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Long-Term Poverty and Disability Among Working-Age Adults

Mathematica Policy Research, Washington, DC

Gina A. Livermore

Mathematica Policy Research, Washington, DC, GLivermore{at}mathematica-mpr.com

The authors use longitudinal data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation spanning 1996 to 1999 to estimate the prevalence of short- and long-term poverty among working-age people with and without disabilities. Depending on the disability measure used, annual poverty rates are 2 to 5 times higher among people with disabilities compared to those without disabilities. The relative long-term poverty rates among those with disabilities are much higher than the relative short-term poverty rates. People with disabilities represented 47% of those in poverty in 1997 according to an annual measure of poverty and 65% of those in poverty according to a long-term measure. The reasons that disability receives little attention in the poverty literature may be that most statistics are based on short-term measures, which partially mask the strong relationship between long-term poverty and long-term disability, and outdated perceptions of the relationship between disability and the ability to work.

Key Words: poverty • disability • long-term poverty • long-term disability • Survey of Income and Program Participation

This version was published on March 1, 2009

Journal of Disability Policy Studies, Vol. 19, No. 4, 244-256 (2009)
DOI: 10.1177/1044207308314954


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