Poor poverty. Medical search. Frequent questions

In dramatic new numbers, researchers estimate that extreme poverty could spike as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, on the day the postponed meeting of the world's richest nations, the G7, should have finished. (kcl.ac.uk)
The cost of the crisis in lost income could reach US$500 million per day for the world's poorest people, and the intensity and severity of poverty are likely to be exacerbated dramatically. (kcl.ac.uk)
The world's poorest can't wait until the G7 meet in September or the G20 meet in November,' he added. (kcl.ac.uk)
These new estimates about the level of poverty in the world and the cost of the COVID-19 pandemic to the world's poor are sobering. (kcl.ac.uk)
Banker to the Poor is Muhammad Yunus's memoir of how he changed his life to help the world's poor. (isbn.nu)
In fact, while marginalised communities are more fragile than ever in the midst of the global pandemic, it's a devastating move that could undermine lifesaving UK support for the world's poorest people. (globalcitizen.org)
If that is removed too, then there will be nobody in the UK cabinet to solely champion the needs of the world's poorest people in the global response to the virus. (globalcitizen.org)
Despite its growing economy, Ethiopia is still considered among the world's poorest countries. (crosscatholic.org)
The world's poor are still losing out. (newint.org)

The other 5,000 households will function as a control group, continuing as they have, scrounging out a living in one of Haiti's poorest and most isolated places. (marginalrevolution.com)
The evidence shows that employment does not always lift families out of poverty: there are more poor children in households with a wage-earner than without. (theconversation.com)
The official series shows no sustained improvement in poverty in recent decades, while the better estimates from Early and Meyer-Sullivan suggest large gains for households near the bottom. (nationalinterest.org)
So from the start I think a grassroots War on Poverty today should allow for people to be the real experts on poverty and to recognize that, you know, they balance the budgets in their households, they know what kinds of services their communities need, they know what kinds of jobs people would like to be trained for or are trained for in, you know, underemployed areas. (therealnews.com)
According to Eurofound, in 2018 there were more than 20 million workers in the European Union living in households at risk of poverty-an increase of in-work poverty from 8 to 10 per cent since 2006. (eapn.eu)
Among poor households with children, even in good economic times, the amount of work is low, with an average of 16 hours per week . (thepublicdiscourse.com)
Households below that poverty level, are "poor. (deseret.com)
Ethiopia's poorest households lack access to life's most basic necessities, including food and clean water. (crosscatholic.org)
The study found that, due to financial shocks, the risk of households falling below the subsistence level and into a poverty trap is high. (iiasa.ac.at)
More than 560,000 people in approximately 200,000 Jewish households are poor or near-poor, and 45% of the children in Jewish households now live in poor or near-poor households. (ynetnews.com)
Approximately 90% of poor Jewish households are located in New York City, as are 84% of near-poor households. (ynetnews.com)
The new report found that Jewish poverty in the eight-county New York area affects widely diverse groups of Jewish households. (ynetnews.com)
Single-parent households, households that include a person with a disability, and others who are unemployed or underemployed are also heavily represented among the Jewish poor. (ynetnews.com)
But it is also concentrated in Hasidic, Russian-speaking, and senior households, which account for two-thirds of the poverty in the Jewish community. (ynetnews.com)
The decennial poverty report defined poor households as ones whose annual income is less than 150% of the 2010 federal poverty guideline. (ynetnews.com)
For the first time, the report includes comprehensive data about Jewish near-poor households, households with annual income between 150% and 250% of the 2010 federal poverty guideline. (ynetnews.com)
A significant portion of poor and near-poor households include someone who is either working full-time or self-employed. (ynetnews.com)

People living in poverty often need a boost in confidence and skills before they start up education again. (theconversation.com)
The World Poverty Clock had named Nigeria the poverty capital of the world last June when it revealed that Nigeria had 87 million people living in poverty. (punchng.com)
The overall share of people living in poverty was 10.5%, down 1.3% and the lowest since 1959. (deseret.com)
After exploring many case studies across the developing world, and delving into the financial ramifications of extending massive aid to poor countries, the authors conclude that people living in poverty need a few things to be successful: proper education, enough food, and good health. (orantcharitiesafrica.org)

