Definition: Number of children receiving at least $10 of CalWORKs cash aid in the month of January, per 1,000 children ages 0-17 (e.g., in January 2024, the rate of participation in CalWORKs among children in Alameda County was 46.2 per 1,000).
Data Source: California Dept. of Social Services, CalWORKs Cash Grant Caseload Movement Report; California Dept. of Finance, Population Estimates and Projections (Oct. 2024).
Footnote: California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs) is a welfare program that provides cash aid and services to eligible needy families in California. CalWORKs defines a child as a person who is either (a) under age 18, or (b) over age 18 and expecting to graduate from a full-time high school, vocational, or technical program before age 19. The notation S refers to rates for 2019 and earlier that have been suppressed because fewer than 20 children participated in CalWORKs, and to numbers and rates for 2020 and later than have been suppressed to protect confidentiality. N/A means that county-level data are not available or state-level data are not reported.
