“For many Americans who live at or below the poverty threshold, access to healthy foods at a reasonable price is a challenge that often places a strain on already limited resources and may compel them to make food choices that are contrary to current nutritional guidance. To help alleviate this problem, the U.S. Department of… Continue Reading
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Building a Financial Structure for a More Stable and Equitable Economy
Press release: “Its time to put global finance back in its proper place as a tool to achieving sustainable development. This means substantial downsizing, careful re-regulation, universal social protections, and an active, permanent employment-creation program. Therefore, the 2013 Minsky Conference will address both financial reform and poverty in the context of Minskys work on financial… Continue Reading
2013 edition of World Development Indicators
“The 2013 edition of World Development Indicators (WDI), released today, includes the latest available data on global development, poverty, the quality of people’s lives, the environment, the economy, the functioning of states and markets, and global links of finance, trade, and migration…This years edition has been substantially improved, with expanded highlights based on trends in… Continue Reading
BLS – A Profile of the Working Poor, 2011
A Profile of the Working Poor, 2011 [April 2013] “In 2011, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, about 46.2 million people, or 15.0 percent of the nations population, lived below the official poverty level. Although the poor were primarily children and adults who had not participated in the labor force during the year, according to… Continue Reading
Trafficking in Persons: U.S. Policy and Issues for Congress
Trafficking in Persons: U.S. Policy and Issues for Congress, Alison Siskin, Specialist in Immigration Policy – Liana Sun Wyler, Analyst in International Crime and Narcotics – February 19, 2013 “Trafficking in persons (TIP) for the purposes of exploitation is believed to be one of the most prolific areas of contemporary international criminal activity and is… Continue Reading
Second-Generation Americans A Portrait of the Adult Children of Immigrants
“Second-generation Americansthe 20 million adult U.S.-born children of immigrantsare substantially better off than immigrants themselves on key measures of socioeconomic attainment, according to a new Pew Research Center analysis of U.S. Census Bureau data. They have higher incomes; more are college graduates and homeowners; and fewer live in poverty. In all of these measures, their… Continue Reading
Medical Care Economic Risk: Measuring Financial Vulnerability from Spending on Medical Care
“The United States has seen major advances in medical care during the past decades, but access to care at an affordable cost is not universal. Many Americans lack health care insurance of any kind, and many others with insurance are nonetheless exposed to financial risk because of high premiums, deductibles, co-pays, limits on insurance payments,… Continue Reading
Coping with the Great Recession: Disparate Impacts on Economic Well-Being in Poor Neighborhoods
Coping with the Great Recession: Disparate Impacts on Economic Well-Being in Poor Neighborhoods, Robert I. Lerman and Sisi Zhang. January 7, 2013. “This study examines how residents of high- and low-poverty neighborhoods fared in terms of employment, wealth, and housing losses during the Great Recession, using the Panel Study of Income Dyanmics. While residents of… Continue Reading
New Report on Single-Parent Families in the United States
Worst Off Single-Parent Families in the United States, A Cross-National Comparison of Single Parenthood in the U.S. and Sixteen Other High-Income Countries by Timothy Casey and Laurie Maldonado. December 2012 – “is an exhaustive, critical analysis of data and information drawn from a broad range of sources including government agencies, social scientists, and academic… Continue Reading
Report – Worst Off Single-Parent Families in the United States
Worst Off Single-Parent Families in the United States, A Cross-National Comparison of Single Parenthood in the U.S. and Sixteen Other High-Income Countries, by Timothy Casey, Laurie Maldonado. The Women’s Legal Defense and Education Fund, December 2012. This report “is an exhaustive, critical analysis of data and information drawn from a broad range of sources… Continue Reading
Hunger Report Calls on U.S. Leadership to End Hunger Within a Generation
“A new report issued by the Bread for the World Institute reveals the extraordinary progress many countries around the world have made in achieving the development goals they agreed to 12 years ago. However, programs that support these efforts could be derailed, depending on the outcome of ongoing U.S. negotiations to avert the fiscal cliff.… Continue Reading
Current Population Survey: 2011
Current Population Survey: 2011 “The tables include detailed statistics about five-year age groups by sex, the 55-and-older population, the Hispanic population, the black population and the Asian population. The tables provide a wide range of social, economic and housing characteristics, such as marital status, educational attainment, nativity, employment status, occupation, poverty and housing tenure. The… Continue Reading
