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The annual amount of income necessary to provide for any agreed-upon set of basic needs is equally difficult to determine. In addition, the poverty index, although offering a constant yardstick to measure progress, is imprecise at best. Only a poverty threshold retained at one-half of the ...
METHODSBody mass index data were collected from third to fifth grade public school students by teachers from 317 urban and rural North Carolina schools in 38 counties. Multilevel models are used to examine county-, school-, and individual-level effects. RESULTSLow concentrations of poverty at the...
was a rural backwater with a rich history. During the war of 1812 federal documents were kept safe there from the English. Today it is the wealthiest county in America. Rolling pastures have given way to technology firms, swathes of companies that thrive on government contracts and pristine ne...
Locally, Cook County has nearly 135,236 families in income poverty, which is a poverty rate of approximately 11.4 percent. The poverty rate among children aged 0-5 is 22.1 percent in Cook County. 7 The City of Chicago has approximately 87,515 families in income poverty, which accounts for ...
Acknowledgements Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Division of Adolescent and School Health Nancy Brener Davis, PhD Nancy Brener Davis, PhD Terry O’Tool, PhD Terry O’Tool, PhD Manuscript in press with the Journal of the American Dietetic Association Funded by the National Cancer Institute...
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4.2.2. Agro-Tourism Integration Index System Construction Regarding the selection of indicators for measuring the development level of agro-tourism integration, this study draws on existing research ideas and methods and believes that the essence of agro-tourism integration development is the integration...