Background The risk of end stage renal disease (ESRD) is increased among individuals with low income and in low income communities. However, few studies have examined the relation of both individual and community socioeconomic status (SES) with incident ESRD. Methods Among 23,314 U.S. adults ...
Bridging the Numeracy Gap for Students in Low SES Communities: The Power of a Whole School Approach. This paper explores the impact of the Bridging the Numeracy Gap Project on the whole-number learning of Prep and Grade 1 students living in a low SES commu... A Gervasoni,L Parish,C Upton...
Flooding is among the most prevalent natural hazards, with particularly disastrous impacts in low-income countries. This study presents global estimates of the number of people exposed to high flood risks in interaction with poverty. It finds that 1.81 billion people (23% of world population) are...
Poverty and opportunity structure in rural America. Rural areas have a disproportionate share of the US poverty population. Like poor urban communities, the persistence and severity of poverty in rural Ameri... AR Tickamyer,CM Duncan - 《Annual Review of Sociology》...
He underscored the need to increase support for key counties that receive assistance in their pursuit of rural revitalization, and for areas whose residents have been relocated from unfit areas to resettle together in communities. He called for accelerated efforts to establish a regular support mechan...
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So here’sa final chartshowing that all income groups in China have enjoyed dramatic increases in prosperity. The bottom line is that the people of China aremuch better offthanks to the partial shift to free markets. Yes, the data shows that the rich got richer faster than everyone else got...
Poverty, or “the pronounced deprivation of well-being”, still affected an estimated 767 million people worldwide in 2013 despite remarkable efforts [1]. Such deprivation can refer to income (i.e., low individual or household income) and non-income dimensions such as limited education, unemploy...
creation, the industry’s irresponsible practices have instead led to the long-term disenfranchisement of local communities (which are disproportionately indigenous). Within this discourse, the literature pays some attention to the gendered aspects of worsening poverty and shifts in labour. In certain ...
families, and communities out of poverty. Some countries have stronger welfare states (social safety nets) than others. For instance, the United States tends to be much more individualistic and has relatively limited welfare programs. European countries, in comparison, have a much broader range ofw...