How Many Generations Under Your Roof?

In This Issue

Grams and Gramps

Gulf War Vets

Depths of Poverty

Issue: #446

October 24, 2016

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The Census Information Center of Eastern Oklahoma provides access to data generated from the US Census Bureau and through the Community Service Council's Data and Systems Development Task Forces.

Grandparents Day 2016
Celebrated every year since 1978 to honor our nation's grandparents, this edition of Facts for Features presents updates of statistics about their role in our society. Click here for more.

The Gulf War Era Veterans

The focus of this analysis is on veterans who served on active duty in the U.S. Armed Forces only from August 1990 or later. Gulf War-era veterans who served since 1990 are the most recent cohort of wartime veterans and make up about 35 percent of the current working-age veteran population (see Figure 1).2 They are also a large and growing segment of the veteran population, making them a cohort of particular interest, but about which minimal economic research has been done. Much of the past research on post-military economic outcomes of wartime veterans focused on Vietnam-era and World War II veterans. Very few, if any, World War II and Korean War veterans are still in the labor force-none are in the working-age population defined here-and the majority of the Vietnam-era veterans are nearing retirement age.

Veterans who entered the Armed Forces after 1990 also had a substantially different military experience than their predecessors. During the 1990s, significant changes in legislation and policy opened up over 80 percent of the services' career positions to military servicewomen. The nature of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq also changed the kind of work done by men and women in the Armed Forces. The occupational experiences of Gulf War-era veterans while in the military could be expected to have some impact on the kinds of occupations they hold once they leave the military.

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Poverty 2014 and 2015

The poverty rate measures the percentage of people whose income fell below their assigned poverty threshold. Poverty thresholds are assigned to individuals or families based on family size and composition. Planners and policy makers often use poverty rates as a key economic indicator to evaluate trends and current economic conditions within communities and to make comparisons between sectors of the population. Federal and state governments frequently use poverty rate estimates to allocate funds to local communities. Furthermore, government agencies and local organizations use these estimates to identify the number of individuals and families eligible for various programs.

This brief uses the 2014 and 2015 American Community Surveys (ACS) 1-year data to analyze poverty rates for 2015 as well as the change in poverty from 2014 for the nation, states and the District of Columbia, and the most populous metropolitan areas. The brief will also discuss the depth of poverty, which measures the distribution of people by income-to-poverty ratio.

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Until Next Week,

Jan Figart

Census Information Center

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About the CIC: The Census Information Center of Eastern Oklahoma provides access to data generated from the US Census Bureau and through the Community Service Council's Data and Systems Development Task Forces.

About the CIC:

The Census Information Center of Eastern Oklahoma provides access to data generated from the US Census Bureau and through the Community Service Council's Data and Systems Development Task Forces.