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Although extreme poverty in the United States is low by global standards, the U.S. has the worst index of health and social problems as a function of income inequality. (uh.edu)
This serves to further marginalise them and avoid tackling the real issues driving crime rates - like poverty, inequality and deprivation. (gypsy-traveller.org)
Now in Mexico, he is dedicated to applying what he has learned and contributing to his country to work with the problems of inequality and poverty that we currently face. (oen.org)
Experts from the Foundation will present some of the emerging findings from its work on intergenerational wealth inequality, while Professors John Muellbauer and Brian Nolan will discuss possible policy responses, before taking part in an audience Q&A. (ox.ac.uk)
As part of a recurring, year-long program, UB Distinguished Visiting Scholars program brings a large cohort of highly accomplished scholars and artists whose work elucidates social inequality and advances social justice to the university and Buffalo community. (buffalo.edu)
The scale of this challenge was deftly charted in Professor Sampie Terreblanche's seminal work, A History of Inequality in South Africa 1652-2002, which examined the 'incomplete transformation' since 1994: the problems of poverty, health, land and hunger. (ifp.org.za)
Stephanie Kelton's brilliant exploration of modern monetary theory (MMT) dramatically changes our understanding of how we can best deal with crucial issues ranging from poverty and inequality to creating jobs, expanding health care coverage, climate change, and building resilient infrastructure. (hachettebookgroup.com)
As Tony Evans, in his introduction points out 'social policy is in the DNA of social work' and if, as he also argues, social policy is the organised response to societal problems, then a book that critically re-examines the links between politics, policy and practice in a period of increasing poverty, inequality and vulnerability could not be more valuable. (sagepub.com)
As poverty scholars, we are committed to understanding and explaining how policies and programs perpetuate or mitigate racism, inequality, violence, and poverty. (umich.edu)
Asia's growth prospects are being threatened by rising income inequality and environmental degradation, a regional poverty-fighting organisation has warned. (eco-business.com)
I started as a lecturer in economic history and later became a professor in sustainability science with a main interest in social, structural, and institutional change in relation to poverty, inequality, gender, development and sustainability. (lu.se)

As a mental health services researcher, her work examines the intersection between the mental health system and other social problems: criminal justice involvement, homelessness, substance use, social exclusion, and poverty. (constantcontact.com)
Her research interests include poverty and homelessness, the intersection of homelessness and crime, gentrification, and media presentation of social problems. (ucf.edu)
Imagine a diagnostic system centred on experiences like poverty, homelessness, and discrimination. (liverpool.ac.uk)
In the latest episode of our podcast series the Greater Good, CEDA Chief Economist Jarrod Ball chats with the chief executive of non-profit organisation The Big Issue Steven Persson about how his organisation has adapted to COVID, the impact of the pandemic on homelessness and social housing and the need to develop a suite of long-term solutions to poverty. (ceda.com.au)

He studied sociology and English literature at Trinity College Dublin and has a master's in social policy from the London School of Economics. (ox.ac.uk)
Episode 10 features co-authors Waverly Duck, Distinguished Visiting Scholar, 2020-21, Center for Diversity Innovation, University at Buffalo, and Anne Rawls, Professor of Sociology at Bentley University. (buffalo.edu)
Waverly Duck is an urban sociologist and Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Pittsburgh. (buffalo.edu)
The two-hour charrette will gather Design for Social Impact majors as well as students from an Intro to Sociology class. (indwes.edu)
UCF Sociology Professor Dr. Amy Donley was Jackson's mentor. (ucf.edu)
In countries where traditional societies have been dismembered by the migration from the rural world to the outskirts of large cities, broad social segments submitted to poverty and marginalisation find support, protection, and relations in Pentecostal communities," explained Jean-Pierre Bastian, a professor of sociology of religion at the Strasbourg University and an expert in the changing religious landscape in Latin America. (sightmagazine.com.au)
Each local (national) unit is composed of experts in labour law, social security, industrial relations, economics, sociology, social rights and poverty in general. (lu.se)
Opinion by Göran Djurfeldt, senior Professor at Department of Sociology 2014 Swedish pension funds should invest in Africa! (lu.se)

Mr. Kantor is a member of the boards of Economic Mobility Pathways, a nonprofit that helps low-income families get out and stay out of poverty, and of Ideas42, a nonprofit that uses behavioral science to solve global social problems. (worth.com)
Researchers Teresa McCarty and Tiffany Lee, among others, concluded that the lack of Indigenous educators, those who are best able to connect to children through the lens of the Blackfeet world view, contributes to issues of weak cultural identity, dropping out of school, social and behavioral problems and long-term poverty. (umwestern.edu)
Children suspected of being sexually abused require thorough history taking, including presenting symptoms and general medical, social, behavioral, gynecologic, and family histories. (medscape.com)

