The major sources used in developing the analysis and recommendations contained in this report are listed under each chapter head. In addition, the following sources were used in calculating the figures on income, demographics, benefits, program expenditures, and new revenue outlays cited throughout the report:

Bureau of the Census, Current Population Survey (cps), Money Income of Families, Households and Persons in the United States: 1987, and Characteristics of the Population Below the Poverty Line (August 1988).

Committee on Ways and Means, U.S. House of Representatives, Background Material and Data on Programs Within the Jurisdiction of the Committee on Ways and Means (March 1988).

Congressional Budget Office, Reducing the Deficit: Spending and Revenue Options, A Report to the Senate and House Committees on the Budget (Annual Report, March 1989).

Chapter One-Reexamining Our Social Welfare System

Bernstein, Merton, and Joan Bernstein, Social Security (New York: Basic Books, 1988).

Cherlin, Andrew (ed.), The Changing American Family and Public Policy (Washington, D.C.: Urban Institute Press, 1988).

Ellwood, David, Divide and Conquer, Occasional Paper 1, Ford Foundation Project on Social Welfare and the American Future (New York: Ford Foundation, 1987).

Gueron, Judith, Reforming Welfare with Work, Occasional Paper 2, Ford Foundation Project on Social Welfare and the American Future (New York: Ford Foundation, 1987).

Harris, Louis, Inside America (New York: Random House, 1987).