Kentucky Commission on Poverty

FAMILIES FIRST
Empowering Kentucky's People and Communities

RESEARCH REPORT No. 273
Legislative Research Commission, Frankfort, Kentucky

The Commission's report to the
1996 Kentucky General Assembly
is provided below...

Executive Summary

Foreword

Table of Contents

Introduction

Poverty in Kentucky

Tables and Charts:

Poverty Threshholds

Kentucky Poverty

Poverty Highs

Adults with Children

Full-time Hours Worked

Income by Range

Children in Poverty

Adults Working 75% F-T

Kentucky Population

Children Under 18

Poverty Rates (map)

Poverty by Location

       Persons in Poverty

       ("spike" maps)

• Child Poverty
• Elderly Poverty
• Black Poverty

Poverty by Block Group

       Incidence of Poverty

       (color-coded maps)

• Child Poverty
• Elderly Poverty
• Black Poverty

Myths and Reality

Women in Poverty

Tables and Charts:

Female-headed Households

Children with Single Parent

Self-sufficiency Programs

Tables and Charts:

AFDC Benefits, 1995

AFDC Costs, Kentucky

Welfare to Work

Medicaid Income Limits

AFDC Costs, 1989-95

AFDC Populations, 1991-95

AFDC as % of Poverty

Economic Development

Tables and Charts:

Kentucky Enterprise Zones

Rural ED Authorities (map)

Education & Literacy Programs

Tables and Charts:

Education Programs

Vocational Programs

Higher Education

Empowering Local

Communities

Lessons...Future Vision

Bibliography

Appendix

Kentucky's Poverty (chart)

NOTE: a 319 kb file;

long load time

Lists poverty by index (percent),

people, children, elderly, black,

and families with children by

numbers and county rank.

Findings

More Findings

Recommendations

Recommendations

Concluding Thoughts

AACS Executive Director Ronald Logsdon was a member of the Kentucky Commission on Poverty, 1993-97