This year's theme was "Productive Transformation, Territorial Asymmetries and Social Exclusion in Ibero-America. (sase.org)
and Professor Santos Ruesga described the informal economy in Latin America and its effects on social exclusion and development. (sase.org)
The co-researchers conducted 68 interviews across the three neighbourhoods with older people who were experiencing social exclusion, isolation, poverty or health problems. (who.int)
It is important to do research on people that are working, but yet are poor, because this would shed a light on such workers who might disappear from statistics on social exclusion, such as those on unemployment. (lu.se)

John Muellbauer is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School and Professor of Economics at the University of Oxford. (ox.ac.uk)
Mr. Kantor also served as an Economist at the Federal Reserve in Washington, D.C. He began his career as an Assistant Professor of Economics at Lehigh University. (worth.com)
Lars Osberg is a professor of economics at Dalhousie University. (policyalternatives.ca)
A student might also take a public-health course on health disparities or an economics course on poverty, which would address the experiences of people of color, Molle said. (chronicle.com)

and (3) develop a workforce trained in and public awareness of the social determinants of health. (uh.edu)

He is the author of No Way Out: Precarious Living in the Shadow of Poverty and Drug Dealing (University of Chicago Press, 2015), which was a finalist for the Society for the Study of Social Problem 2016 C. Wright Mills Book Award. (buffalo.edu)
Marion Design Co. was co-founded in 2016 by two Indiana Wesleyan University Art + Design professors, Puffer and Herb Peterson, for the purpose of creating powerful design solutions that propel and empower the people of Marion. (indwes.edu)
the terms of WHECA required the target date for fuel poverty eradication to be within fifteen years, resulting in a default target of November 2016. (shu.ac.uk)
Some ideas are synthesised in a co-authored textbook Politics and Development in times of Globalisation (Jönsson et al 2012), in a co-authored chapter on the LUCID research school (Ness & Jerneck) and in my teaching portfolio (2015) based on which I received an Excellent Teacher Award at the Social Science Faculty (2016). (lu.se)

Bettina Beech, clinical professor of population health in the Department of Health Systems and Population Health Sciences at the University of Houston College of Medicine and chief population health officer at UH, examines poverty and racism as factors influencing health. (uh.edu)
With affiliation to the AIT School of Business, Policy and Development, he chairs the steering committee of AIT's Yunus Masters in Social Business & Entrepreneurship, co-directs the Professional Masters in ESG at AIT, and as Professor in the School of Business and Social Sciences at Albukhary International University, stewards emerging Social Business initiatives. (oen.org)
Laura studied social and political sciences at Cambridge University before completing a master's degree in public policy at Brown University in the US. (ox.ac.uk)
For more information, contact Assistant Professor of Social Sciences Hao Huang . (iit.edu)
Peter Kinderman , Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University's Department of Psychological Sciences, is working with an international task force to address major concerns about major psychiatric diagnostic manuals. (liverpool.ac.uk)
UAA is a hub for cutting-edge theoretical and applied research in health, engineering, and the physical and social sciences. (alaska.edu)
Keynote speaker Julia Leventon - Professor in Sustainability Science at the Global Change Research Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences - suggests that many may feel they are "listening to the science", yet climate change and biodiversity loss continue to escalate. (lu.se)

Almost a fifth of those who chose euthanasia in 2021 cited either loneliness, social isolation or both as a reason for choosing to die, he said. (rte.ie)

In 2006, Professor Muhammad Yunus won the Nobel Peace Prize for empowering millions of people to lift themselves out of poverty in Bangladesh. (oen.org)
Dr. Shah has published on enterprise-led development and social innovation in pro-poor technologies, His recent publication is the authorized Urdu edition of "The Three Zeros" by Professor Muhammad Yunus. (oen.org)
Professor Muhammad Yunus, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, and founder of the Grameen Bank, is commonly considered the thought father and early implementer of the social business concept. (bcg.com)

Tracey Smith-Carrier is a professor at the school of social work at King's University College and a researcher with the London Poverty Research Centre at King's. (cbc.ca)
It's an income problem,' said Tracy Smith-Carrier, a professor in the school of social work at King's University College and a researcher with the London Poverty Research Centre at King's. (cbc.ca)
Prior to joining the Resolution Foundation Laura spent four years at the Centre for Economic and Social Inclusion, where she worked on unemployment, young people, welfare reform and housing. (ox.ac.uk)

