This Economic Information Bulletin describes characteristics of low-income households that had very low food security in 2005. The U.S. Department of Agriculture monitors the food security of low-income households to assess how effectively the Governments domestic nutrition assistance programs meet the needs of their target populations. USDA seeks to reduce the prevalence of very low food security among low-income households as part of its strategic plan under the Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA). Nord, Mark
The Dispensary of Hope, a growing not-for-profit network, is helping low-income patients get the necessary medications they are not able to afford on their own. Approximately 1,000 medical practices across the country are donating drug samples to Dispensary of Hope that they would normally destroy. The drugs that these medical practices would destroy but send to the Dispensary of Hope are valued at tens of millions of dollars. The Dispensary of Hope is a 30-location medication dispensary system. The network consists of prescription drug contributors, collection and distribution sites, and dispensing medical centers that help patients who do not have insurance coverage and with income levels below 200% of the federal poverty guidelines.. For more information and to see if there is a dispensary near you, please visit the Dispensary of Hope website at http://www.dispensaryofhope.org.. ...
The 2014 Kids County data book was released this month - evaluating the well being of children in each state. Today, WFHB news director Alycin Beketsh speaks with Indiana Youth Institute President and CEO Bill Stanczykiewicz about Indianas childhood poverty rate for todays community report.. Links ...
Summary:. This paper presents a Joint Staff Advisory Note on the Republic of Armenias Second Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP). Armenias poverty and extreme poverty rates declined in 2006 to 26.5 percent and 4.1 percent of the population, respectively-results which surpassed PRSP-1 projections. Inequality also decreased to a rate below the PRSP-1 goal, as measured by a reduction in the Gini coefficient from 0.395 in 2004 to 0.369 in 2006. Prudent fiscal and monetary policies were instrumental in maintaining macroeconomic stability and contributing to poverty reduction.. ...
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Some 15.7 per cent of people in Jordan live in extreme poverty, according to the latest survey conducted by the government.. In a press conference, Prime Minister Omar Al-Razzaz said today that the poverty rate was at 14.4 per cent in 2010, up from 13.3 per cent 2008. Unofficial estimates place the poverty rate at 20 per cent in 2016.. Absolute poverty takes in to account all those living on less than $1 a day, according to the World Bank.. A survey on household income and expenditures 2017-2018 issued by the Department of Statistics revealed earlier that there were one million poor people out of 7.1 million Jordanians in the kingdom. There are nearly 10 million people living in Jordan including approximately 1.5 million Syrian refugees.. PM: Jordan seeks to borrow $1bn from World Bank to cover debt ...
By Sandra Morgen, Joan Acker & Jill Weigt. Using ethnographic observations, in-depth interviews with poor families, and welfare workers, tracks survey data of more than 750 families and documentary evidence over two years and suggests how welfare policy in the US can be changed to better address the needs of poor families and the nation, questioning the validity of claims that welfare reform has been a success by showing how poor families, welfare workers, and welfare administrators experienced and assessed welfare reform differently based on gender, race, class, and their varying positions of power and control within the welfare state. Read more.. ...
Downloadable ! Author(s): Barrett , Christopher B & Carter , Michael R & Ikegami , Munenobu. 2008 Abstract: This paper demonstrates that there are potentially large returns to having a social protection policy that stakes out a productive safety net below the vulnerable and keeps them from slipping into a poverty trap. Much of the value of the productive safety net comes from mitigating the ex ante effects of risk and crowding in additional investment. The analysis also explores the implications of different mechanisms of targeting social protection transfers. In the presence of poverty traps, modestly regressive targeting based on critical asset thresholds may have better long-run poverty reduction effects than traditional needs-based targeting.
The story of child poverty in Canada is very much an urban story. One out of every 10 children living in urban areas was poor in 2010, compared to one in 20 children living in non-urban areas. Three-quarters (or 76 per cent) of all poor children in Canada lived in one of the urban centres shown in the chart above.*. Child poverty isnt a question of jobs: the cities with worst child poverty only had middle-of-the-pack unemployment rates (out of the 19 cities, St. Johns, N.L. was 8th highest and Vancouver, B.C. was 11th highest). Similarly, the cities with the lowest unemployment rates in 2010 (Regina and Quebec) did not score particularly well in terms of child poverty. This is why its so important to talk about the living wage in Vancouver and wages in general.. St. Johns in Newfoundland had the highest child poverty rate of all Canadian cities (15.8 per cent or one in every 6 children). Vancouver saw the second-highest child poverty at 13.8 per cent. Kitchener-Cambridge-Waterloo and ...
Define poverty line. poverty line synonyms, poverty line pronunciation, poverty line translation, English dictionary definition of poverty line. Noun 1. poverty line - a level of personal income defining the state of poverty poverty level personal income - the income received by a single individual...
With extreme poverty on the rise amid the COVID-19 pandemic for the first time in more than two decades, senior officials briefing the Security Council today called for redoubled efforts to break the vicious cycle of poverty, fragility and conflict still devastating many nations.. Briefing the 15-member Council, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres emphasized that, even before the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the global conflict landscape was deteriorating. Conflicts have become more complex, fuelled by greater regionalization, the proliferation of non-State armed groups and their links to criminal and extremist interests. According to the World Bank Fragility and Conflict Report, one of every five people in the Middle East and North Africa lives in close proximity to a major conflict. Humanitarian needs have multiplied, reaching the highest levels since the Second World War and the number of people at risk of starvation has doubled.. Warning that such trends have put many ...
