Poverty is a key indicator of economic hardship. By providing a geographic adjustment for cost of living, the recently developed Supplemental Poverty Measure has upended long-held views that poverty is higher in rural compared to urban America. In this study, we unpack the geographic adjustment ...
Why is the poverty rate higher in the United States than in several other industrialized nations, including Canada, Australia, and Germany?相关知识点: 试题来源: 解析 答案:Because they have more generous social programs for the poor and a higher minimum wage than the United States....
We find that in Spain inequality is higher, and the poor (especially the ultrapoor) are poorer than those in the Czech Republic, which offsets the poverty reduction effect of Spain's higher mean income and renders its poverty level higher....
America has one of the highest poverty rates among developed countries. Escaping poverty is mainly down to luck, no matter what the bootstrap brigade wants you to believe. If you’re lucky enough to be born in the right place to the right family, you’re unlikely ever to experience real ...
Banerjee's research provides a new perspective for governments to understand poverty, so that policies can be tailored to decrease poverty and ultimately eliminate(消除) it. 1 How do the poor deal with the issue of health? A. They spend less money in preventing disease. B. They focus more...
Why is poverty so difficult to overcome? Why are poorer people less likely to spend money on their own learning and ability development, but more likely to be addicted to television and video games?In the past, a poor person was normally considered to have bad virtue or have no ambition. ...
Poverty is often thought of as an inevitable social condition, and the blame for any shortcomings in governmental welfare policies is frequently placed upon the failings of individuals, markets, and demography. By exploring the influence of neoliberal politics on archaeologies of slum-life this articl...
/ People with incomes below the poverty line are considered poor. / As the general standard of living rises, / the poverty line does, too. / Therefore, even with today"s relatively high standard of living, / about 10 percent of the people in the United States are below the poverty line...
Poverty is not due to lack of resources, nor generally either to incapacity or lack of motivation. It is essentially always due to bad politics, specifically, a manifold of devices and initiatives that impede the freedom necessary for people to get their jobs done. The freedom we need is bot...
It is a paradox that three of the most significant paradigms in poverty research fail to focus directly on extreme poverty. This failure is due not only to the complexity of extreme poverty, but also to the structure of the paradigms, their built-in limitations and the fact that research on...