The year 2020 remains a year of pandemics, one of health care and wellness and one of social justice and equality. (constantcontact.com)
Today, Tony Blair, like the New Democrat administrations of Bill Clinton, has (quite successfully) blended the free-market reforms of his Conservative predecessors with the Left's pursuit of social justice at the expense of uninhibited economic growth. (ifp.org.za)
Tracing developments in social work education, children's services, children in state care and, adult social care, issues of rights and citizenship emerge as central to several of the book's chapters while Keating's chapter on attitudes to racial equality and immigration, reasserts the role of social work in achieving social justice. (sagepub.com)
She cited two lawsuits that have been filed by the Department of Justice and the Southern Poverty Law Center, stating that children with mental health problems are not being properly served in Mississippi. (diverseeducation.com)
All undergraduates in the 23-campus California State University system will have to satisfy a new ethnic-studies and social-justice course requirement to graduate, under a controversial policy the system's Board of Trustees adopted on Wednesday. (chronicle.com)
Campuses will determine what courses satisfy the new ethnic-studies and social-justice requirement. (chronicle.com)
In a written statement, the system's chancellor, Timothy P. White, said the new curriculum requirement "lifts ethnic studies to a place of prominence in our curriculum, connects it with the voices and perspectives of other historically oppressed groups, and advances the field by applying the lens of social justice. (chronicle.com)
Launched in 2020, the institute is an online community and a research hub centered on publishing research and stories related to social justice and community activism in Western medicine and public health. (medscape.com)

China's Experiment in Social Welfare: Is It Working? (columbia.edu)
In Welfare, Work, and Poverty (Oxford University Press, April 2017), Dr. Qin Gao provides the first systematic and comprehensive evaluation of the impacts and effectiveness of China's primary social assistance program-Minimum Livelihood Guarantee, or dibao -since its inception in 1993. (columbia.edu)
Welfare, Work, and Poverty by Professor Qin Gao describes how the program works, analyzes how well it works, and considers ways to improve it. (columbia.edu)
The authors' experience and skills in working with different service user groups combine to provide a constructive and critical approach to working with social policy in an era of welfare retrenchment. (sagepub.com)
The issues facing troubled youth today have become so severe and numerous that new, bold and creative paradigms are needed to address them, presenters at Jackson State University's Mississippi Child Welfare Institute conference told social work scholars and practitioners last week. (diverseeducation.com)
Transformation" was the overarching theme as the presenters from around the nation explored ways of improving child welfare services in Mississippi, the state with the highest poverty rate, obesity rate and infant mortality rate in the nation. (diverseeducation.com)
Several speakers emphasized increased health problems among families in the child welfare system. (diverseeducation.com)
In-work poverty may be the results of different types of problems, for instance, issues related to the labour market, the welfare state or the education system. (lu.se)
Therefore, social welfare, healthy family/friendship, and caring for adolescents' individuality are important for healthy adolescence. (who.int)

A consequence of APRA neglect is that 'poverty' now goes significantly up the income scale, well into what we generally call the middle class. (smh.com.au)
In economically depressed urban neighborhoods characterized by a high transmission potential, poor housing conditions, social neglect, and inadequate healthcare behavior, tungiasis may develop into severe disease. (cdc.gov)
The results indicate that in resource-poor populations important disease may frequently occur and seems to be related to a combination of intense transmission, economic deprivation, social neglect, and inadequate healthcare behavior. (cdc.gov)

Her work illuminates social problems of great interest to scholars, communities, and policymakers. (umich.edu)
This conference brings together social work scholars, faculty, administrators, students and practitioners," said Dr. Gwendolyn Spencer Prater, conference organizer and Dean Emerita of the Jackson State University School of Social Work. (diverseeducation.com)

