Families on Welfare: Focus on Teenage Mothers Could Enhance Welfare
Reform Efforts (Letter Report, 05/31/94, GAO/HEHS-94-112).

Welfare families headed by women who have either less than a high school
education, little recent work experience, or children younger than age 6
are less likely to get off welfare quickly than are other families.
These characteristics are especially prevalent among teenage mothers
receiving welfare.  Moreover, being a teenage mother has long-term
implications for the welfare system. Together, current and former
teenage mothers make up a large percentage of the welfare caseload,
totalling nearly 42 percent of all single women on welfare in 1992.  And
they are among the poorest welfare recipients--more than half of women
who gave birth as teenagers had total family incomes below 50 percent of
the poverty line in 1992.

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 REPORTNUM:  HEHS-94-112
     TITLE:  Families on Welfare: Focus on Teenage Mothers Could Enhance 
             Welfare Reform Efforts
      DATE:  05/31/94
   SUBJECT:  Employment or training programs
             Aid to families with dependent children
             Disadvantaged persons
             Demographic data
             Welfare recipients
             Single parents
             Women
             Minors
             Reprogramming of appropriated funds
             Welfare benefits
IDENTIFIER:  AFDC
             Job Opportunities and Basic Skills Training Program
             Medicaid Program
             Food Stamp Program
             JOBS Program
             
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