She is affiliated with the Child Poverty Action Group. (theconversation.com)
This is the way the UK government believes it can alleviate child poverty, built on a belief in the power of education to create social mobility. (theconversation.com)
In 2000, Scotland had higher child poverty rates than England, but this has fallen over the past decade . (theconversation.com)
Yet my research with the Child Poverty Action Group shows that parents - in this case single mothers - who accessed further and higher education succeeded in finding paid employment and that this had a positive impact on both them and their children. (theconversation.com)
Ms. Ellman's office told us that the figure for absolute poverty she used at PMQs came from the Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission's "State of the Nation 2014" report. (fullfact.org)
In addition, too many welfare programs include a marriage penalty, discouraging the strongest protector against child poverty . (thepublicdiscourse.com)
This is sometimes called making the credit "fully refundable," and it is the key driver of the historic, more-than-40-percent reduction in child poverty achieved by the Rescue Plan's expansion, which also raises the amount of the credit from $2,000 per child to $3,000 or $3,600, depending on the age of the child. (cbpp.org)
And the reduction in child poverty from full refundability will likely have important long-term positive impacts on children, including on their educational outcomes and future health and earnings. (cbpp.org)
Taken together, these policies left this nation with a far higher child poverty rate than similarly wealthy countries that offer broad-based child allowances, while failing to raise U.S. labor force participation above most of those same countries. (cbpp.org)
The nation's high child poverty rate and gaping racial, ethnic, and geographic disparities in child poverty have translated into lost opportunities for millions of children and lost contributions to the nation as a whole. (cbpp.org)

But as we all know, neither research nor policy by themselves can eradicate poverty. (asianage.com)
The founder of the Grameen Bank relates how he developed the system of micro-credit to help eradicate poverty in countries such as Bangladesh by providing financial education and small loans to rural families. (isbn.nu)
This information leads to perceptions about the causes of poverty, and in turn, ideas about how to eradicate poverty. (wikipedia.org)

Launched by Lyndon B. Johnson 50 years ago today, the War on Poverty started programs like Medicare, Medicaid, Food Stamps to help alleviate poverty in this country, did not, of course, address the root causes of poverty. (therealnews.com)
And you mention that they didn't recognize the root or attack the root causes of poverty. (therealnews.com)
But by slipping into making a certain kind of resilience, as opposed to reducing the causes of poverty and trauma, the goal becomes a serious problem. (shelterforce.org)
Government may be able to provide material assistance, but it has failed to address the deeper causes of poverty. (thepublicdiscourse.com)
Attributions for poverty is a theory concerned with what people believe about the causes of poverty. (wikipedia.org)
When considering the causes of poverty, people form attributions using the same tools: the information they have and mental shortcuts that are based on their experiences. (wikipedia.org)
This individualistic view aligns with tendencies to blame the poor for their condition, since the causes of poverty are perceived to be from personal deficiencies. (wikipedia.org)
However, a study in 1996 in southern California found that structuralist views were more popular in explaining the causes of poverty, which displays more recently the influence of systemic and external drivers of poverty. (wikipedia.org)

Therefore, the Nobel laureate outlines his vision for a new business model-a social business model-which he believes will be an avenue to poverty alleviation. (grameen.com)
We look at how poverty is created and maintained, highlight the experiences of marginalized communities, the injustices of austerity and critique saviour-centric means of poverty alleviation. (newint.org)

There are still some 870 million workers living with their families on less than US$2 per person per day, of which nearly 400 million are living in extreme poverty. (ilo.org)
In this framework, the expansion of opportunities to work in conditions of freedom, security, equity and dignity is a critical goal and all the more urgent for people living in extreme poverty. (ilo.org)
The World Bank says a person can be said to be living in extreme poverty if they live below the poverty line of $1.90 which translates to N693.5 per day. (punchng.com)

We know relatively little about this persistence of poverty in the past and whether it changed as modern welfare societies developed. (lu.se)

