Marital Status is Associated With Health Insurance Coverage for Working-age Women at all Income Levels, 2007. 8 pp. (PHS) 2009-1209. December 2008. “Overall, unmarried women aged 25-64 years are about 60% more likely than married women to lack health insurance coverage, but that disadvantage is not consistent across poverty status groups.” Continue Reading
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UN – World Economic Situation and Prospects 2008
World Economic Situation and Prospects 2009 World Economic Situation and Prospects 2008 World Economic Situation and Prospects 2009 Advance release of the Global Outlook 2009: “The world economy is mired in the severest financial crisis since the Great Depression. WESP of 2006, 2007 and 2008 had already warned of the risks for this to… Continue Reading
World Bank: Global Financial Crisis – Responding Today, Securing Tomorrow
Background Paper prepared by the World Bank Group, G20 Summit on Financial Markets and the World Economy, Washington, D.C. – November 15, 2008 – World Bank: Global Financial Crisis – Responding Today, Securing Tomorrow “Growth in developing-countries had been expected to reach 6.4 percent in 2009, but has been marked down to 4.5 percent. The… Continue Reading
World Bank: Global Financial Crisis and Implications for Developing Countries
World Bank: Global Financial Crisis and Implications for Developing Countries, G-20 Finance Ministers Meeting São Paulo, Brazil “The current financial crisis has evolved differently from other major crises that have hit the developing world in recent decades. Not only is it occurring in a world of unprecedented financial globalization, where the financial sector plays a… Continue Reading
UN Trade and Development Report 2008: Commodity prices, capital flows and the financing of investment
United Nations Conference on Trade and Development – Trade and Development Report 2008: Commodity prices, capital flows and the financing of investment, September 4, 2008 (234 pages, PDF) “The Trade and Development Report 2008, subtitled “Commodity Prices, Capital Flows and the Financing of Investment highlights the paradox that the capital poor developing world is exporting… Continue Reading
CDC: National, State, and Local Area Vaccination Coverage Among Children Aged 19–35 Months
CDC, Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, September 5, 2008: National National, State, and Local Area Vaccination Coverage Among Children Aged 19–35 Months – United States, 2007. “Maintaining high vaccination coverage and continued attention to reducing current poverty disparities is needed to limit the spread of vaccine-preventable diseases among children. According to 2007 National Immunization Survey… Continue Reading
Labor Department : A Profile of the Working Poor, 2006
A Profile of the Working Poor, 2006, Report No. 1006, Bureau of Labor Statistics: “In 2006, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, 36.5 million people, or 12.3 percent of the population, lived at or below the official poverty threshold, roughly the same number as in 2005. The majority of the Nations poor were children and… Continue Reading
World Bank: New Data Show 1.4 Billion Live On Less Than Us$1.25 A Day
News release: “The World Bank said improved economic estimates showed there were more poor people around the world than previously thought while also revealing big successes in the fight to overcome extreme poverty. The new estimates, which reflect improvements in internationally comparable price data, offer a much more accurate picture of the cost of living… Continue Reading
Joint Economic Committee Report: U.S. Families Are in Worse Economic Shape Now Than in 2000
News release: “Senator Charles E. Schumer and Representative Carolyn B. Maloney, Chairman and Vice-Chair of the Joint Economic Committee (JEC) released statements in reaction to troubling new data from the U.S. Census Bureau on household incomes, health care coverage, and poverty. While wages have risen slightly from 2006 to 2007 and fewer families are without… Continue Reading
WTO Trade Policy Review Body – Report by the Secretariat – China – Revision
Trade Policy Review Body – Trade Policy Review – Report by the Secretariat – China – Revision, 12/08/2008: “Continued trade liberalization has remained an integral part of the China’s long-standing structural reform strategy, which is aimed at establishing an outward-oriented “socialist market economy” that can deliver sustained economic growth and facilitate poverty reduction. The ongoing… Continue Reading
Report Shows Export-Oriented Model Eroded Africa's Food Self-Sufficiency
News release: “…a new report by U.S.-based consumer advocacy group Food & Water Watch, Whats Behind the Global Food Crisis? How Trade Policy Undermined Africa’s Food Self-Sufficiency, found that the steady increase in food cultivation in Africa between 1980s and early 1990s slowed after the WTO went into effect in 1995. Non-food cash crop cultivation… Continue Reading
G-8 Statement: Global Food Security
White House: G8 Leaders Statement on Global Food Security, July 8, 2008: “We are deeply concerned that the steep rise in global food prices coupled with availability problems in a number of developing countries is threatening global food security. The negative impacts of this recent trend could push millions more back into poverty, rolling back… Continue Reading
