Recently, the Census Bureau and a consortium of other Federal Agencies -- Food and Nutrition Service (USDA), National Center for Education Statistics (DoEd), Head Start (HHS), HUD, and the Employment and Training Administration (DoL) -- initiated a project to provide post-censal estimates of income and poverty for small areas during the 1990's. While current plans for the 2000 census include a system of "continuous measurement" which will periodically furnish Census-level measurements and estimates for small areas, in this decade, more traditional estimates are likely to be the only ones available.