Senior Research Associate Florencia Gutierrez believes Missouri should increase its resources for poor families.. Across the board in children living in high poverty areas and children whose parents lack secure employment, we found an 11% increase, said Gutierrez. Since the 2008 recession, the unemployment rate has consistently declined. We assumed with that decline we would see a decline in the child poverty rate. That hasnt been the case.. Some of the positive trends included the teen birth rate declining by 39%, fewer teens are abusing alcohol and drugs and the number of teens not graduating from high school on time is at a record low in Missouri.. We know that at a national level, there has been large investments in education and prevention campaigns when it comes to teen pregnancy and abuse of alcohol and drugs among teens. Weve also seen a large push from the federal government around education to set regulations and to hold states accountable for the drop out crisis that we saw in ...
|p|Year Up, a non-profit organization headquartered in Boston, was founded by a former software entrepreneur in 2000 to provide a year of training and work experience to urban young adults ages 18 to 24. It has been able to develop a network of program sites across the country without the constraints imposed by public funding. Initial results from a small-scale impact study conducted by Mobility demonstrate that Year Up students experience remarkable earnings gains after a year in the labor market, compared to a control group. These gains were achieved during one of the worst economic recessions in recent memory, a recession that hit young people particularly April 2011 A Promising Start Year Ups Initial Impacts on Low-Income Young Adults Careers Anne Roder Mark Elliott economic mobility corporation 1 A Promising Start Year Ups Initial Impacts on Low-Income Young Adults Careers hard. Also, the Year Up experience does not deter young people from pursuing further education-program participants are
Over the last two decades, Ethiopia has registered fast economic growth which has led to significant national poverty reduction. However, there were significant differences in the pace and nature of poverty reduction across Ethiopias regions, according to...
The report - Accelerating Poverty Reduction in Mozambique: Challenges and Opportunities - notes that while poverty reductions have been modest, not everyone is benefitting equally.
Get this from a library! Mali : poverty reduction strategy paper-progress report.. -- This paper reviews Maliâ??s 2012â??2017 Poverty Reduction and Growth Strategy Paper. Maliâ??s GDP was CFAF 1,741.89 billion in 2012; real growth was?1.2 percent, that is, excluding inflation (2.7 ...
Note: Updates to this data product are discontinued. Over 1 in 4 rural children are living in families that are poor, according to the official poverty measure, up from 1 in 5 in 1999, but this change was uneven across the rural landscape. Counties with high vulnerability to child poverty, those with both low young adult education levels and high proportions of children in single-parent families, were generally the most hard-hit by the recession of the past decade and experienced substantial increases in their already high child poverty rates. Along with the recession, an increase in rural children in single-parent households, continuing from the 1990s, was a major contributor to the rise in child poverty after 2000. Three factors that shape the geography of high and increasing rural child poverty are explored below: economic conditions, young adult education levels, and family structure. This collection of maps complements the July 2015 Amber Waves feature, Understanding the Geography of Growth in
Indeed, the report found that half of all people living in absolute poverty in the worlds 35 poorest countries - most of them in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia - are 12 years old or less.. Children should not be cruelly condemned to a life without hope, without good education, and without access to quality health care. We must do better for them, the Banks president, Jim Yong Kim, said at a press conference here on the eve of the annual meetings here of the Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF).. Later this week, Kim will host a special event with Malala Yousafzai, who was awarded the European Parliaments Sakharov Prize Thursday and is considered a favourite for winning the 2013 Nobel Peace Prize. He said the 16-year-old Pakistani school girl and education activist was a powerful symbol of hope for the 400 million children who remain in extreme poverty.. She would not be denied, he said in a reference to her continuing fight for girls education before and after the 2012 ...
A task force formed by Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback is preparing to open discussions about finding ways to reduce childhood poverty.
This statistic describes the prevalence of extreme poverty in the least developed countries in the Arab region from 1990 to 2012.
Childrens Health Insurance Program (CHIP): accomplishments, challenges, and policy recommendations. Providing care for children and adolescents facing homelessness and housing insecurity. 65% report that poverty has a high negative impact on childrenâ s mental health. One in five children receive food stamps, Census Bureau reports. Development of a tool to identify poverty in a family practice setting: a pilot study. When unmet basic needs and poverty-associated risks are identified, pediatricians can refer families to appropriate community services and public programs. Poverty and other adverse social determinants have a detrimental effect on child health and are root causes of child health inequity in the United States. Healthy Steps for Young Children: sustained results at 5.5 years. 1. 4. Consequences of Poverty on Child Health . Therefore, the income supports and direct benefits provided by these government programs have cut family poverty almost in half, from an estimated 31% to ...
Rebecca Santiago, R.N., doesnt stop her work as a community health nurse navigator at Saint Francis Cares Curtis D. Robinson Center for Health Equity just because its the weekend. Sunday mornings will find her in the Hartford, Conn., area at a church, mosque, barber shop or beauty salon, reaching out to people who need medical care but dont know how to access it. She may be taking someones blood pressure or drawing blood for a prostate cancer screening. And when those tests turn up problems, . . .
In this grim honorless age of evil greedy Trump, there is yet some great good in the world. Yale College (1973) and University of Connecticut School of Medicine (1977) graduate Charles Halasz, MD, has just been awarded Americares Free Clinics prestigious 2018 Dr. Patch Adams Award for over 20 years of distinguished community service to low-income patients with no insurance or not eligible for government support. Dr. Halasz is a Norwalk, Connecticut dermatologist, who is also board-certified in internal medicine. Dr. Halasz is also Assistant Clinical Professor of Dermatology at Columbia Univristys College of Physicians & Surgeons in New York City. The Dr. Patch Adams award was presented as part of the Fairfield County Medical Association (FCMA) Physician Extraordinaire Award Ceremony October 25. Dr. Halaszs low-income patients, over 200 each year for over 20 years, are typically refugees from foreign countries and continents such as Nepal, the former Yugoslavia, Central America, and South ...
This project was a mixed-method, multi-level study of low income families of children with special needs and the system which served them, focusing primarily on child care, employment, and balancing work and family. This approach included an analysis of existing national and state-level data sets, statewide surveys of parents and child care providers, and a field study to look at these issues at the local level in three selected communities in the state of Maine: Portland, Lewiston/Auburn, and Presque Isle. While the primary focus was on access to child care, this project also looked at the related issues of welfare reform, the impact of work force participation on having a child with special needs, and the issue of coordination of early intervention services with the child care system. The goal was to understand better the issues facing low income families with special needs children across the programs and policies affecting their employment, access to child care, and meeting the special needs ...