Her work at the Foundation has focused on analysis of the labour market, including pay trends, self-employment and the social care workforce. (ox.ac.uk)
Anne Rawls' teaching and research interests focus on social theory Ethnomethodology, communication, information and explore issues related to the organization of modern democratic publics and their relationship to situated practices of communication and work. (buffalo.edu)
Columbia School of Social Work has been a leader in social work education and research since 1898. (columbia.edu)
Social policy is central to social work practice. (sagepub.com)
and comparing social work and social care internationally. (sagepub.com)
Policy and Social Work Practice (Eds. (sagepub.com)
Tony Evans and Frank Keating) is a well-timed contribution to the social work literature. (sagepub.com)
Arriving at a time when the depletion of social work services within the politics of austerity is underscored by a construction of a profession in disarray, this important book reminds us of the historical, social and policy contexts from which social work draws its mandate. (sagepub.com)
The book begins with a historical discussion of social work as located within the UK but later explores policy and practice in the international arena. (sagepub.com)
In a nutshell, this is the book's strength - its ability to chart the history of social work practice within a changing social policy landscape while providing a valuable resource for contemporary social work across a range of theoretical, geographical and practice borders. (sagepub.com)
This book explores in a really thoughtful and accessible way the vital but curiously neglected subject of the relationship between social policy and social work. (sagepub.com)
It is important that as poverty researchers we center our work on fundamental values of diversity, inclusion, equity, and belonging. (umich.edu)
All over the world these terms quickly bring to mind the groundbreaking work of HBS professor Michael Porter , whose two decades of research on these and related topics have resulted in more than fifteen books and sixty articles. (hbs.edu)
Further work by Boardman (1991) argued that fuel poverty is different from income poverty because of 'the crucial role of housing stocks - the house, heating system and other energy using equipment' (p. 221). (shu.ac.uk)
Trinia Allen, MSW, visiting assistant professor at Jackson State's School of Social Work, stressed mental illness in a session on "the most urgent issues" facing children of color and their families in the state. (diverseeducation.com)
We just didn't have a fancy name for it-we just called it Aunt Gladys taking over the kids when their parents couldn't raise them at the time," said Dr. Olga Osby of Jackson State's School of Social Work. (diverseeducation.com)
Dr. Anna Marshall, an assistant professor in JSU's School of Social Work, expanded upon the health care discussion, focusing on the obesity crisis, which has been well documented by statistics. (diverseeducation.com)
Allen and other presenters called for more advocacy on the part of social work practitioners and educators and their respective organizations to seek policy changes. (diverseeducation.com)
Dr. Rowena Wilson, associate dean and professor at Norfolk State University's School of Social Work, led a session on foster parent training and heard numerous questions and comments about the seriously disturbed and abused children going into foster care today. (diverseeducation.com)
The University of Montana Western Foundation recently received a gift in the amount of $25,000 to support Professor Vikki Howard's work through the University of Montana Western's collaboration with the Blackfeet Community College and Browning Public Schools. (umwestern.edu)
I am grateful to be able to work with Professor Howard and Tara VanDerveer to move this program forward with this special gift," Engellant said. (umwestern.edu)
This has resulted in insights from this work to be fed directly into social programmes and initiatives, in Manchester and beyond. (who.int)
The work carried out in Manchester has received various accolades, including winning the ' Outstanding Local Community Collaboration Award ' at the 2015 University of Manchester Social Responsibility Awards . (who.int)
They work, but earn wages that leave them on the verge on the poverty line. (lu.se)
Sweden has a quite low rate of people in-work, while at-risk-of-poverty (7.0%), especially if compared to some of the other participating countries (Luxembourg 13.5%, Germany 9.1%, Italy 12.2%, Poland 9.7%), nonetheless there are sectors and workers in Sweden who have been facing these problems. (lu.se)
One of the main features of the project is that such expertise is combined in the understanding of in-work poverty and in the elaboration of policy proposals. (lu.se)
If this is the case, we must begin the hard work of transforming our social systems - the way we organise our societies. (lu.se)

Ulrich Villis, an associate director in the Munich office of The Boston Consulting Group and leader of the firm's social impact practice in Europe, recently spoke with Professor Yunus about how social business can provide benefits to society as well as to the corporate sector, and his vision for the future. (bcg.com)
Professor of Practice in International Diplomacy at the University of Michigan's Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, and Professor from Practice at the University of Michigan's Law School. (umich.edu)
There are problems of philanthropic practice and attitude, but deeper answers may be found beneath those more superficial reasons. (nonprofitquarterly.org)
Situations of poverty, civil war, and drug trafficking led many people to look for individual solutions that would allow them to conveniently practice their faith," Tojeira explains. (sightmagazine.com.au)
It has simply watched as the practice of using a poverty index to measure a customer's ability to repay a loan has become normalised as a culture. (smh.com.au)

The ADB is urging the region's policymakers to broaden its successful "evidence-based policy- making" - a pragmatic trial-and- error approach - to one that adds the goals of social inclusion and environmental sustainability to economic progress. (eco-business.com)
If policymakers fail to take heed, not only will economic growth be hurt, but so will "social cohesion and the legitimacy of governments", it concluded. (eco-business.com)
Indeed, they represent a social vulnerability that needs to be addressed by law and policymakers. (lu.se)

