In the United States, the poverty rate is a specific calculation of what a household needs to subsist at a modest level. Ms. Ghilarducci’s numbers, however, come from the left-leaning bureaucrats at the Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. And they have a make...
Compare your income with the Federal Poverty Level (FPL) to calculate the premium subsidy tax credit for health insuance under the Affordable Care Act.
Poverty rates at the state level had a wide range, from 7.2% in New Hampshire to roughly 14% and higher in each of the 10 states with the highest poverty rates. Between 2022 and 2023, the poverty rate decreased in seven states, increased in three and did not change significantly in 4...
Healthcare cost associations of patients who use illicit drugs in Florida: a retrospective analysis. Subst Abuse Treat Prev Policy. 2020;15:73. Article PubMed PubMed Central Google Scholar Mark TL, Woody GE, Juday T, Kleber HD. The economic costs of heroin addiction in the United States. ...
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...
First we identify, for each program, a state to serve as the benchmark for state-level generosity or inclusiveness, ensuring that what we model is generally feasible to achieve in other states. Second, we simulate the changes in the child poverty rate that would result if all states enacted...
Climate change presents an imminent threat to almost all biological systems across the globe. In recent years there have been a series of studies showing how changes in climate can impact infectious disease transmission. Many of these publications focus
In a Chicago Tribune op-ed, for instance, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, an extremely likely 2016 candidate, wrote, "We have spent trillions of dollars in the War on Poverty, and poverty not only persists, it is as intractable as ever. This represents a broken promise. And it...
Participants who had missing data on some variables were not removed from the sample data set, as multilevel models will allow estimation with missing cases as more waves of data are collected. The sample sizes used for each analysis appear in eAppendix 2 in the Supplement. Analyses using the...
3), indicating that malaria incidence in Myanmar was not randomly distributed but rather occurred as clusters among adjacent townships. Also, in the autocorrelation analysis of the monthly incidence from 2011 to 2016 (based on region-level data), we found that the incidence was positively ...