It is timely to focus on the discrimination faced by many women and men living in situations of extreme poverty - the theme of this Day . (ilo.org)
Establishing social protection floors that assure basic social protection for all in extreme poverty situations, helping to reduce their vulnerabilities and build capabilities. (ilo.org)
This implies that virtually half of Nigeria's population now live in extreme poverty. (punchng.com)
Extreme poverty could rise to over 1 billion people globally as a result of the crisis. (kcl.ac.uk)
The COVID-19 crisis could take extreme poverty back over 1 billion people. (kcl.ac.uk)
If we don't step up to achieve the UN's Global Goals in 2020, we won't come close to ending extreme poverty by 2030. (globalcitizen.org)
Boris Johnson announced on Tuesday that the Department for International Development (DfID) - the sole wing of the UK government devoted to ending extreme poverty - will be scrapped and merged into the Foreign Office (FCO). (globalcitizen.org)
DfID is responsible for spending the bulk of the UK's international aid budget - the only part of our national budget dedicated to tackling the shocking extreme poverty that leaves 736 million people living on less than $1.90 per day. (globalcitizen.org)
When England last won the World Cup, half the planet lived in extreme poverty. (globalcitizen.org)
Abolishing @DFID_UK seriously undermines the UK's efforts to end extreme poverty. (globalcitizen.org)
Demand #UKAid tackles extreme poverty first. (globalcitizen.org)

The numbers are higher for Alaska and Hawaii, because it costs considerably more to live in those states, the Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin said. (deseret.com)

Rather than untangling the complicated causes of concentrated poverty, the liberal establishment blames concentrated poverty for the poor educational attainment of children and deficient child-rearing practices of adults. (shelterforce.org)

The country's recent economic hardships, such as the 2006-2008 recession, has pushed up individual poverty , neighborhood-wide (social) poverty, the overall percentage of people and that of poor people living in high-poverty neighborhoods, the researchers said. (zmescience.com)
For International Day of Democracy, Iris Gonzales offers snap shots of the country's corruption, poverty and drug war. (newint.org)
However, you can't deny that poverty is one of the country's most significant obstacles. (thaiguider.com)

With revealing stories, Gary Rivlin spotlights the systematic, widespread economic abuse of the poor by supposedly respectable corporations whose predatory conduct breeds misery and undoes many efforts by taxpayers to alleviate poverty. (doylestownbookshop.com)

As of 2023, it is difficult to say whether Thailand, as a whole, is rich or poor. (thaiguider.com)

Banerjee, Duflo and Kremer got the Nobel for their work on randomised control trials (RCT), which has its origins in medical science, but which is now used for public policies on a range of issues, including poverty eradication, better learning outcomes and health and education, thanks greatly to their efforts. (asianage.com)
We cannot be indifferent - change requires collective responsibility towards the poorest and most vulnerable," says ILO Director-General Guy Ryder in a statement issued on International Day for the Eradication of Poverty. (ilo.org)

The government says that America's poverty rate is 11.8 percent. (nationalinterest.org)
The approximately $20 trillion (adjusted for inflation) in government welfare spending over the last fifty years has no doubt boosted the material living standards of America's poor. (thepublicdiscourse.com)
From the author of the New York Times Notable Book of the Year Drive By comes a unique and riveting exploration of one of America's largest and fastest-growing industries-the business of poverty. (doylestownbookshop.com)

The project 'Working, Yet Poor', is funded under the Horizon 2020 scheme and will last for 3 years. (eapn.eu)

Note that all poverty rate calculations stem from essentially arbitrary poverty thresholds measured in relation to a chosen base year. (nationalinterest.org)
4 Based on family income and family size, using the U.S. Census Bureau's poverty thresholds. (cdc.gov)

Concentrated poverty is on the rise in the US again, with the number of neighborhoods where 40% or more of the population lives below the federal poverty levels of all races increasing for the first time since the 1990s, Penn State demographers report. (zmescience.com)
Federal poverty guidelines are the foundation for deciding who gets aid from government and other programs designed to help disadvantaged Americans. (deseret.com)
There's broad agreement the methodology underpinning federal poverty guidelines is outdated and needs improved. (deseret.com)

