…the old-age poverty rate in the US is 23%, compared to about 15% in the United Kingdom, 12% in Canada, 4.4% in France, and just 3.1% in the Netherlands. Since there are massive problems with Social Security, I agree with Ms. Ghilarducci that America’s retirement system isn’t ...
However, there is also a growing literature examining bisexual health that proposes a role for “double discrimination,” whereby bisexual individuals experience stigma and minority stress from both within and beyond the LGBTQ community (Colledge et al. 2015; Feinstein and Dyar 2017). It is ...
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Strange that 130 years after this verse was written, and 110 years after it was enshrined at the Statue of Liberty, the golden door is tarnished, and now our shore is teeming with the tired, poor, and huddled masses yearning to breathe free. Young, old,
"If large tracts of the country are full of people not reaching their full potential, then the country as a whole isn't reaching its full potential," Fikri noted. To be sure, some Americans who live within persistently impoverished communities aren't poor. Regardless of their income, ...
(1996). Changes in the Distribution of Poverty across and within the US Metropolitan Areas, 1979-89. Urban Studies, 33(9), 1581-1600.Madden, J.F. 1996. Changes in the distribution of poverty across and within the US metropolitan areas, 1979-89. Urban Studies. 33(9): 1581-1600....
Wage differentials are treated without much probing into this important subject, and job differentials within the plant are treated as a cursory appendage to the chapter on short-run wage determination. Although the documentation is generally excellent, it is skipped over at some important points ...
Within a few months, mass starvation began. Pictures and television clips of African children with distended bellies started to flood into American homes. This was the first time the average American had seen these sort of images. It was the unofficial birth of media humanitarianism. ...
The persistence of poverty, however, did appear to be greater within the US. This difference may reflect variations in welfare policies between the two countries over the time periods studied, which are not represented in the classification used. Further, we observed an early life sensitive period...
Rates of infant and maternal mortality/morbidity in the United States, some of the highest among industrialized nations, are also concerning, said Dr. Wanda Barfield, director of the Division of Reproductive Health within the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. ...