TY - UNPB. T1 - Household trajectories in rural Ethiopia - what can a mixed method approach tell us about the impact of poverty on children?. AU - Camfield, Laura. AU - Roelen, Keetie. PY - 2011. Y1 - 2011. N2 - The paper explores the dynamics of child and household poverty in rural Ethiopia using three rounds of household survey and qualitative data collected by Young Lives, a longitudinal study of child poverty. It uses a mixed-method taxonomy of poverty (Roelen and Camfield 2011) to classify children and their households into four groups: ultra-poor, poor, near-poor and non-poor. Survey and qualitative data are then used to analyse the movements in and out of poverty and explore the factors that underpin these movements. The use of mixed methods in both the identification of the poor and analysis of their mobility illustrates that the combined use of qualitative and quantitative information can lead to deeper insights and understandings. The paper reports a reduction in the percentage of poor ...
The reduction and eradication of poverty has long been the primary goal of EU development cooperation. As the new European Consensus on development stated in 2017, eradicating poverty, tackling discriminations and inequalities and leaving no-one behind are at the heart of EU development cooperation policy.This briefing note draws on previous ODI research to examine how the EU could play a more effective role in ending extreme poverty in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) by better targeting support for human development in the poorest countries. Key messages If past growth and inequality trends continue, growth alone is expected to halve poverty rates in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) by 2030. But this still means that 340 million people will be left behind in extreme poverty. As many of them live in countries that are vulnerable to conflict and climate change, this may understate the future extent of extreme poverty. Interlocking investments in the three key human development sectors, i.e. education, health ...
This paper evaluates the health impact of a signature initiative of the War on Poverty: the roll out of the modern Food Stamp Program (FSP) during the 1960s and early 1970s. Using variation in the month the FSP began operating in each U.S. county, we find that pregnancies exposed to the FSP three months prior to birth yielded deliveries with increased birth weight, with the largest gains at the lowest birth weights. These impacts are evident with difference-in-difference models and event study analyses. Estimated impacts are robust to inclusion of county fixed effects, time fixed effects, measures of other federal transfer spending, state by year fixed effects, and county-specific linear time trends. We also find that the FSP rollout leads to small, but statistically insignificant, improvements in neonatal infant mortality. We conclude that the sizeable increase in income from Food Stamp benefits improved birth outcomes for both whites and African Americans, with larger impacts for births to ...
Abstract: African Americans suffer disproportionately from higher rates of diet related chronic diseases compared with Caucasians. The purpose of this project was to design and implement a nutrition education intervention to reduce cardiovascular disease risk factors among low-income, African American caretakers of young children. Study participants were low-income, African American residents of Guilford County, NC, and primary meal preparers and caretakers of a child less than 12 years of age. Participants (N=14) were recruited from community agencies (Guilford County WIC; Department of Social Services) and through a church with a high African American population. Participants received nutrition education classes that addressed barriers to healthy behaviors. Pre and post tests were given to assess changes in nutrition knowledge, attitudes, and self-efficacy regarding dietary behavior. Overall, pre and post test results indicated a significant increase in nutrition knowledge, self reported ...
BEIJING, April 19 (Xinhua) -- The Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee on Friday held a meeting to discuss the current economic situation, poverty alleviation work in 2018, and a regulation on CPC publicity work.. Xi Jinping, general secretary of the CPC Central Committee, presided over the meeting.. Chinas economy maintained stable operation in the first quarter, with better-than-expected growth rate setting a good start for the year, according to a statement released after the meeting.. However, the economy is faced with many issues and difficulties, as tensions in the external environment tend to rise while downward pressure on the domestic economy remains, the statement said.. The issues are partly due to cyclical factors, but to a larger degree they have deeper structural and institutional roots, and must be tackled with unwavering efforts and sustained patience, the statement said.. The meeting stressed the need to consolidate general economic and ...
Over the past two decades, poverty alleviation efforts have shifted from a focus on foreign aid and building technical capacity to orchestrating new market opportunities. This new approach involves finding ways to connect businesses operating in urban centres with beneficiaries living in rural settings. Such connections may involve the sourcing of agricultural products (e.g. organic grains, coffee) or animal by-products (e.g. honey, milk) from rural producers, as well as the selling of innovative products to rural consumers (e.g. crop insurance, tele-health services, mobile banking).
This workshop was organised to provide a space for Rwanda based conservation and development organisations to share their experiences of linking conservation (and particularly great ape conservation) and poverty alleviation, reflecting on what has worked, what hasnt and why; understand the framework for conservation and development policies in Rwanda; identify what changes are needed (from specific practices to national policies) in order to maximise conservation-poverty linkages; and develop practical proposals for how these changes might be brought about, and what role a group of conservation and development organisations in Rwanda could play (for example through information exchange, learning and joint action).. This publication is an output of the Poverty and Conservation Learning Group (PCLG) - Event Report, 2016. ...
Almost 9 percent of low-income mothers with young children experienced a major depressive episode in the past year. Even though depression is one of the most treatable mental illnesses, more than one-third of these women received no treatment. Untreated parental depression poses risks for childrens cognitive, social, emotional, and behavioral development. It also raises the
Downloadable! This paper evaluates the health impacts of a signature initiative of the War on Poverty: the introduction of the modern Food Stamp Program (FSP). Using variation in the month FSP began operating in each U.S. county, we find that pregnancies exposed to FSP three months prior to birth yielded deliveries with increased birth weight, with the largest gains at the lowest birth weights. We also find small but statistically insignificant improvements in neonatal mortality. We conclude that the sizable increase in income from FSP improved birth outcomes for both whites and African Americans, with larger impacts for African American mothers. © 2011 The President and Fellows of Harvard College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
The Detroit Dental Health Project (DDHP)aims to promote oral health and reduce disparities within the community of low-income African-American children (0-5 years) and their main caregivers (14+ years), living in the City of Detroit. The driving theme of the Project is to identify determinants and design interventions to answer the following question: why do some low-income African-American children and their main caregivers have better oral health than others who live in the same community? The Project has 3 support cores, 4 research core projects and 1 pilot study. The Project has selected a multistage random sample of African-American families living in the poorest 39 Census Tracts in the City of Detroit. A total of 1,022 families were recruited and interviewed at a community center in Detroit during the year 2 (2002). We have collected data about the social characteristics of parents, families, and neighborhoods that are associated with disparities in oral health; lead levels in saliva and ...
