Innovation in social policy : evaluating state efforts to reform welfare, promote work, and help low-income families / Social policy and marriage / Working families should not be poor : the new hope program / Who will care when parents can't? An overview of trends in kinship care with a focus on the child-only provisions of the temporary assistance to needy families program / Understanding the processes through which economic hardship influences families and children / Early childhood education and care : an opportunity to enhance the lives of poor children / Appalachian families and poverty : historical issues and contemporary economic trends / Poverty and economic polarization among children in racial minority and immigrant families / Processes of poverty and social exclusion in poor families / Mexican American families and poverty / Mexican immigrant childbearing women : social support and perinatal outcomes / Food insecurity and provisioning : chronic challenges faced by families living in poverty on the northern Cheyenne Indian reservation / How economically disadvantaged are American elderly women? Gender differences in economic well-being in old age / The effect of socioeconomic status on the community functioning of people with serious mental illness and their families / Addiction and Medicaid : a prairie sighting of Califano's "Elephant in the living room of American society" and state budgets / Incarceration, poverty, and families / Children's time use and parental involvement in low-income families / Cognitive and emotional outcomes for children in poverty / Challenging social inequalities in health / Giving Head Start a fresh start / Grandparents : a family resource? / Poor fathers' involvement in the lives of their children / The health-care safety net for Mexican-origin families / Federal policy efforts to improve outcomes among disadvantaged families by supporting marriage and family stability / Microenterprise : building well-being among poor U.S. families / Working with families in poverty : toward a multilevel, population-based approach / Increasing marriage would dramatically reduce child poverty