Topic
Poverty
301 published works
PropertyProf Blog
Neighborhood Effects on Health Outcomes
By propertyprof
A new study in the New England Journal of Medicine shows that moving poor women to lower poverty neighborhoods improves their health:scholars from around the country studied 4,498 poor women…
ImmigrationProf Blog
From the Bookshelves: I’m Neither Here nor There: Mexicans’ Quotidian Struggles with Migration and Poverty by Patricia Zavella
I’m Neither Here nor There: Mexicans’ Quotidian Struggles with Migration and Poverty by Patricia Zavella I’m Neither Here nor There explores how immigration influences the construction of family, identity, and…
ImmigrationProf Blog
The Toll of the Great Recession: What About Latino Children?
The Toll of the Great Recession released by the Pew Hispanic Center documents and analyzes the spread of poverty across the United States that began at the onset of the Great…
The Right Coast
Wallace Kuralt’s era of sterilization | CharlotteObserver.com & The Charlotte Observer Newspaper
But Kuralt had no regrets. In writings and interviews throughout his life, he described sterilization and birth control as the key to saving tax money and rooting out poverty among…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Income, Poverty and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2010 US Census
The U.S. Census Bureau released the findings from their report, Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2010. This report found that in 2010, median household income…
International Law Prof Blog
Ban Ki-Moon Answers Questions from Facebook, LiveStream, and Twitter
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon took the United Nations pulpit live to cyberspace for the first time today, answering questions submitted through Facebook, LiveStream, Twitter and other social media networks on issues…
PropertyProf Blog
Map of the Day: Poverty and the London Riots
By propertyprof
Data junkie Matt Stiles has mapped incidents from the rioting in London and overlayed that with statistics on neighborhood deprivation. The interactive map feature shows that the trouble has been…
International Law Prof Blog
ECOSOC Session Ends in Geneva
The President of the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) has urged the implementation of decisions made at the body’s substantive session this year, which focused on the importance…
The Right Coast
A Country Where Poor People Are FatMike Rappaport
Robert Rector and Rachel Sheffield issue a report on the state of the poor in America. The short answer is that the poor, by historical standards, are doing well, enjoying…
The Right Coast
Markets and the PoorMike Rappaport
One way of measuring the progress of the poor over time is to see what the typical poor household is able to consume in different years. We actually do have…