Tackling global poverty: Do the poor get a voice? (asianage.com)
Do the poor have a voice in debates about global poverty? (asianage.com)
The political debate on why so many of the poor remain poor, how they got there, as well as how best to help them is likely to continue despite this year's Nobel Memorial Prize for Economic Sciences to Abhijit Banerjee, his wife and colleague Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer for their experimental approach to alleviating global poverty. (asianage.com)
The researchers are now calling for urgent global leadership from the G7, G20, and the multilateral system, and will propose a three-point plan to address the impact of COVID-19 on global poverty quickly. (kcl.ac.uk)
The estimates show that poverty is likely to increase dramatically in middle-income developing countries and there could be a significant change in the distribution of global poverty. (kcl.ac.uk)
The location of global poverty could shift back towards developing countries in South Asia and East Asia. (kcl.ac.uk)
The authors will propose a three-point plan to address the global poverty impacts. (kcl.ac.uk)
As we look forward to this weekend's global poverty festival, we've got some stark new census numbers to consider about poverty right here at home. (msnbc.com)
It both accurately describes causes of global poverty and offers realistic approaches to overcoming it. (orantcharitiesafrica.org)

The appearance by a major candidate was a significant achievement for the Poor People's Campaign, which first hosted several Democratic presidential candidates in Washington, D.C., for a forum in June of 2019. (ncronline.org)
Biden appeared to refer to the 2019 gathering in his remarks on Monday, saying, "I promised you that we'd not only talk about [poverty], but that we'd do something about it together. (ncronline.org)
According to the World Poverty Clock which was created by Vienna-based World Data Lab, 91.16 million Nigerians were living below a dollar a day as of February 13, 2019. (punchng.com)
According to the U.S. Census Bureau's 2019 data , the median U.S. household income was $68,703, up 6.8% from 2018, while a family of four with a household income of $25,750 or less was considered poor. (deseret.com)
Among children, 14.4% lived in poverty in 2019, while 9.4% of working-age adults 18 to 64 lived in poverty. (deseret.com)
Orant Charities' staff first discovered Poor Economics in 2019, which inspired Orant to focus on the data-driven and holistic approaches that define our work today. (orantcharitiesafrica.org)

What constitutes poverty to someone living in north America may appear very differently to someone living in parts of India or Africa. (famvin.org)

This paper addresses household-level disaster financing strategies of the poor in developing countries within the context of current poverty trap discussions. (iiasa.ac.at)

Americans hate the poor, and deeply resent the idea of any of their money going to help them. (salon.com)
There's little political upside in promising to help the poor, and for years Democrats have only ever promised to help "all Americans" and "the middle class. (salon.com)
A Pulitzer-winning sociologist argues that the United States's gross inequality is no accident It's no wonder Americans have failed to eliminate poverty, sociologist Matthew Desmond maintains in his new book. (blogbookmark.com)
The reason we should improve on the official poverty measure is that it does a poor job of identifying who the neediest Americans are, how much our antipoverty programs reduce poverty, how we have done over time reducing poverty, and how different groups or regions compare against each other," Scott Winship, resident scholar and director of poverty studies at the American Enterprise Institute, told the Deseret News. (deseret.com)
In the 1970s and 1980s, researchers found consistent preference among Americans for an individualistic view to explain poverty, which focuses the personal ability and effort-related factors. (wikipedia.org)
It was noted that the poor and minority populations, especially migrant farm workers and Native Americans, suffer disproportionately from ill health. (cdc.gov)

