downloaded in PDF at http://www.usda.gov/cnpp/Crc/Crc2000.pdf. Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, 2001 Earned IncomeTax Credit Campaign Kit. Haskins, R. and Blank, R. Welfare reform reauthorization, Poverty Research News, Nov./Dec. 2001, Vol. 5, No. 6, Joint Center for Poverty Research. Haskins, R. and Primus, W. Welfare reform and beyond, The Brookings Institution, Policy Brief No. 4, July 2001. Lino, M. 2001. USDA’s expenditures on children by families project: Uses and changes over time. U.S. Department of Agriculture, Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion, Family Economics and Nutrition Review 13(1):81-86. MRI Study on the Status of Persons Leaving Welfare, prepared for the Missouri Department of Social Services by Midwest Research Institute http://www.mriresearch.org/services/Social/social_intro.htm#Study, January 2000 – August 2000. Procter, B. Poverty At Issue, University Outreach and Extension, University of Missouri, Fall 1996 http://outreach.missouri.edu/cfe/poverty/pvrtyf96.htm. Stark, C. 2001 (May/June). Food costs of raising children. Cornell Cooperative Extension Food and Nutrition: Timely Topics in Food, Diet and Health website http://www.cce.cornell.edu/programs/food/fdharchives/050601/foodcosts.htm.
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