It and other reports led to a more robust focus on population health over the last few decades that has included a renewed interest in the impact of racism and social factors, such as poverty, on clinical outcomes. (uh.edu)
Coupled with a lack of a national health program this condemns oppressed populations such as Black and Hispanic Americans, American Indians, and disproportionately non-English speaking immigrants and refugees to remain in poverty and suffer from suboptimal health. (uh.edu)
Research published in Psychological Science found that exposure to bullying in childhood predicted heightened risk of problems related to health, poverty, and social relationships in adulthood. (psychologicalscience.org)
To find out more about how bullying impacts employee health, an interdisciplinary team including psychological scientist Annie Hogh (University of Copenhagen), economist Tine L. Mundbjerg Eriksen (Aarhus University), and professor of public health Åse Marie Hansen (University of Copenhagen) examined an unusually rich data set collected from over 3,000 Danish employees. (psychologicalscience.org)
And the third, which arose from the second, examines how you can take competitive thinking and apply it to social problems such as the environment, inner cities, and health care. (hbs.edu)
However, she said another less publicized health problem is emerging among poor children-dental decay, which is leading to a variety of illnesses and even death. (diverseeducation.com)
Marshall cited education of parents and caregivers as one step being taken to address health problems, as well as establishing partnerships and coalitions with the medical professions. (diverseeducation.com)
Tungiasis is a common, but neglected, health problem in economically depressed communities in South American and sub-Saharan African countries ( 1 - 5 ). (cdc.gov)
It is important for a specialist to evaluate the person for other physical and mental health problems. (medlineplus.gov)
It includes disease prevention, health education and a healthy environment, both physical and social. (who.int)
Thinking of the possibility of are unsafe sexual behaviour, addiction, unemployment in the future and the difficult motor vehicle accidents, mental health university entrance examination also inc- problems, suicide [ 1 ] and increasing un- reased their problems [ 13 ]. (who.int)
NIOSH wants to hear from you on how to improve workplace health and safety in the Healthcare and Social Assistance industry sector. (cdc.gov)
As we look forward to the third decade of NORA, we want to hear from all interested individuals and stakeholders to tell us what they think are the most pressing needs to improve occupational health and safety in the Healthcare and Social Assistance Sector. (cdc.gov)
Suicide and mental health issues are a concern for us the Healthcare and Social Assistance Sector, especially among veterinarians and other groups. (cdc.gov)

Dr. Shah is a visiting professor at the College of Innovation at Thammasat University, and the Faculty of Management at Kasetsart University. (oen.org)
Dr. Ashir Ahmed is an associate professor at the faculty of information science and electrical engineering at Kyushu University in Japan. (oen.org)
and Professor of Social Policy at the University of Oxford. (ox.ac.uk)
Momoyo Kaijima is the Associate Professor of University of Tsukuba and Design Critic in Architecture at Harvard Graduate School of Design. (harvard.edu)
With approximately 60 Indiana Wesleyan University students involved, the event seeks to become familiar with the problem of "food deserts" and intentionally rethink how to overcome the problem. (indwes.edu)
Michael Batty, Bartlett Professor of Planning at University College London (UCL), explores what we need to understand about cities in order to invent their future, focusing on many of the ideas concerning science, prediction, and complexity of the last 50 years. (iit.edu)
Guest speaker Harvey Miller, a professor in the Department of Geography at The Ohio State University and Director of the Center for Urban and Regional Analysis, discusses the concept of sustainable mobility and how new, data-driven science helps to address essential transportation issues. (iit.edu)
She quotes Lisa Pruitt, a University of California at Davis law professor and publisher of the Legal Ruralism blog, who says, "We tend to associate rural poverty with whiteness…When we think about rural poverty, most associations with rural poverty are with white populations and in fact, that is true to some extent but it's actually far from being monochromatic. (nonprofitquarterly.org)
The strong priority on growth meant that the non-economic dimensions of development… have been generally underemphasised," said Mr Peter Petri, Carl Shapiro Professor of International Finance at Brandeis University in the United States, and Mr Vinod Thomas, the ADB's director-general of independent evaluation, who co-wrote the report. (eco-business.com)
Tim Rarick, professor at Brigham Young University-Idaho, went into greater detail on the role of fathers and their influence in the lives of their children. (profam.org)
The project WorkYP - Working Yet Poor is led by professor Luca Ratti from Luxembourg University. (lu.se)
I would like to welcome Professor Pirzada Qasim, the Vice-Chancellor of Karachi University, and all the delegates and thank you all for participating in this conference Fundamentals of Research Ethics - International and Regional Perspectives. (who.int)
I appreciate all the support provided by Karachi University and Professor Pirzada Qasim in developing the Institute of Urology and Transplantation (SIUT) by initiating the postgraduate programme for a Masters degree in surgery. (who.int)
Opinion: Göran Hermerén, Professor emeritus in Medical ethics, Lund university The heading "The right to my own death" immediately raises three questions: is there such a right? (lu.se)
Column: Gertrud Sandqvist, Professor of the Theory and History of Ideas in Visual Art at Lund University, 2015 The central perspective was invented some 600 years ago by artists both North and South of the Alps to make angels seem more authentic - a method to create the illusion of depth. (lu.se)
During my secondment stay at Marmara University, I have the privilege of being hosted by Professor Erhan Dogan. (lu.se)

The concept of "social businesses"-companies that try to solve a social problem by applying business principles-has attracted significant attention in recent years. (bcg.com)
Here, the prime objective of the company is to solve human problems in a sustainable way. (bcg.com)
Katy Faust, founder of "Them Before Us," began by asking the audience, "If you could solve one of these problems, which one would it be? (profam.org)

