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1 The situation is dire across Europe, and the Economist recently predicted that high fuel prices could kill more Europeans than the war in Ukraine2. Energy and transport poverty are particularly acute in the United Kingdom. There, an estimated 6.7 million households were in energy poverty in ...
In the USA, the gap between women's and men's poverty rates is the highest—about four percentage points. As would be expected—since the single population drives the gender differences in poverty—the gender gap in poverty rates is larger for single individuals than for the adult population ...
One concerns the welfare state, and more particularly, the program for single mothers and their children, formerly Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC). This is the most controversial program in the USA. The other is the Legal Services program for the poor that was part of the ...
摘要: Poverty and prosperity in the USA in the late twentieth century edited by Dimitri B. Papadimitriou and Edward N. Wolff (The Jerome Levy Economics Institute series) Macmillan Press, 1993关键词: Poor 出版时间: 1993/01/01 ISBN: 978-1-349-22955-0 被引量: 44 ...
Energy poverty (EPOV) is considered to have a significant impact on health and has become an essential issue on the policy agenda in most countries, especially those with rapid aging. Cognitive and mental health (CMH) for aging well is just as important a component as physical health, but ...
Rare infectious diseases of poverty (rIDPs) involve more than hundreds of tropical diseases, which dominantly affect people living in impoverished and marginalized regions and fail to be prioritized in the global health agenda. The neglect of rIDPs could impede the progress toward sustainable developme...
“A Lifetime of Punishment,” examined the impact of the PRWORA provision and found no evidence that this goal was being achieved. On the contrary, by denying benefits to those most in need, the ill-conceived embargo may be having a particularly devastating impact on women and children of ...
Money, Prison, and Slavery:Those links touch on the financial benefits wealthy people and large corporations receive from moving a large number of people into the prison system and keeping them there for as long as possible. In the USA slavery never went away, it just moved into the prison ...
In addition, the 1970s were a period of ‘rural renaissance’ in the USA, as the population of nonmetropolitan counties grew faster than that of metropolitan counties due to net metro-to-nonmetro migration (Fuguitt et al. 1989). These new realities of rural USA during the 1970s, along ...