New Thinking on Poverty in the UK Any Lessons for the South? Aid and aid management New Thinking on Poverty in the UK Any Lessons for the South?
The deputy chairman of the Planning Commission, Montek Singh Ahluwalia told reporters Tuesday that the poverty line was meant to reflect conditions of absolute poverty in the country.. This poverty line is not the line that we think a person can comfortably survive… the poverty line has been identified as a rock-bottom, bare subsistence kind of line, he said.. Indias poverty line measurements are significantly lower than those used by international organisations like the World Bank, which assesses poverty according to the percentage of people who live on less than $1.25 a day.. The figures from the Planning Commission, an influential government body that formulates national five-year economic plans, suggested overall poverty levels fell from 37.2 percent in 2004-05 to 29.8 percent in 2009-10.. The statistics mean about 360 million Indians now live in poverty, according to the Planning Commission.. The data is used to determine access to welfare benefits for Indias 1.2 billion population. ...
Extreme poverty is a multidimensional phenomenon. It is not just a lack of sufficient income; it involves many other factors too. Many international organisations still measure poverty based exclusively on income, such as the World Banks $1.90 a day definition. These approaches fail to capture the complexity of extreme poverty and its wide-ranging impact on human rights. According to UNDPs Human Development Report 2019, over 1.3 billion people are living in multidimensional poverty, when measured by the Multidimensional Poverty Index. ...
The Australian tax-transfer system targets those in need and, as a consequence, is prone to poverty traps, areas where higher private income leads to very little gain in disposable income, and high effective marginal tax rates (EMTRs) in general. This can severely impact on peoples ability to work their way out of poverty. Particularly acute disincentives face people in subsidised state rental housing. This paper examines available evidence on the EMTR problem, then looks at various incremental solutions before considering more radical solutions such as the negative income tax (NIT).. ...
www.livebelowtheline.com From May 7th-11th, thousands of Australians will be living on a day to raise money and awareness to combat extreme poverty. Participants challenge themselves to experience what it is like to face extreme poverty, and raise money from sponsors to support overseas development. Head to www.livebelowtheline.com to sign up or make a donation. We ran a competition asking LBLers to submit videos of their tips to (1), how to survive on a day, or (2), raise funds. This video is made from their entries.. Tags: 2, 2012, 720, aid, australia, below, challenge, Charitable, charity, community, CSA, dollar, Extreme Poverty, fundraising, HD, human, LBL, Line, live, live below the line, meal plan, nonprofit, oaktree, Oaktree Foundation, Organization, outreach, poverty, rights, the, video competition, web. ...
The impact of poverty on rural youth by Wayne L. Larson; 1 edition; First published in 1969; Subjects: Attitudes, Economic conditions, High school students, Rural poor, Social conditions
This paper evaluates the existing evidence of how and to what extent capture fisheries and aquaculture contribute to food security and poverty reduction. In doing so the authors evaluate the quality and scientific rigor of that evidence, identify the key conclusions that emerge from the literature, and assess whether these conclusions are consistent across the sources.
In the context of the Country Programme of Cooperation between the Government of Viet Nam and UNICEF 2006-2010, the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs (MOLISA) has coordinated the process of developing a new approach to child poverty for Viet Nam. Among the key outputs of this ongoing process are the child poverty rate and child poverty index presented in the present report.. The present report was prepared by Dr. Chris de Neubourgh, Dr. Franciska Gassman, and Keetie Roelen of the Graduate School of Governance, University of Maastricht, the Netherlands. It is the result of a multi-year process, involving extensive technical consultations and inputs from all relevant ministries including the Ministry of Labour, Invalids and Social Affairs, Ministry of Planning and Investment, Ministry of Health, Ministry of Education ...
Residents of low-poverty neighborhoods are more likely to have savings and to have higher total savings than those in high-poverty neighborhoods. The savings discrepancy is especially notable among low-income households: Fifty-nine percent of low-income families living in low-poverty neighborhoods have money they consider to be savings, and 54 percent have at least $1,000 in liquid assets, compared with just 35 percent and 28 percent, respectively, among residents with the same income who reside in high-poverty areas. Even when controlling for household income, net worth, homeownership, race, age cohort, household composition, and presence of children, families living in high-poverty communities have lower savings than those living in low-poverty neighborhoods.. ...
Considerable evidence has highlighted the heightened susceptibility of developmental delay in children from low-income homes; consequently, this study explored whether environmental toxicant exposure may be a contributing factor to disruption in language and cognitive development for children reared in poverty. Using a sample of 190 low-income mothers and their young children, mothers completed questionnaires on toxicant exposure in the home environment. Exposure to toxicants, especially pesticides, was reported by about 20% of mothers at or around pregnancy, and 30% when their children were between 1 and 2 years of age. Toxicant exposure was significantly associated with lags in language and cognition even when controlling for socioeconomic factors. Study findings highlight the importance of the American Academy of Pediatrics policy statements arguing for pediatricians to take a strong anticipatory guidance role in counseling parents to limit chemical exposure in the home and engage in safe ...