The Child of the North: Addressing Education and Health Inequity report highlights how children born into the poorest fifth of families in the UK are almost 13 times more likely to experience poor health and educational outcomes by the age of 17. (york.ac.uk)
The report illustrates how public services in the North of England have come together to create innovative approaches that bring health and education together to deal with the poor outcomes faced by children and young people. (york.ac.uk)
Taking away the full credit from children based on their parents' earnings would needlessly leave in poverty - or push deeper into poverty - the children who need help the most, injuring their long-term health and educational outcomes and reducing their earnings as adults, while doing virtually nothing to boost parental employment. (cbpp.org)
This study both analyses determinants of childhood poverty and assesses the association between childhood poverty and economic outcomes in adulthood for men and women who grew up in southern Sweden, and who were followed to adulthood regardless of where in Sweden they resided. (lu.se)

Luxemburg : Working, Yet Poor, 2022. (lu.se)
Hartzén, A-C & Pietrogiovanni, V 2022, The Role of the Social Partners in Addressing In-Work Poverty . (lu.se)

And their motto was: we can do it and do it better, by which they meant that poor people are the real experts on poverty. (therealnews.com)

Although the conventional wisdom in South Asian rural villages is that men are principally responsible for pulling their families out of poverty, our recent study showed the truth to be more subtle, and more female. (cimmyt.org)
In fact, our life story sample captured 12 women who testified to making substantial contributions to moving their families out of poverty. (cimmyt.org)
Among the women who got ahead, a large majority credited an important man in their life with flouting local customs and directly supporting them to innovate in their agricultural livelihoods and bring their families out of poverty. (cimmyt.org)

Yunus firmly believes that Bangladesh can escape from poverty completely by 2030 and that the role of micro-credit, social business and ICT (Information and Communication Technology) will be crucial towards that end. (grameen.com)

The actual poverty impacts will be determined by what governments do to mitigate the damaging consequences of the pandemic. (kcl.ac.uk)
Any reflection on how the pandemic will affect in-work poverty and inequalities in Europe would need to consider the multi-layered nature of those phenomena and the role of EU institutions in combating them. (eapn.eu)

The World Poverty Clock is a tool to monitor progress against poverty globally. (punchng.com)
It also says that the poverty rate has hovered around 11 to 15 percent since 1970 suggesting little or no progress against poverty in decades. (nationalinterest.org)

The authors note that the demographics, as well as the location of high-poverty neighborhoods, has changed since the 1990s. (zmescience.com)
It used to be thought of as black, inner-city poverty, but now more Hispanics and a higher proportion of whites are living in high-poverty neighborhoods," Iceland said. (zmescience.com)
In the 2000s, some 20.5% of poor blacks lived in high-poverty neighborhoods, a figure which increased to 23.1% between 2010 and 2014. (zmescience.com)
The Arewa Economic Renewal Forum has said that poor leadership has been the main reason for the high poverty rate in northern Nigeria. (concernednigerians.com)

But the Census Bureau's official poverty rate is biased upwards and kind of meaningless. (nationalinterest.org)
And they both correct for the fact that the Census-in its main poverty series-excludes numerous government benefits including Medicaid, food stamps, and earned income tax credits. (nationalinterest.org)
The charts below show the Early and Meyer-Sullivan poverty rates compared to the official Census series. (nationalinterest.org)
Using data gathered by the U.S. Census Bureau from 1980-2000 and data gathered through the American Community Survey from 2000-2014, the team says concentrated poverty, which saw a rise in the 1980s and gradually eased during the 1990s, is making a comeback throughout all demographics in the US. (zmescience.com)
Stark new census numbers show that 1 in 5 American children live in poverty. (msnbc.com)

The Supplemental Poverty Measure, developed by the Office of Management and Budget during Barack Obama's presidency and used since 2011, considers income including noncash benefits like food stamps and the earned income tax credit and expenses like child care costs to try to create a better picture of a household's finances. (deseret.com)

Tobacco impacts poverty and hunger. (who.int)

Former Vice President Joe Biden addressed the faith-based anti-poverty group the Poor People's Campaign at a virtual event on Sept. 14, telling its members, "I want to be part of your movement. (ncronline.org)
His arsenal of anti-poverty programs meant to strike "at the causes, not just the consequences of poverty" by providing individuals "the opportunity to develop skills, continue education, and find useful work. (thepublicdiscourse.com)

