EXHIBIT 5.

Per Capita Social Welfare Spending On Children And Elders, 1980–2000

SOURCE: Authors’ analysis of data on a variety of social welfare components. See Exhibit 3 sources and an online appendix content.healthaffairs.org/cgi/content/full/23/5/131/DC1, for full bibliographic details.

NOTE: Changes in per capita spending for each time interval are presented in 2000 constant dollars. Changes in per capita spending were calculated as A–B. where A is per capita spending in year 2 and B is per capita spending in year 1.