We at UNICEF believe that no child should have their chances limited by poverty. One step ahead for measuring and reporting child poverty- institutional approach organized by UNICEF Albania and INSTAT in partnership with Observatory for Children and Youth Rights brought together national and international experts to discuss about new tools and approaches to measure and report multidimensional child poverty and how to make the data relevant for policy discussions.. If child poverty and deprivation is prioritized and informs policies and programmes, change can happen. First step is to understand who and where are the poor children? What are the different measures of poverty and deprivation that children in Albania are facing? said Edina Kozma, Deputy Representative in Albania.. UNICEF Albania is working with INSTAT in producing child deprivation data according to the EUROSTAT child deprivation module, a new method of measuring child poverty included in the EU- SILC survey. Thanks to this ...
The Social Planning Council of Cambridge and North Dumfries (SPC) held its third annual Poverty Symposium as part of DIRECTIONS DAY on June 12, 2008. The importance and purpose of the 2008 symposium was to engage community groups in ideas and solutions around poverty reduction, to raise awareness of local and national poverty initiatives and to find and utilize a forum for community collaboration.. The SPC welcomed Peggy Matchim and Aisling Gogan, from Newfoundland and Labrador, to speak on the provinces Poverty Reduction Strategy. Aisling outlined the provincial Poverty Reduction Strategy while discussing the developmental process and how community partners were involved. Peggy focused on the community perspective and highlighted the successes and challenges of multi-sector collaboration in St. Johns. Also discussed were meaningful methods used to engage citizens and community reflections on the provinces Poverty Reduction Strategy.. Following the keynote speakers, there were four workshops ...
High unemployment rates continue to hinder poverty reduction efforts in Africa, says new report released this week, stressing that African countries must give priority to diversifying their economies to create decent jobs to boost social development.
The Title X program was created nearly 50 years ago to ensure low-income Americans can afford birth control and other reproductive healthcare. Each year, the Title X program provides 4 million low-income patients with affordable birth control, STD testing, cancer screenings and more. In fact, 60% of women get their usual medical care from a Title X-supported healthcare center. In Maine, 23,800 low-income people receive Title X services every year, the large majority of which are women seeking birth control. Independent providers around the country, like MFP, serve a crucial role in making this healthcare available and affordable to women and families.. Plaintiff(s): The Family Planning Association of Maine d/b/a Maine Family Planning Center Attorney(s): Emily Nestler. Co-Counsel/Cooperating Attorneys: Emily Ullman and Jennifer Saperstein with Covington & Burling LLP; Richard OMeara with Murray Plumb & Murray. Summary:. We filed our complaint in federal district court on March 6, 2019 and filed ...
Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on the Food Stamp Program, focusing on: (1) how the household definition evolved into its current form; (2) whether the current household definition contributes to homelessness; and (3) alternative household definitions for food stamp eligibility.GAO found that: (1) in 1971, a food stamp household was defined based on household members sharing their resources and living together; (2) in 1977, the food stamp household was changed to focus on individuals who purchased food and prepared meals together; (3) to help combat homelessness, the definition was broadened to permit adults who have minor children and live with their parents to form separate households if they purchase food and prepare meals separately; (4) the current definition of a food stamp household contains a disincentive which could discourage people from sharing housing, thereby contributing to homelessness; (5) six alternatives would group people on the basis of familial
The dynamics of rapid urbanisation and urban trends in the present neoliberal context, which arise from the production of space in the capitalist mode of production, are evident in the peripheries recently produced for and by low-income populations. This article examines these peripheries in representative southern African cities, with Maputo as the main case study, analysed in relation to Luanda and Johannesburg. Basing my argument on the overarching theory of the production of space, I seek to understand how the interventions undertaken by the state and low-income people, and the interrelationship between these two main agents and the urban morphology, vary according to the historical, political and socio-economic specificities of each country. I argue that in Maputo, more than in the other two cities, these specificities, expressed in the morphology of these peripheral areas, benefit some crucial aspects of the living and housing conditions of Maputos low-income population, which is the ...
Get this from a library! Georgia : poverty reduction strategy paper progress report.. [International Monetary Fund.;] -- This report is based on the progress of the Economic Development and Poverty Reduction Program (EDPRP) in Georgia. It highlights the status of measures intended for rapid and sustainable economic ...
In conjunction with the nonprofit organization, Days for Girls, CHOICE has started educating women in the Chulac region about feminine hygiene and reproduction health. Nurse Vilma, from the CHOICE Guatemala staff, has been trained and can now educate girls in the entire region. In addition to education, they receive a kit that includes a reusable sanitary napkin and a pair of underwear. For many, this is the first time in their life they have owned either.. This work directly ties to the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) that were created in 2000 by world leaders and the United Nations. The goals committed nations to a new global partnership to reduce extreme poverty and set out a series of eight time-bound targets; one of them being to promote gender equality and empower women.. With access to reusable sanitary supplies and education about reproduction, girls now have the equal access to education, and there is one less barrier to addressing the cycle of poverty.. *some information from Days ...
The article provides the first estimates of prevalence and trends in child poverty amongst young carers aged 5-19 in the UK using specialized income data from the Family Resources Survey / theHouseholds BelowAverage Income Survey. Looking across four key indicators, we find that child poverty rates were higher amongst young carers than other children based on 3 years pooled data for 2013/14-2015/16. The differences in the prevalence of child poverty amongst young carers and other children are statistically significant in relation to two indicators (anchored low income before housing costs, and a combined measure of low income and material deprivation). Young carers also appear to have fared worse than other children in terms of trends in child poverty outcomes over the period that coincided with the financial crisis, economic downturn and onset of austerity. Amongst young carers, there was a statistically significant increase in relative low income after housing costs of nine percentage points ...
Copyright@shravancharitymission Dr Sujata Tripathi and Kamlesh Tripathi with parents of poor child cancer patients SHRAVAN CHARITY MISSION VISITS APOLLO HOSPITAL DELHI ON 13TH OCTOBER TO CONTRIBUTE FOR POOR CHILDREN SUFFERING FROM CANCER SCM (Shravan Charity Mission) was formed to take care of poor children suffering from life threatening diseases. Since then it has…
Klohe-Lehman DM, et al. Nutrition knowledge is associated with greater weight loss in obese and overweight low-income mothers. J Am Diet Assoc. Jan 2006;106(1):65-75.. The purpose of this study was to determine whether greater nutrition knowledge or gains in knowledge promoted more successful weight loss in low-income overweight and obese mothers with young children. The findings revealed that participants with overall greater knowledge lost the most weight.. ...
