improve the community, combat poverty, and help people in financial emergencies. Programs include weatherization and energy assistance, child care, and housing development. They’re run by local, private, or public nonprofits.
The act prohibited denying or increasing banking costs to residents of racially defined neighborhoods, and encouraged efforts to meet the credit needs of all residents regardless of income level. [Pictured: President Jimmy Carter signs the Housing and Community Development Act on October 12, 1977.] ...
besides Mississippi—less than 30%of the national average, according to the 2022 Council for Community and Economic Research report. However, that's in part due to the fact that West Virginia's average income is low, and16.8% of the population lives in poverty, according to the Census ...
Republican legislators and then-Gov. Mitch Daniels created the program in 2011 with the sales pitch that it would help kids from low-income families escape “failing” public schools. As the program has expanded, they’ve long stopped pretending that was the point. ...
Development economists and management scholars have called for a more market-based approach to address the extreme poverty suffered by the billion people r... JS Mcmullen - 《Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice》 被引量: 179发表: 2011年 Institutions, engineering infrastructure, and performance in the...
(27.9%), and water quality (20.1%). Other highlighted concerns were air quality, soil quality, poverty, and obesity. Additional analyses to determine correlations of demographic characteristics with health outcomes are ongoing. These results contribute to our understanding of the health concerns among...
In a speechFriday, Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar said Indiana’s program “recognizes that Medicaid can become a pathway out of poverty.” Standing beside Gov. Eric Holcomb (R), Azar touted the work requirements as an important way to boost employment and to improve people’s...