Lauren Gurley's essay in In These Times , a well-regarded left-leaning journal, explores why the left doesn't give rural poverty the serious attention it typically accords issues of urban poverty. (nonprofitquarterly.org)
While the press and the public focus on urban poverty, there is little attention paid to the consistently higher rate of poverty of residents in non-metropolitan counties. (nonprofitquarterly.org)
The reality is that rural poverty, like urban poverty, is also disproportionately evident among Blacks, Latinos, and Native Americans. (nonprofitquarterly.org)

Sabin does not pull any punches, especially when he writes about the harm Americans sometimes do when they try to provide quick solutions to poverty and suffering in places like Haiti and Guatemala. (judsonpress.com)

Public discourse has been largely shaped by a narrative of meritocracy which is laced with ideals of opportunity without any consideration of the realities of racism and race-based inequities in structures and systems that have locked individuals, families and communities into poverty-stricken lives for generations," she said. (uh.edu)
In Tacit Racism , Anne Warfield Rawls and Waverly Duck illustrate the many ways in which racism is coded into the everyday social expectations of Americans, in what they call Interaction Orders of Race. (buffalo.edu)
Ultimately, by exposing this legacy of racism in ordinary social interactions, Rawls and Duck hope to stop us from merely pretending we are a democratic society and show us how we can truly become one. (buffalo.edu)
We've collapsed our nation's poverty problem into our nation's racism problem and it leads us to turn a blind eye to rural poverty. (nonprofitquarterly.org)

In a nutshell: how to advance the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals indicators through Yunus Social Businesses. (oen.org)
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. (lu.se)

The U.S. has one of the highest rates of poverty in the developed world, but despite its collective wealth, the burden falls disproportionately on communities of color. (uh.edu)

He is principal and co-founder of the New York City-based architecture, planning, and research firm Interboro Partners, and the Associate Professor in Urban Planning and Design at Harvard Graduate School of Design. (harvard.edu)
From the left: Commuting workers (Istock Photo) and Vincenzo Pietrogiovanni, Associate Professor of Business Law. (lu.se)
Vincenzo Pietrogiovanni, associate professor of Labour Law, is the coordinator of the multidisciplinary unit in Lund, which also consist of Anna Missiaia, senior lecturer of Economic History, and from 1 April Ann-Christine Hartzén, postdoctoral researcher in Business Law with full focus on research on the working poor in Sweden. (lu.se)

Stacey L. Barrenger, Ph.D., has joined the faculty as an assistant professor in the Department of Psychiatry. (constantcontact.com)

Major problems faced by society include climate change, food security, energy security, education, poverty, and disease, all of which have partial solutions that have been opposed by segments of society. (iit.edu)
Gorringe then discusses the problem of climate change, which is directly related and obviously very important, but I'm not going to address that now. (wawalker.com)

But because Americans tend to think of rural Americans and rural poverty as white, there is less immediate concern. (nonprofitquarterly.org)
A recent commentary, "Poverty and Culture," written by Professor Lawrence Mead and published in Society, a journal edited by Jonathan Imber, has caused great concern and anger within the poverty research community. (umich.edu)
On the occasion of the annual SASE meeting in Madrid 2011, Professors Ruesga and da Silva expressed their concern about the low participation of Ibero-Americans in previous years. (sase.org)
Despite inspiring the establishment of issue-specific interest groups including National Energy Action and the National Right to Fuel Campaign, fuel poverty did not become a formal legislative concern until the passing of the Warm Homes and Energy Conservation Act 2000 (WHECA). (shu.ac.uk)
Instead of merely summarizing Gorringe's response to these questions - which is not my main concern here - we first have to see some of the problems themselves in more concrete terms. (wawalker.com)
What injuries and illnesses are of particular concern to workers in the Healthcare and Social Assistance industry sector? (cdc.gov)

Planners to social researchers stress that poverty leads to dejected problems within a society. (wikipedia.org)
Anchored by a network of more than 870 researchers at universities around the world, J-PAL conducts randomized impact evaluations to answer critical questions in the fight against poverty. (povertyactionlab.org)
Sarah Kamens, Co-Chair of the Task Force and Assistant Professor of Psychology at SUNY College at Old Westbury, said: "Researchers have recently proposed the idea of a "paradigm shift" in psychiatric diagnosis. (liverpool.ac.uk)
The researchers across Europe will explore the reasons for such phenomenon and elaborate recommendations to the EU and legislators, in order to enhance the goals proclaimed in the European Pillar of Social Rights. (lu.se)
Opinion by Ellen Hillbom and Erik Green, Readers in Economic History with a special interest in African Economic History Among the general public and the researchers, Africa has been described as a continent in permanent poverty with weak economic growth. (lu.se)

Professor Howard has a passion for working with tribal colleges and helping to develop curricula that will help to increase the number of much-needed Indigenous educators in their communities. (umwestern.edu)

