United StatesIn-work poverty became a prominent policy issue in the United States long before the term itself acquired any meaning and relevance in other industrialized countries. With America's embrace of an employment-centered antipoverty strategy, the working poor have become even more of an ...
All modern societies grapple with the issue of poverty. The United States is the richest country in the world, and yet poverty has been an issue for decades. The United States is a place where extremes in income continue to be a subject of concern for the federal and state government, lob...
Poverty in the United States, a report by the US Bureau of the Census, revealed that over 5 million US children under the age of 18 live in conditions of poverty. This statistic represents 20 percent of the total population of this age group and an increase of 2 million since the early...
An introduction to the journal is presented in which the editor discusses topics featured in the issue including social determinants of health, health of young African American men, and designing an equitable health care system.BauchnerHowardJAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association...
In the west, however, the impoverishment of the masses is widening, and the increasing population of children and elderly living in poverty is particularly worrying. Currently in Italy, 5 million people are in poverty, and in the United States the number is more than 40 million and growing. ...
In 2007, 12.5% of Americans were officially counted as poor by the United States Census Bureau. People from every region, race, age, and sex are counted among our nation's poor, where ―poor‖ is defined as living in a family with an income below the federal poverty level. In contrast...
But her numbers on old-age poverty seem very strange. How can the poverty rate be much higher in the United States when theother countries she mentions have much lower living standards? Notice, though, that she wrote that poverty is “defined as half the median income or lower.” ...
The Feminization of Poverty in the United StatesGender, Race, Ethnicity, and Family Factors This article delineates the contribution of gender, race, ethnicity, marital, and parental status to the feminization of poverty. Its analysis of recent pu... ME Starrels,S Bould,LJ Nicholas - 《Journal...
North Pare Mountains in Mwanga District of Tanzania's northern highlands are part of the Kilimanjaro coffee zone, and coffee has led the local economy of t... J Ikeno - 《African Study Monographs Supplementary Issue》 被引量: 12发表: 2007年 Carbon Pools and Poverty Peaks in Lao PDR northwes...
In the west, however, the impoverishment of the masses is widening, and the increasing population of children and elderly living in poverty is particularly worrying. Currently in Italy, 5 million people are in poverty, and in the United States the number is more than 40 million and growing. ...