Improve the school results of children from poor backgrounds and they will escape poverty in adulthood. (theconversation.com)
And while the long-term goal to increase social mobility is laudable, it does nothing to lift children out of poverty now. (theconversation.com)
Instead, it shows a lack of consideration for the lives of children currently living in poverty . (theconversation.com)
Yet if policy priorities were to focus on giving the parents of children living in poverty access to further and higher education, this could bring more immediate benefits. (theconversation.com)
Their medical clinic, running a War on Poverty program called Early Periodic Screening and diagnostic testing, brought in, screened, and treated a higher percentage of eligible poor children than any federally funded pediatric clinic in the country. (therealnews.com)
However, this figure is the increase in the number of children in absolute poverty before housing costs are deducted from income, and elsewhere in the report it is described as such . (fullfact.org)
The meet concludes with an agreement to establish a joint venture company 'Grameen-Danone' to supply cheap and highly nutritional yoghurt to poor children in rural Bangladesh. (grameen.com)
More troublingly, over 40 percent of children are born outside of marriage annually , putting them at a significantly greater risk of poverty. (thepublicdiscourse.com)
Although since the Estatuto da Criança e do Adolescente the destitution of the family power by allegation of poverty is no longer possible, still the poor continue to loose their children under the order of the State, only now under other allegations: abandon, negligence, mistreatments. (bvsalud.org)
1 in 5 American children live in poverty. (msnbc.com)
Taking away the full credit from children based on their parents' earnings would needlessly leave [them] in poverty… while doing virtually nothing to boost parental employment. (cbpp.org)

Growing up in relative poverty was in turn associated with low income and education in adulthood. (lu.se)

Most writers I know who've been really poor practice similar forms of self-censorship. (kottke.org)

Effective policies for poverty reduction call for an engagement with those whom they are intended to benefit. (ilo.org)
Poverty reduction targets must be set within a development process that recognizes and gives effect to the central role of work in people's lives and the role of decent work as the sustainable route out of poverty. (ilo.org)
FERDI organised a webinar on the reform of the Poverty Reduction and Growth Trust Fund (PRGT). (ferdi.fr)

This report by the Poverty Alliance and the Scottish Women's Budget Group shares the experiences of women in Scotland on low incomes affected by the cost-of-living crisis. (povertyalliance.org)
Through interviews and journals, a diverse group of women on low incomes shared deepening experiences of poverty and hardship including hunger and being cold. (povertyalliance.org)
and "not poor" persons have incomes of 200% of the poverty threshold or greater. (cdc.gov)

America is just one more capital gains tax cut away from winning the war on poverty! (salon.com)
Worse, it has discouraged the most important defenses against poverty in America-work and marriage. (thepublicdiscourse.com)

The current poverty line is represented by an income of $13,590 a year for an individual and $27,750 for a family of four. (blogbookmark.com)

Official poverty data is too pessimistic. (nationalinterest.org)
Both Early and Meyer-Sullivan use a more accurate inflation measure than the one used for adjusting the official poverty rate each year. (nationalinterest.org)
In sum, using somewhat different methods, Early and Meyer-Sullivan both show that the official poverty data is far too pessimistic. (nationalinterest.org)
The Official Poverty Measure, adopted in 1969 and derived by using a very basic meal budget from 1963 times three, estimates whether or not people can afford essentials. (deseret.com)

In 1983, Muhammad Yunus established Grameen, a bank devoted to providing the poorest of Bangladesh with miniscule loans. (isbn.nu)
In this book Yunus sets out to answer the question: 'How to end poverty in our lifetime and create a just society for all? (grameen.com)
Yunus, the pioneer of microcredit and founder of Grameen Bank that has helped thousands of families in Bangladesh escape from poverty, finds a possible solution in a new business model named "social business" which he defines as a non-loss, non-dividend based business and one which is cause-driven rather than profit-driven, and one with the potential to act as a agent of change. (grameen.com)

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)
Tobacco control can protect health, reduce poverty and promote development. (who.int)

