Expenditures per Capita on Means-Tested Programs other than Medicaid

Description: 

Total expenditures on means-tested public programs other than Medicaid in constant dollars, divided by the country’s total population.

Source: 

Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality, using the data underlying each of the indicators listed in the methodological notes.

Methodological Notes: 

“Means-tested programs” are programs for which only people with income or assets below some threshold are eligible.  The measure is constructed by summing the following indicators:

Expenditures per Capita on Supplemental Security Income
Expenditures per Capita on AFDC/TANF
Expenditures per Capita on the Federal EITC
Expenditures per Capita on Food Stamps/SNAP
Expenditures per Capita on Housing Aid
Expenditures per Capita on School Food Programs
Expenditures per Capita on the WIC Program
Expenditures per Capita on Head Start