Brian Nolan is Director of INET's Employment, Equity and Growth Programme and Professor of Social Policy at the Department of Social Policy and Intervention. (ox.ac.uk)
Others, such as the Carbon Emissions Reduction Target (CERT), the Community Energy Saving Programme (CESP) and social tariffs, are funded through energy bills. (shu.ac.uk)

The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) is a global research center working to reduce poverty by ensuring that policy is informed by scientific evidence. (povertyactionlab.org)
The central question, he posed was whether poverty could have been better addressed by the state-centred approach of classical European social democracy rather than by building a 'new black elite' wedded to a neo-liberal policy framework. (ifp.org.za)
This paper reviews the interim report, placing proposals within the context of the ongoing debate around fuel poverty and its alleviation, and offering commentary as to the implications for policy. (shu.ac.uk)
So measures designed to capture the impacts of low incomes are now targeting financially-enmeshed middle-income households, and not as a statement of social shame, but as strategic objects of bank policy. (smh.com.au)

In February of 2006, the Center for American Progress convened a diverse group of national experts and leaders to examine the causes and consequences of poverty in America and make recommendations for national action. (americanprogress.org)

In particular, I am interested in how social theory like institutionalism, symbolic interactionism, and various critical theories including feminism, can be useful in development studies and sustainability science. (lu.se)

These issues include the social character of information, the presentation of self, the development of a modern situated character, and studies of the situated character of reason, order and intelligibility. (buffalo.edu)
An additional factor may be the perception of the left that rural white voters are seen as leaning toward "conservative positions on social issues like abortion and gay rights," which Gurley sees as "not mak(ing) the liberal media or Democratic candidates any more sympathetic to rural American poverty. (nonprofitquarterly.org)
I found it especially helpful in clearly explaining the interrelatedness of environmental and social issues, as well as providing a theological basis for Christian stewardship of the earth. (judsonpress.com)
While most Christians understand the dangers of poverty and desire to help out those less fortunate, most do not realize the connections between poverty and deforestation or other environmental issues. (judsonpress.com)
In addition, Kennedy is active on a wide range of other issues, including education reform and immigration reform, raising the minimum wage, defending the rights of workers and their families, strengthening civil rights, assisting individuals with disabilities, fighting for cleaner water and cleaner air, and protecting and strengthening Social Security and Medicare. (americanprogress.org)

In the 111 years since then, many HBS alumni have taken the school's emphasis on social responsibility to heart by attempting to effect societal change. (hbs.edu)

His research focuses on developing frugal technologies to achieve social goals, and he has established the Global Communication Center (GCC) within Grameen Communications in Bangladesh to pursue this mission. (oen.org)
I'm familiar in my history with what that's like, and I've also focused my research on social assistance rates,' she said. (cbc.ca)
Browse news articles about J-PAL and our affiliated professors, read our press releases and monthly global and research newsletters, and connect with us for media inquiries. (povertyactionlab.org)
A major research focus has been the delineation of an emergent interactional "social contract" and its resistance to inequalities that result from institutional arrangements and individual interests. (buffalo.edu)
The charrette will jumpstart more extensive research by the Design for Social Impact students, in partnership with the Alliance Gardens, toward attacking the problem of hunger and poverty in Marion over the next three weeks. (indwes.edu)
As such his commentary is harmful to the integrity of social science research. (umich.edu)
Indeed, decades of research suggest that when anti-poverty policies and programs are designed in an effective and inclusive way, much progress can be made. (umich.edu)
This poverty gap is widening day by day and even a person with an average or modest income will not be able to buy the research products. (who.int)
Leventon suggests future research takes a systemic approach to understand how to create change in our societies, in addition to the problems and their solutions. (lu.se)
Theoretically, I seek to combine critical with problem-solving research. (lu.se)

A new Asian Development Bank (ADB) report noted that the region's economic policies have brought prosperity to many parts of Asia but neglected to tackle social and environmental problems. (eco-business.com)
The Center for American Progress invites you to the release of the Task Force report "From Poverty to Prosperity: A National Strategy to Cut Poverty in Half. (americanprogress.org)

A true paradigm shift would "diagnose" our condition as biological beings who experience social problems that make us suffer. (liverpool.ac.uk)

One in five Americans now takes a psychiatric drug, with widespread problems of dependence, and therefore physical and psychological harm. (liverpool.ac.uk)
Thirty-seven million Americans live below the official poverty line. (americanprogress.org)

Some areas or sectors like agriculture, Ecovillage and Ecotourism development play a vital role in accelerating swift economic growth and alleviating poverty. (wikipedia.org)
He has focused on social innovation capacity building in all sectors with a focus on entrepreneurial development, personal leadership development, sustainable development, people-centered design, and liberating structures. (oen.org)

I often hear that there are business benefits as well, because social businesses offer a place for innovation and learning in a different setting. (bcg.com)