It has been brought to our attention that the Prime Minister has previously criticised the use of relative low income to measure poverty. (fullfact.org)
Many policy wonks and academics are talking about how best to measure poverty. (deseret.com)

the fact is that there are 600,000 fewer people in relative poverty than there were at the election. (fullfact.org)
Ms. Ellman asked about absolute poverty, but Mr. Cameron replied with a relative poverty figure. (fullfact.org)
From 2009/10 to 2012/13, the number of people in relative poverty before housing costs fell by 700,000 according to publicly available data. (fullfact.org)
From 2010/11 (the period Ms. Ellman was measuring over), the number of people in relative poverty before housing costs is down 100,000. (fullfact.org)
Growing up in relative poverty was in turn associated. (lu.se)

After epidemic cholera emerged in Haiti in October 2010, the disease spread rapidly in a country devastated by an earthquake earlier that year, in a population with a high proportion of infant deaths, poor nutrition, and frequent infectious diseases such as HIV infection, tuberculosis, and malaria. (cdc.gov)

Sustainable development means tackling poverty and inequality agendas and recognizing their interconnections. (ilo.org)
While it cannot solve human misery, it may actually exacerbate poverty, diseases, pollution and inequality. (grameen.com)

There is no consensus among policymakers, nor economists, on how to count the poor, nor on what really helps the poor. (asianage.com)
I tend to think of poverty as an abstraction - real and painful to those who suffer from it, but still something that can be measured by economists and sociologists according to the arcane standards of their profession. (famvin.org)
Based at leading universities around the world, our experts are economists who use randomized evaluations to answer critical questions in the fight against poverty. (povertyactionlab.org)
For many economists, Thailand might not be poor. (thaiguider.com)

The severity of their impact is disproportionately borne by the poor, and it puts them at a further disadvantage. (indiatogether.org)

If those things are accessible, then people can lift themselves out of the poverty trap, and if people can read and write, have full bellies, and aren't suffering from illness, they are much more likely to achieve their goals and become successful on their own. (orantcharitiesafrica.org)

Both the persistence and intensity of childhood poverty mattered, and so did the age during which poverty was experienced. (lu.se)

Iceland points to growing residential separation and isolation of the poor from the rest of American society in metropolitan areas, as well as an overall increase in poverty since the early 2000s as the biggest factors driving this rise. (zmescience.com)
These include isolation, poverty, and a poor distribution of health care resources. (cdc.gov)

I can point to the success of Trump and the Brexit vote (based on the BBC report) both of which appear to have had success on the grounds that those in poverty tend to be the ones who voted for Trump or for Brexit. (ship-of-fools.com)

Poverty on its own is really bad news, but concentrated poverty makes things a lot worse for everyone - it's a cascading effect of ever-less money available in the community, meaning health services, educational services, and other civic institutions work with reduced efficiency or grind down altogether. (zmescience.com)

Childhood poverty increases the likelihood of being poor as an adult. (lu.se)
article{b36cd46e-9f1e-47c7-ab50-44d6bdea62da, abstract = {{Childhood poverty increases the likelihood of being poor as an adult. (lu.se)

The number of extremely poor Nigerians has risen to 91.6 million, according to the World Poverty Clock. (punchng.com)
Poverty has risen dramatically in the New York Jewish community since the previous study in 2002, according to UJA-Federation of New York's "Jewish Community Study of New York: 2011 Special Report on Poverty", released this week. (ynetnews.com)

I would not say I am devoted to writing, with my poverty a consequence of that devotion. (kottke.org)
The resulting consequence for our region is poverty, poor education, lack of assets to finance credit and other negative indicators of underdevelopment. (concernednigerians.com)

It can also break the cycle of poverty, contribute to ending hunger, promote sustainable agriculture and economic growth, and combat climate change. (who.int)

When we blame "concentrated poverty" for the diminished quality of life in minority neighborhoods, we are confusing that which creates poverty (namely racist policies and practices) and the conditions created by it. (shelterforce.org)
There could be a certain percentage of the population in a country that is poor, but what the concentration of poverty looks at is to what extent are they concentrated in relatively few neighborhoods," he said. (zmescience.com)

is much worse in) Families, where they conflict with Poverty. (cdc.gov)

