raceUSAA looming question for U.S. social policy is whether the over 50-year old federal poverty measure paints an accurate picture of the poor in America today. A panel of experts from the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), commissioned by Congress to address the key shortcomings of the ...
Charted: How America’s Poverty Rates Differ by Race This was originally posted on our Voronoi app. Download the app for free on iOS or Android and discover incredible data-driven charts from a variety of trusted sources. The U.S. poverty rate stands at 12%, affecting about 41 million peo...
Challenges To Equality: Poverty and Race in America The intersection of race and gender present challenges to the studies of aging and life course. The higher rates of African-American women experiencing fun... W Katz-Fishman,HJ Gans,John Calmore,... - Challenges To Equality: Poverty and Race...
Poverty & Race in America includes over six-dozen works originally published between mid-2001 and 2005, many of which have been updated and revised. The contributors represent the best of progressive thought and activism on America's two most salient, and seemingly intractable, domestic problems-...
Divided into topical sections, this volume considers the issues of race, poverty, housing, education, health, and democracy. Poverty & Race in America is especially concerned with the links between...Chester Hartman
Or is the menu of policy options determined by forces beyond their direct control? We answer these questions using a comprehensive cross-sectional database linking voter preferences to local policy outcomes in more than 2,000 midsize cities and a new panel covering cities in two states. Overall...
BackgroundRace, sex, and poverty are associated with the use of diagnostic cardiac catheterization and coronary revascularization during treatment of acute myocardial infarction (AMI). However, the association of sociodemographic characteristics with the use of less costly, more readily available medical th...
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...
A chart showing theexplosive growth of social welfare spendingin Western nations. A chart showing how redistribution programscreate very high implicit tax rates. I augment those visuals with other analysis, such as my two-part series (hereandhere) on the right and wrong way to reduce poverty (...
Poverty status in the U.S. is assigned to people whose income falls under a certain threshold, which is set by theDepartment of Health and Human Services (HHS).2U.S. poverty rates, or the percentage of the U.S. population living in poverty, are calculated by the U.S.Census Bureau.3...