Poverty is not evenly distributed across the American landscape. At the county level of aggregation, poverty is overwhelmingly a rural problem, with the most remote rural places at the greatest disadvantage.1 Although research has shown that “place matters” in poverty outcomes and policy impacts, most antipoverty policy in the U.S. is essentially place-blind, not considering how differences amo...

1486 investment, workfare, and “prisonfare” that have spawned the mounting social refuse strewn on the streets of the U.S. metropolis. Indeed, Duneier endorses the institutionalization of economic dispossession and social marginality as queer antipoverty policy when he proposes that “we will improve our well-being by making provisions for more persons, not fewer, to engage in informal entrepren...

Population aging, smoking, unhealthy diet and physical inactivity, in the context of globalization and unregulated urbanization, explain the high prevalences of hypertension, hypercholesterolemia and diabetes in the Americas, making cardiovascular diseases the main cause of death. Moreover, cardiovascular diseases and their risk factors disproportionately affect the poorest people, obstructing ...

Abstract The history of the neglected tropical disease movement is seen through lens authors who worked during last 4 decades in different roles and settings, from Western-based laboratories to clinical endemic countries critical policy World Health Organization (WHO). seek identify key players introduction word ‘neglected’ by late Kenneth Warren his Rockefeller Foundation–supported Great Negle...

The debate on health care reform in the United States, which culminated in the passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act and the signing of associated public laws in 2010, initiated a national discussion that is ongoing. Critiques and countercritiques of this legislation are ever present across the political spectrum. Because ...

We reassess the antipoverty effects of EITC using unique data linking CPS Annual Social and Economic Supplement to IRS for same individuals spanning years 2005-2016. compare benefits from standard simulators administrative payments find that significantly more actual flow childless tax units than predicted, those whose family income places them above official poverty thresholds. However, appear...

Objectives: Material hardship represents a potential mechanism by which poverty influences the mental health of mothers. This study examined the association between two forms of material hardship, diaper need and food insufficiency, and maternal depressive symptoms. Methods: Data were from a cross-sectional study of 296 urban, pregnant or parenting, low-income women. A linear regression model w...