Baltimore citys poverty rate stands above 25 percent.. New U.S. Census Bureau data for the state of Maryland shows that the poverty rate in the city has risen since the recession of 2008 by about 5 percentage points.. The information was published in a report released this month by the Maryland Department of Planning. Read the report here. ...
In 2000, the United Nations Millennium Summit adopted the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to address extreme poverty [1]. The purpose of these goals is multidimensional: promotion of education and environmental sustainability; alleviation of hunger; fostering gender equality; and improving the health of impoverished populations to encourage economic growth and reduce poverty and inequality [1, 2]. In Latin America, these goals were reaffirmed in the Declaration of the Special Summit of the Americas, which was held in Monterrey, Mexico in 2004 [2]. Almost 3 years after this event, progress in poverty alleviation programs is insufficient to meet the goal of halving the proportion of people living in extreme poverty in the region by the year 2015 [2]. In order to achieve these goals, more than 9 million children need to attend school; many millions of women and girls need to enjoy enhanced participation in society and security. In addition, people need to drink safe water, enjoy basic sanitary ...
While driving the clogged freeways of California, I listened to an NPR show in which the central complaint was the inequality of income distribution in the United States. Walter Benn Michaels bashes universities for being obsessed with admitting rich kids with Hispanic last names or dark skin, instead of kids from poor families. Nobody raised what to me seemed like obvious questions, e.g.,. 1) Should we stop accepting poor immigrants if we are worried about income distribution? A Somali immigrant might end up achieving a higher standard of living here than in Somalia, but he or she is going to swell the ranks of below-average earners.. 2) Are the people whom we consider poor today better or worse off, materially, than Americas poor were in the 1950s or 1970s?. 3) Is it inevitable that as an economy gets more complex, those who are clever and talented will find ways to get rich that werent available in a simpler economy? (And people who arent clever or talented wont get any boost.). Question ...
Poverty gap at urban poverty line is the mean shortfall from the poverty line (counting the nonpoor as having zero shortfall) as a percentage of the national urban poverty line. This measure reflects the depth of poverty as well as its incidence.This page has the latest values, historical data, forecasts, charts, statistics, an economic calendar and news for Poverty gap at urban poverty line (%) in Cambodia.
We are hugely excited about the publication of the evaluation report for the Greater London Authority (GLA) Tackling Child Poverty Through Schools pilot programme. WSA Community Consultants delivered the external evaluation together with our partners Kim Donahue Consulting, Small Change and Gillian Granville.. The pilot project was developed as part of the Mayor of Londons commitment to tackling child poverty as a strategic objective included in the Mayors Equality Diversity and Inclusion Strategy The overarching aim of the pilot programme was:. To demonstrate the benefits of working in partnership with schools and local services to provide targeted support to low-income families to help reduce child poverty in participating schools.. From April 2019, the GLA commissioned CPAG to pilot an approach to working with schools to support them in tackling the symptoms and some of the underlying causes of child poverty. This involved appointing a small number of School Coordinators to work ...
While a two-index poverty measure provides a clean measure of nonmedical needs against non-medical resources, it does not entirely solve the problem of how to treat medical needs in measuring poverty. It may be relatively easy to determine a threshold of medical risk, defining a package of basic medical services based on current information--for example, the benefit package identified in the Health Security Act proposed by the Clinton administration, or the largest federal employee health benefits plan (Institute for Research on Poverty, p. 26). (1) Updating the basic package, however, presents a problem--standards for medical treatment have changed over the last few decades, and the pace of medical innovation is increasing while the cost of medical care continues to rise. As the Panel notes, updating the poverty measure for prices alone may be even less appropriate for medical care than for other goods (Institute for Research on Poverty, p. 26).. For the nonmedical measure of poverty, the Panel ...
For many years Gini coefficient has been the measure for showing distribution of wealth or divide between rich and poor or discrepancy of income. From wikkipedia entry we define : The Gini coefficient (also known as the Gini index or Gini ratio) is a measure of statistical dispersion developed by the Italian statistician and sociologist Corrado Gini and published in his 1912 paper Variability and Mutability.…
The literature on economic growth and development has focused considerable attention on questions of risk management and the possibility of multiple equilibria associated with poverty traps. We use herd history data collected among pastoralists in southern Ethiopia to study stochastic wealth dynamics among a very poor population. These data yield several novel findings. Although covariate rainfall shocks plainly matter, household-specific factors, including own herd size, account for most observed variability in wealth dynamics. Despite longstanding conventional wisdom about common property grazing lands, we find no statistical support for the tragedy of the commons hypothesis. It appears that past studies may have conflated costly self-insurance with stocking rate externalities. Such self-insurance is important in this setting because weak livestock markets and meager social insurance cause wealth to fluctuate largely in response to biophysical shocks. These shocks move households between multiple
Summary:. This 2010 Progress Report on the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) focuses on the poverty condition in Mali. The incidence of poverty in Mali fell from 55.6 percent in 2001 to 43.6 percent in 2010. Over the past decade, poverty has fallen in rural areas, in Bamako, and in other urban areas. However, it increased in Bamako and in other urban areas between 2006 and 2010. The government has reaffirmed its commitment to accelerate economic growth, to make Mali an agricultural power by 2015, and to combat poverty effectively.. ...
People with intellectual or developmental disabilities (IDD) face higher levels of poverty than others, which can lead to concerns regarding areas of well-being, such as food security. Young adults with IDD who are, in many cases, transitioning from the system of educational, health care, and income supports of their youth into the adult world may be particularly vulnerable. Using pooled data from the 2011-2014 National Health Interview Survey, we find that young adults with IDD have significantly higher levels of food insecurity than young adults without disabilities, even when controlling for poverty. Young adults with IDD who are living in low-income households are not significantly more likely to participate in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) than young adults without disabilities who are also living in low-income households. Although our results suggest that SNAP is effectively reaching many young adults with IDD in need of nutrition assistance, further research is ...
