with the number of full-time employees increasing year over year, the share of women working full time year-round reaching an all-time high and an increase in income for households run by someone with no high school diploma. But they also faced ...
In this issue of JAMA Pediatrics, Copeland et al1 report on a 20-year follow-up of children, now adults, who were part of a natural experiment of cash transfers to some families. Due to an opening of a casino on the tribal lands located in the southeastern US, which coinc...
I accept that the main cause of economic inequality in the United States, and thus of poverty and near poverty, is that the United States uses a more or less free market to allocate resources, and hence household income is mainly the result of the demand for and supply of labor. In rece...
There are several different measurements of the poverty level in the US, including the poverty threshold, which is the...
An initial finding was the feminization of poverty in the US in the mid-1970s. Although the poverty rates of women and men in the US had dropped substantially since the 1950s, the composition of the poor had changed dramatically so that women were overwhelmingly in the majority. In many ...
For example, if an international poverty line of US$2 is used instead of US$1, the head-count measure of poverty rises from 52.5% to 88.8% in India and from 11.6% to 57.0% in Pakistan (World Bank, 1998a, Table 2.7). The size and composition (in terms of age and sex) of the ...
In 2015, the UN adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and 17 SDGs were proposed. "Poverty Reduction in China: Achievements, Experience and International Cooperation", organized and editored by us, covers also other SDGs in addition to focusing on SDG ...
Levine JA. Poverty and obesity in the US. Diabetes 2011;60:2667-8.U.S. National Library of Medicine, "Poverty and Obesity in the U.S", 2011 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3198075/Levine, JA. Poverty and obesity in the US. Diabetes 2011;60:2667-8....
We suggest that comparisons to formal food insecurity and fuel poverty recognition and national responses in the US and UK, respectively, can help inform the development of more comprehensive US responses to energy poverty going forward. Despite its prevalence, energy poverty is not formally ...
So, considering the interplay between pollution, exposure, and poverty can shed light on the vulnerability of affected populations. Combining air pollution exposure estimates with survey-based subnational poverty data allows us to estimate exposure of the global population living in poverty (Table 1)....