Principles and Guidelines for Deficit Reduction, Joseph E. Stiglitz | The Roosevelt Institute, December 2010 “Median income has declined by some 5% over the past decadeand was even in decline before the recession. Poverty has increased from 11.9% in 1999 to 14.3% in 2009.1 Median income of males with only a high school education has… Continue Reading
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Great Recession Hit Hard at America's Working Poor: Nearly 1 in 3 Working Families in United States are Low-Income
Great Recession Hit Hard at America’s Working Poor – Nearly 1 in 3 Working Families in United States are Low-Income: The Working Poor Families Project, PolIcy Brief, Winter 2010-2011, Brandon Roberts, Deborah Povich and Mark Mather “The Great Recession hit hard at America’s working poor, increasing the number of low-income working families by 246,000 in… Continue Reading
Obesity and Socioeconomic Status in Children and Adolescents: United States, 2005-2008
Obesity and Socioeconomic Status in Children and Adolescents: United States, 20052008, Cynthia L. Ogden, Ph.D.; Molly M. Lamb, Ph.D.; Margaret D. Carroll, M.S.P.H.; and Katherine M. Flegal, Ph.D. CDC, National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) Data Brief No. 51 December 2010, In 20072008 almost 17% of children and adolescents aged 219 years were obese. Childhood… Continue Reading
U.S. Census Bureau Releases First Set of 5-Year American Community Survey Estimates – Maryland Remains Richest State
New York Times: “The counties with the three highest median household incomes are all in the Virginia suburbs of Washington. Falls Church led the pack with $113,313 per household, an increase of 17 percent since 2000. The county with the lowest median household income was Owsley, Ky., at $18,869.” Baltimore Sun: “Maryland’s median household income… Continue Reading
Calcuated Risk Documents Increase in Adult Children Living With Parents
Huffington Post: “Empty nest parents, be warned: the number of adults aged 25 to 34 who are living with their parents has exploded, according to this rather shocking chart put together by economist Tom Lawler and posted on Calculated Risk. Earlier this year, a study published in the journal Transitions to Adulthood titled What’s Going… Continue Reading
UN – The Least Developed Countries Report, 2010
News release: “While least developed countries(1) (LDCs) have weathered the global downturn better than was generally anticipated, they are still trapped in the boom-bust cycles which have long plagued their economies and their medium-term prospects are a cause for concern, UNCTAD´s Least Developed Countries Report 2010, Towards a new international development architecture for LDCs cautions.… Continue Reading
Basic Facts About Low-income Children, 2009
Basic Facts About Low-income Children, 2009 Children Under Age 18. Michelle Chau, Kalyani Thampi, and Vanessa R. Wight, October 2010 “Children represent 25 percent of the population. Yet, they comprise 36 percent of all people in poverty. Among children, 42 percent live in low-income families and approximately one in every five live in poor families.… Continue Reading
CBO: Unemployment Insurance Benefits and Family Income of the Unemployed
Unemployment Insurance Benefits and Family Income of the Unemployed, November 17, 2010 “The unemployment insurance (UI) program provides a weekly benefit to qualified workers who lose their job and are actively seeking work. The amount of that benefit is based in part on a workers past earnings. The composition of the workers family and the… Continue Reading
CDC – A record number of adults 18-64 years old are uninsured
“CDC Vital Signs offers recent data on the important health topics of key diseases, conditions, or risk factors. Data is gathered from CDC’s national monitoring systems to show progress in important areas of public health, and the ways people can increase their health, prevent or control disease. New 2010 estimates show that the number of… Continue Reading
CRS: Small Business Administration HUBZone Program
Small Business Administration HUBZone Program, Robert Jay Dilger, Senior Specialist in American National Government October 15, 2010 “The Small Business Administration (SBA) administers several programs to support small businesses, including the Historically Underutilized Business Zone Empowerment Contracting (HUBZone) program. The HUBZone program is a small business federal contracting assistance program “whose primary objective is job… Continue Reading
2010 Human Development Report: 40-year Trends Analysis Shows Poor Countries Making Faster Development Gains
News release: “Most developing countries made dramatic yet often underestimated progress in health, education and basic living standards in recent decades, with many of the poorest countries posting the greatest gains, reveals a detailed new analysis of long-term Human Development Index (HDI) trends in the 2010 Human Development Report, released here today. Yet patterns of… Continue Reading
Human Rights Council establishes Working Group on Discrimination against Women in Law and Practise
News release: “The UN Human Rights Council adopted a resolution in which it established for a period of three years a Working Group on the issue of discrimination against women in law and practise, and a decision in which it decided to hold a panel discussion on human rights in the context of action taken… Continue Reading
