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While many of us worry about our finances, a new and intense fear of poverty is becoming increasingly common among young ...
Natural disasters cost Pakistan an estimated 1-2 percent of its gross domestic product each year, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said this week, warning that ...
The study first purports to show that economic factors can explain only a third of the drop in child poverty between 1993 and 2019. Using statistical modeling, they estimate the change in child ...
Earlier this week, I spoke with a group of senior officials at the Department of Health and Human Services about strategies to reduce poverty in the United States. The conversation centered on ...
Professor Anna Gupta discusses the lack of focus on addressing poverty within children's social work, amid rising child ...
Boosting education and skills training as well as improving transport and strengthening social protection would help people ...
A team of researchers led by two University of Mississippi professors is working to unlock patterns and causes of the No. 1 killer of Mississippians: heart disease.
Think tank calls for HMRC and financial firms to deliver targeted nudges to boost self-employed pension saving, as only 20% ...
In an interview with The Michigan Daily about interconnected factors of poverty, Social Work student Nicole Portmann Munoz said this was one of the reasons why she had been interested in the event.
Poverty was considered insignificant when all factors were analyzed together vs. not significant in 50% of patients. “When we compare those (survival) curves with the overall population of the United ...
By one estimate, high-poverty schools in districts that were mostly remote experienced 50 percent more achievement loss than low-poverty ones during the 2020-21 school year alone.