What would a grassroots War on Poverty look like, a War on Poverty as envisioned by poor people in this country five decades ago? (therealnews.com)
But COVID-19 threatens to derail decades of historic progress - experts have made horrifying projections that an additional 50 million people could be pushed into poverty this year, while the UN warns the world is facing the worst food crisis in 50 years . (globalcitizen.org)
The two main defenses against poverty-work and marriage-have declined markedly in the past five decades. (thepublicdiscourse.com)

Nearly one-third of Ethiopia's population lives in poverty. (crosscatholic.org)
Less than 1% of Ethiopia's population identifies as Catholic - but your generosity extends the mercy of God and presents a powerful witness to the poor. (crosscatholic.org)
Only half of the Haitian population has access to health care because of poverty and a shortage of health care professionals (1 physician and 1.8 nurses per 10,000 population), and only one fourth of seriously ill persons are taken to a health facility ( 14 ). (cdc.gov)

This, again, is the blame-the-poor argument that the right has made forever and that the Republican Party has enthusiastically adopted since Reagan. (salon.com)
We Know Whose Fault Poverty Is-So Why Do Our Terms Blame the Poor? (shelterforce.org)
But this is a dangerous conceptual trend, because it validates the idea that wealth and power go hand in hand and that poverty, not an array of structural problems, is to blame for the disadvantages of being poor. (shelterforce.org)
I think a more important question is why it seems so important to falsely blame the poor for the rise of Trump. (ship-of-fools.com)

Working poverty has continued to decrease, but at a slower pace than before the crisis. (ilo.org)
And the current crisis could be that shock that pushes them into poverty. (kcl.ac.uk)
The coronavirus crisis is exacerbating in-work poverty in the EU and a powerful raft of labour market and welfare measures is needed for an adequate response. (eapn.eu)

Is there a magic bullet to resolve the structural issues that condemn millions to poverty? (asianage.com)
This is because millions of people live just above poverty. (kcl.ac.uk)
Millions of people live in a precarious position one shock away from poverty. (kcl.ac.uk)
Poverty in Britain Why are millions of Brits so broke? (doovi.com)

The poverty measure clearly shows that the rate of self-sufficiency has remained virtually unchanged since the beginning of the War on Poverty. (thepublicdiscourse.com)

He insisted that anyone who has "felt any taste of this, tasted this lack of respect, tasted this lack of opportunity, tasted being poor, tasted of what it feels like, understands what you're doing. (ncronline.org)

Diseases9

Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment37

Psychiatry and Psychology21

Phenomena and Processes11

Disciplines and Occupations8

Anthropology, Education, Sociology and Social Phenomena55

Technology, Industry, Agriculture6

Humanities7

Information Science11

Named Groups19

Health Care129

Geographicals39

World's9

Households17

People living in4

Child poverty10

Eradicate3

Causes of poverty8

Alleviation2

Living in extreme poverty3

Persistence of poverty1

Extreme poverty11

INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH ON POVERTY1

Educational attainment1

Country's3

Alleviate poverty1

20231

Eradication2

America's3

20201

Thresholds2

Federal poverty3

Global poverty9

20196

Africa1

Developing countries1

Americans6

Outcomes4

20222

Experts on Poverty1

Families out of poverty3

20301

Pandemic2

Progress against poverty2

High-poverty4

Census5

Food stamps1

Impacts1

Anti-poverty2

Children11

Adulthood1

Practice1

Reduction3

Incomes3

America2

Current poverty1

Official poverty4

Yunus3

Reduce poverty2

Measure poverty2

Relative poverty5

Proportion1

Inequality2

Economists4

Severity1

Trap1

Intensity1

Isolation2

Tend1

Altogether1

Likelihood2

Risen2

Consequence2

Hunger1

Neighborhoods2

Worse1

Decades3

Population3

Blame4

Crisis3

Millions4

Virtually1

Lack1