Sokode-Gbogame (V/R), Feb. 8, GNA - Dr David Amoah, National Coordinator of the Ecumenical Association for Sustainable Agricultural and Rural Development (ECASARD) on Monday expressed the need for collaboration among organisations executing poverty reduction programmes in the country.
What is the human cost of the global economic crisis? This years Global Monitoring Report, The MDGs after the Crisis, examines the impact of the worst recession since the Great Depression on poverty and human development outcomes in developing countries. Although the recovery is under way, the impact of the crisis will be lasting and immeasurable. The impressive precrisis progress in poverty reduction will slow, particularly in low-income countries in Africa. No household in developing countries is immune. Gaps will persist to 2020. In 2015, 20 million more people in Sub-Saharan Africa will be in extreme poverty and 53 million more people globally. Even households above the $1.25-a-day poverty line in higher-income developing countries are coping by buying cheaper food, delaying other purchases, reducing visits to doctors, working longer hours, or taking multiple jobs. The crisis will also have serious costs on human development indicators: • 1.2 million more children under age five and ...
for women religious in sub-Saharan Africa who are caregivers to the HIV/AIDS community and those challenged by extreme poverty. Through specialized training and spiritual practice, Sisters empower one another to collaborate on programs that prevent the spread of AIDS, and lessen the impact of extreme poverty on family and community life. Sister to Sister also educates people in the U.S. about AIDS in Africa as one of the diseases of poverty, and the healing mission of the global Catholic Church ...
This February our team is participating in the Seventh Annual Quack Attack on Poverty 5k benefiting United Against Poverty. During the race we will be making our way through a 3.1 mile course featuring bubble, squirt gun and quack zones…all while wearing an inflatable duck-shaped pool float around our waists! Were really looking forward to being part of this event and making a meaningful impact in this community.. This race benefits United Against Poverty Orlando, a nonprofit that helps lift working poor and low income families to self-sufficiency. UP Orlando is not a traditional food bank or soup kitchen. Their programs focus on teaching empowerment, rather than entitlement, to help our struggling neighbors break free from the cycle of poverty. Their campus located at 150 W. Michigan Street and serves an average of 525 families each day.. I hope you will join our team in helping UP Orlando lead community-driven programs that produce deep and lasting change. Please consider making a donation ...
This February I am participating in the Seventh Annual Quack Attack on Poverty 5k benefiting United Against Poverty. During the race I will be making my way through a 3.1 mile course featuring bubble, squirt gun and quack zones…all while wearing an inflatable duck-shaped pool float around my waist! Im really looking forward to being part of this event and making a meaningful impact in this community.. This race benefits United Against Poverty Orlando, a nonprofit that helps lift working poor and low income families to self-sufficiency. UP Orlando is not a traditional food bank or soup kitchen. Their programs focus on teaching empowerment, rather than entitlement, to help our struggling neighbors break free from the cycle of poverty. Their campus located at 150 W. Michigan Street and serves an average of 525 families each day.. I hope you will join me in helping UP Orlando lead community-driven programs that produce deep and lasting change. Please consider making a donation by clicking the ...
UCLA researchers plan to use an $11 million federal grant to fund three studies that will look at how low-income communities of color can reduce disparately high rates of stroke among their ranks.. The money will go to the universitys Los Angeles Stroke Prevention/Intervention Research Program in Health Disparities, a research center thats partnered with health care systems, organizations and city agencies throughout Los Angeles County.. The funding comes from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, one of the 27 institutes of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).. Dr. Barbara Vickrey, the director of the Los Angeles Stroke Prevention/Intervention Research Program in Health Disparities, noted that every year the country sees nearly 800,000 strokes, which are the fourth-leading cause of death in the U.S.. Weve got a big problem, she said. We know there are things we can treat to reduce the risk. Those things include high blood pressure, high cholesterol and ...
This study was examined to investigate the impact of environmental poverty on the criminal behavior of young people in marginal areas. The population of this study included all the youths in the marginalized schools of Isfahan. Sampling was done randomly. The sample size includes 358 students in marginalized areas. For youth with high PC, significant factors included high levels of attitudes toward agreements and conditions, motivation of treatment, perseverance, and bonding to school/work, as well as low levels of risk in peer relations and education/employment. For youth with limited PC, buffering factors with the strongest effects include self-control and future orientation in school or work. Implications of practice and future research were discussed too.
High out-of-pocket health care costs may have serious repercussions for older people and their families. This paper examines the impact of health problems at older ages on out-of-pocket health care spending and other types of expenditures. The results show that medical conditions increase health spending, particularly for households ages 51 to 64, but do not generally reduce nonhealth spending. Health conditions do, however, reduce nonhealth spending for low-income households ages 51 to 64, suggesting that holes in the health safety net before the Medicare eligibility age force some low-income people to lower their living standards to cover medical expenses ...
President Obamas proposed 2012 budget will cut several billion dollars from the governments energy assistance fund for poor people, officials briefed on the subject told National Journal….. The Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program, or LIHEAP, would see funding drop by about $2.5 billion from an authorized 2009 total of $5.1 billion. The proposed cut will not touch the programs emergency reserve fund, about $590 million, which can be used during particularly harsh cold snaps or extended heat spells, three officials told National Journal.. In 2010, Obama signed into law an omnibus budget resolution that released a total of about $5 billion in LIHEAP grants for 2011. Pointing to the increasing number of Americans who made use of the grants last year, advocates say that LIHEAP is already underfunded. The American Gas Association predicts that 3 million Americans eligible for the program wont be able to receive it unless LIHEAP funding stays at its current level….. Still, despite the ...
