Table 23

Benefit-Cost Analysis of GAIN, 1993 Dollars

                                           

  Net present value of benefits minus costs for:
  Welfare
Recipients
Government
Budgets
Taxpayers
 
Society (taxpayers
& recipients)
 
All single parents 923 -833 -990 -67
Single parents not
needing basic
education
2340
 
 
-622
 
 
-824
 
 
1516
 
 
Single parents needing
basic education
-177
 
-391
 
-530
 
-647
 
Heads of 2-parent
families
-186
 
-607
 
-652
 
-838
 
Single parents in:
  Alameda 1090 -3054 -3193 -2103
  Butte 1585 54 -133 1452
  Los Angeles -1561 -3442 -3485 -5046
  Riverside 1900 2936 2559 4458
  San Diego 948 767 702 1649
  Tulare 1577 -2261 -2396 -819

Source: Riccio, Friedlander, and Freedman (1994), Table 7.7, 7.10.