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adjusted adults AFDC age groups American assets Australia average Canada cash Census changes chapter child compared comparisons countries coverage decades decline demographic dependent distribution divorce earnings economic status economic well-being equivalence scale expenditures families with children family benefits family income fungible Gini coefficient growth health care health insurance health status higher household head income-to-needs ratio increase indicators inequality Japan Japanese labor force less means-tested measure median Medicaid Medicare Netherlands nonelderly nonwhite Norway OECD overall parents pattern percent percentage perinatal mortality period political poor population poverty line poverty rates poverty threshold programs proportion relative Research retirement single-parent families social insurance social policy Social Security benefits Source Statistics Statistics Sweden substantially Survey Sweden Switzerland transfers trends two-parent families U.S. Congress U.S. poverty unemployment United Kingdom University wage welfare well-being of children West Germany women workers young