FY 2004 Census Report: Income, Poverty, and Health Coverage in the United States
This report presents data on income, poverty, and health insurance coverage in the United States based on information collected in the 2005 and earlier Annual Social and Economic Supplements (ASEC) to the Current Population Survey (CPS) conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau.

2010 HHS Poverty Guidelines
The poverty guidelines are the other version of the federal poverty measure. They are issued each year in the Federal Register by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The guidelines are a simplification of the poverty thresholds for use for administrative purposes — for instance, determining financial eligibility for certain federal programs.

2010 KIDS COUNT Databook by the Annie E Casey Foundation
KIDS COUNT is a national and state-by-state effort to track the status of children in the U.S. This site focuses on an interactive presentation of data from the annual Data Book, the signature product of the KIDS COUNT initiative.

"A Framework for Understanding Poverty"
This book provides a detailed analysis about the ways that social class functions work in our social system. It also provides step-by-step "how to" lesson plans and exercises for helping people learn middle-class skills.

Married and Poor: Basic Characteristics of Economically Disadvantaged Couples in the U.S.
Using recent surveys and published reports, this working paper assembles a portrait of the attitudes and behaviors of disadvantaged married couples. It gathers and assesses descriptive statistics on the formation and stability, characteristics, and quality of marriages in the low-income population in the U.S

A Manager's Guide to Communication
As a manager, you are on the front line of communication—about your organization, goals, strategy, personnel, national issues, and how your people turn their mission and strategy into practice every day. You are the person staff and members turn to in order to find out how the organization is doing, what the game plan is, and to get feedback on their own performance. A manager creates an environment in which communication either flourishes or dries up. In the most successful and effective organizations, communication flourishes—at all levels.

Help On the Way: Communities Get the Results They Want from Peer Matches
A Unique and Detailed Approach to Technical Assistance

Guide for Peer Match Facilitators: A Companion to Help on the Way
A Unique and Detailed Technical Assistance Tool-Since 1995, as part of a broader effort to rely more intentionally on the direct experience of people working in the field, the Center for the Study of Social Policy (CSSP) has been working with several partners and funders to make peer matches available. Peer matches are structured opportunities for teams of people from different communities to learn from each other’s experiences. The process enables people to develop options for action that build community capacity to improve outcomes for neighborhoods, families and children.

Many Young Children Spend Long Hours in Child Care
Forty-two percent of children under age 5 with employed mothers spent at least 35 hours a week in child care in 2002. The proportion is even greater (50.6 percent) among children whose mothers worked full-time. These findings reinforce the important role that child care plays in the lives of America's youngest children.

Protecting Children by Strengthening Families: A Guidebook for Early Childhood Programs
This is a program handbook and self-assessment tool for programs that are interested in enhancing their ability to support and strengthen families. 

Public Benefits: Easing Poverty and Ensuring Medical Coverage
By: The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities; " When individuals and families experience crises such as job loss, illness, disability, or divorce, they may face the prospect of falling into poverty (or becoming poorer) and losing health insurance coverage. Various government assistance programs are designed to lessen these hardships. These programs also provide support when families work but have low earnings and when people reach retirement age."

Reality Check: Poor Excuses How Neglecting Poverty Costs All Americans 
Poor Excuses: How Neglecting Poverty Costs All Americans reveals that America's poor have been put in double jeopardy - with no new policies being enacted to help improve prospects for low-income households, while federal and state governments are cutting back some existing programs that assist poor families with housing, child care, and health care.

The State of the Nation's Housing
"Not surprisingly, housing challenges are most severe among those at the bottom of the income distribution. Fully half of lowest-income households spend at least 50 percent of their incomes on housing. Severely cost-burdened households in the bottom quintile by expenditures have little left over to pay for other basic necessities, spending just $161 on average each month on food and $34 on healthcare (Figure 5). By comparison, households in the bottom expense quintile that devote less than 20 percent of their budgets to housing managed to spend $80 more a month on food and $49 more on healthcare on average."