The main components of this web site can also be downloaded as a single text document. Both MS Word and WordPerfect formats are available. Data sets from the Current Population Survey and Survey of Income and Program Participation with national, state and MSA data for income, poverty, employment, education, health insurance, housing, aging and household demographics. Catalog of Federal Domestic Program Consolidated Federal Funds Report. Federal grants, contracts and entitlements to states, counties, cities and townships for the period 1985-94.
Data is available by type and subject.
Green Book, 1996. Statistics on federal entitlement programs, including Social Security, AFDC and Medicare. The Urban Institute's New Federalism Project For those interested in monitoring the impact of the transfer of social program funding from the federal to the state level, the Urban Institute's multi-year research project provides a good resource for data, case studies and analyses. The site also provides a comprehensive database including all states and the District of Columbia to determine and compare state performance in welfare, social programs, poverty and development. The database is the most complete research for social researchers which is publicly available via the Internet.