Additionally, we find that LGB individuals utilize a range of government assistance programs at a higher rate than their heterosexual counterparts, even when allowing for selection into poverty status. These include SNAP and rental assistance for gay men, lesbian women, and bisexual individuals. This...
"The rise in the poverty rate, the largest on record in over 50 years both overall and for children, underscores the critical role that policy choices play in the level of poverty and hardship in the country," Parrot said. The Supplemental Poverty Measure (SPM), which measures whether people...
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"They have been impervious to multiple cycles of economic growth," he added. About 35 million Americans live in neighborhoods that are persistently poor, meaning that the area's poverty rate has remained above 20% for more than 30 years, according to Economic Innovation Group.EIG ...
Both demand and supply could affect ivory poaching rates, so we identified large-scale ivory seizures and mammoth ivory prices in the main Chinese markets as likely proxies for annual variation in ivory demand and used site- and country-level variables such as infant mortality rate (IMR), pover...
Over the past decade, child poverty grew in 38 states. Economic recession and housing foreclosures are among the major reasons, wiping out earlier gains, a new report finds.Report: Child Poverty Rate Hits 20 Percent in US as Families StruggleBy KnickerbockerBrad...
This caused protest in poverty-stricken Poplar, East London, leading to a system of rate redistribution from richer to poorer London boroughs.11 There were intermittent cuts to state welfare funding as the economy was hit by the international Depression, but protests, including in the 1930s '...
Mounting evidence is pointing to the world having entered a sixth mass extinction. If the current rate of extinction continues we could lose most species by 2200. The implication for human health and wellbeing is dire, but not inevitable. ...