Age, Gender & Gender Identities

New results released today by the National Center for Health Statistics show that the dependent-coverage provision of the Affordable Care Act has continued to produce insurance coverage gains among young adults during 2011.

Each year the Chafee Foster Care Independence Program provides $140 million for independent living services to assist youth as they age out of foster care and enter adulthood. Under this formula grant program, states are provided allocations and allowed to use up to 30 percent of program funds for room and board for youth ages 18 to 21 who have left care.

 

Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation U.S. Department of Health and Human Services June 2012 Printer Friendly Version in PDF Format: http://aspe.hhs.gov/daltcp/reports/2012/ltcinsRB.pdf (16 PDF pages)

Prepared under Contract from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation Purchase Order HHSP233200800278A Judy Ng, PhD Sarah Hudson Scholle, MPH, DrPH

The Affordable Care Act includes several provisions that are expected to significantly improve women's health. The Affordable Care Act improves coverage for important preventive services and maternity care, promotes higher quality care for older women, and ends the gender discrimination that requires women to pay more for the same insurance coverage as men.

The increasing labor supply of single mothers in the US labor market in the 1990s is well documented, but due to data deficiencies it generally has been difficult to track the progress in the labor market of this group.