Title: The effect of technological transfer program participation on small farms in Chile.. Theme: 2F. Abstract: This research examines the effect of a government sponsored agricultural technology transfer program for small holder farms in Chile. This program has been characterized as a model of semi-privatized agricultural extension, making examination of the effectiveness of the Chilean agricultural extension system of interest to policymakers and researchers seeking ways to enhance the efficiency of agricultural technology transfer. The effect of family participation in the technology transfer program is evaluated with respect to outcomes including its effect on farm revenues, family income, and household poverty status. The empirical examination uses maximum likelihood selection and fixed- and random-effects estimation techniques. Results show program participation had a positive and statistically significant effect on farm revenues and total family income. Estimates of program effect on ...
The number of children at risk of poverty - almost one in four - remains high in the European Union. As 2019 marks the 30th anniversary of the adoption of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, the opportunity arises to take stock of what the European Union is doing to fight child poverty. Even though legal competence for child policy remains primarily with the Member States, the fight against child poverty is a major priority of the European Union (EU). The Europe 2020 Strategy and the European Pillar of Social Rights reflect the EUs increasing willingness to tackle child poverty, while the use of European funds is key to success. The European Parliament has always been at the forefront of this fight, most recently with the promotion of a Child Guarantee Scheme.
The Bicycle Industry or Cycling Industry can broadly be defined as the industry concerned with bicycles and cycling. It includes at least bicycle manufacturers, part or component manufacturers, and accessory manufacturers. It can also include distributors, retailers, bicycle organizations, bicycle event promoters, and bicycle related service providers. In the United States, it generated $6 billion of revenue in 2005. Bicycle Technologies International Quality Bicycle Products Interbike Frostbike Eurobike Besides advocating for greater safety, comfort, and convenience for bicyclists, many members of the industry promote bicycles for poverty alleviation. Experiments done in Africa (Uganda and Tanzania) and Sri Lanka on hundreds of households have shown that a bicycle can increase the income of a poor family by as much as 35%. Transport, if analyzed for the cost-benefit analysis for rural poverty alleviation, has given one of the best returns in this regard. For example, road investments in India ...
When poverty levels were split into quartiles, the quartile counties with the most poverty (22.5%-40.3% residents below poverty line) had a 7.44% rate of URD alloHCT while the quartile of counties with the least poverty (3.2%-12.7% residents below poverty line) had an 11.73% rate of URD alloHCT.. The estimated rate ratio for prevalence of alloHCT by poverty rate was 0.86 for every 10% rise in incidence of poverty (P =.003). The estimated rate ratio for alloHCT prevalence by rural status was 0.87, but this was not a significant factor (P =.11).. The researchers noted that patients with ALL, AML, or MDS who lived in areas with high poverty rates were less likely to receive an URD alloHCT, and this association remained significant after adjusting for potential confounds such as rural residency and racial origin. They recommended further research on the most suitable strategies to reduce disparities in access to alloHCT.. Reference. ...
have significantly increased living standards among the poor. More than 40 percent of the country buys subsidized food, and millions of poor people have access to free health care that was previously unavailable. If these are taken into account, the measured poverty rate would drop well below 30 percent. The poverty rate when Chavez took office, in the first quarter of 1999, was 42.8 percent. So there is a meaningful measure of poverty reduction, especially if non-cash benefits are taken into account. Also, the government declared in October that 1.48 million Venezuelans have been taught to read as a result of a massive literacy drive that began in 2003. Although there is so far no independent verification of the number, even if it turned out to be significantly overestimated, there is no doubt that a very large number of Venezuelans (total population: 25 million) have learned to read under the program.. Following the 2004 recall referendum, in which Chavez won 58 percent of the vote, the ...
If chained CPI, a Social Security COLA is cut, the median benefit for African-American single women seniors will dip below the poverty line.
The Center on Poverty and Social Policy (CPSP) at the Columbia School of Social Work produces cutting-edge research to advance our understanding of poverty and the role of social policy in reducing po
Leiden LIS Budget Incidence Fiscal Redistribution Dataset on Relative Income Poverty Rates (2019), assembled by Koen Caminada and Jinxian Wang (Version 1, February 2019), presents the disentanglement of relative income poverty measurers and the anti-poverty effects of social transfers and income taxes…
Tax and Transfer Policy Institute (March 2017). This paper uses detailed information about household supermarket purchases from the Australian Nielsen Homescan Survey to estimate price elasticities of demand for a range of food categories. An instrumental variable strategy is employed to address endogeneity issues. The estimates obtained from our analysis are used to study five scenarios in which the rate of the GST on food categories is increased or in which the tax base is broadened to include currently GST-free categories. Our findings reveal that there is considerable scope for raising revenue by increasing the rate and broadening the tax base. Low-income households (the bottom 40% of the income distribution) can be compensated for the loss in consumption induced by a tax increase. We demonstrate that increasing the rate of the GST from 10% to 15% and broadening the tax base would increase tax revenues by up to $8.6 billion, whereas compensating low-income households would require up to $2.2 ...
The relationship between poverty and poor health are strikingly apparent in the United States. People living below the federal poverty line have a shorter life expectancy and higher incidence of chronic disease than those with higher incomes. The poor, however, are less likely than the non-poor to have recent contact with a physician or engage in preventive care. This article discusses the significance of chronic disease management in improving health outcomes for low-income individuals and in reducing preventable health-related expenditures from a provider perspective. The article concludes with a discussion of the role of community health and social workers in coordinating care between providers and poor patients.. According to data from the 2001-2005 National Health Interview Survey (NHIS), poor children, defined as those living at or below the federal poverty level, are more likely than other children to suffer chronic health problems (Currie and Lin 2007). Conditions such as asthma and ...
Well at least the poor arent starving in the backwards south by the looks of things. :no: More than 22 percent of Mississippians lived in poverty last year, making the state the poorest in the nation. New Mexico trailed closely behind with a 20 percent poverty rate, according to updated U.S. Census figures. New Hampshire, Maryland and Alaska had fewer than 10 percent of their populations living in poverty. Overall, 15 percent of Americans were poor last year, the highest rate