Imagine that you have no job, no money, you live cut off from the rest of society in a world ruled by poverty and violence, your skin is the "wrong" color-and you have no hope that any of this will change. (preachingtoday.com)
Irene and I could only gasp at the wall-to-wall provision of social security which has been the norm in Scandinavian society for several generations. (ifp.org.za)
In this series, we're bringing in some of the world's Great Minds to speak on the Great Problems facing society. (iit.edu)
Our mission is to improve understanding of the fundamental institutions of a free society by analysing and expounding the role of the markets in solving economic and social problems. (iea.org.uk)
The banking and finance royal commission has cast light on a new type of poverty to emerge in our society: middle class poverty. (smh.com.au)
And as a recent Center for American Progress report showed, poverty imposes enormous costs on society - costs that undermine our economic competitiveness and tear at our social fabric. (americanprogress.org)
Through innovative partnerships, this guide and accompanying video are a must for anyone serious about community development that includes all ages (Professor Sheila Peace, President British Society of Gerontology). (who.int)
Child sexual abuse has been defined by the American Academy of Pediatrics as the engaging of a child in sexual activities that the child cannot comprehend, for which the child is developmentally unprepared and cannot give informed consent, and violate the social taboos of society. (medscape.com)
Poor scholastic performance is a common problem faced by non-cognitive factors such as socio-economic status and the parents and teachers in present day competitive society. (who.int)

While conceding that in-depth consultation with all social partners would be required, the President stated that some of the elements of this system would need to include continuation of the minimum benefits currently provided for in the social grants system, a wage subsidy for low-wage earners and a social security tax to finance basic retirement savings and death, disability and unemployment benefits. (ifp.org.za)

Fuel poverty was first isolated as a social problem in the 1970s, when steep fuel price rises caused by the oil crisis of 1973 were observed to be creating financial pressures that impeded households from effectively heating their homes (see Bradshaw and Hutton, 1983). (shu.ac.uk)
Middle-income households are living in poverty because of banking practices. (smh.com.au)
The Henderson Poverty Index rates when households are facing hardship. (smh.com.au)

Using business to create social change has been at the center of many entrepreneurial efforts by Harvard Business School alumni. (hbs.edu)

Professor Peter Kinderman , said: "Seeing our difficult emotions as symptoms of mental illness is only one way of thinking about them, with advantages and disadvantages. (liverpool.ac.uk)

The establishment of Mount Everest Foundation for Sustainable Development is a significant step towards achieving the goals of peace, unity, social amity, international co-operation and fraternity free from racial, ethnic linguistic or religious discrimination. (wikipedia.org)

Asian economies typically kept social expenditures low and focused investments on economic infrastructure," they added. (eco-business.com)

What projects or initiatives do you think would have the greatest impact on workers in the Healthcare and Social Assistance sector? (cdc.gov)

Evidence is now telling us that future growth will likely depend on halting today's negative social and environmental trends," said the report. (eco-business.com)
And many of today's business students arrive with a commitment to social impact through or alongside their professional careers. (hbs.edu)
While our book primarily focuses on the social impact of today's business graduates, we wanted to point out that this is not a new phenomenon. (hbs.edu)

I see development and sustainability as two interdisciplinary fields striving to fulfil social goals. (lu.se)

Many developing countries have free-trade zones that are exempt from the onerous rules and infrastructure problems that hold back the rest of their economy. (hbs.edu)

He initiated and developed more than 20 social businesses in Bangladesh, many of them in cooperation with multinational corporate partners. (bcg.com)

Social commentators also suggest that structural problems in Central American nations are fundamental factors in the transformation of the religious scenario. (sightmagazine.com.au)

Black and Latin students are treated as discipline problems. (cpusa.org)
Problems discussed included the impacts of contemporary capitalist exploitation on Latin American societies in general and the production of territorial inequalities in particular. (sase.org)

With some 3,000 participants from over 135 countries, and based on the theme of "Building Inclusive and Sustainable Cities and Communities," the conference was, among other things, a forum for stridently competing social agendas. (profam.org)

Early intervention in situations involving abuse and poverty will also help. (medlineplus.gov)

In this 21st Century, poverty is one of the global burdens. (wikipedia.org)
These inadequacies - combined with weakened provincial social assistance programs - have produced a massive risk shift, the burden of which is being borne by Canadian families who have fallen victim to the global recession. (policyalternatives.ca)
Sir Ronald Cohen left a successful career in venture capital private equity to launch a global movement that has brought together governments with service providers and has attracted private investment to pay for a variety of social programs. (hbs.edu)

The Great Problems, Great Minds seminar series explores the major problems facing humanity as we move into the heart of the 21st century. (iit.edu)

In this report, the Task Force calls for a national goal of cutting poverty in half in the next 10 years and proposes a strategy to reach the goal. (americanprogress.org)

While Morris focused on self-transformation, other presenters proposed changes needed in social policies and programs to radically improve services to youth. (diverseeducation.com)

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