Consequences of Poverty
Food Hardship: A Closer Look at Hunger (pdf)
Hunger in America 2010
James Mabli, Rhoda Cohen, Frank Potter and Zhanyun Zhao (Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.) Feeding America, February 2010
Food Hardship: A Closer Look at Hunger (pdf)
Rachel Cooper, Katie Vinopal and Jennifer Adach, Food Research and Action Center, January 2010
Families of the Recession: Unemployed Parents & Their Children
Phillip Lovell and Julia B. Isaacs, First Focus Campaign for Children, January 2010
Poverty and Child Maltreatment: Common Challenges and Solutions (PowerPoint)
Family Economic Success Learning Network Webinar, December 2009
Rx for Hunger: Affordable Housing
Elizabeth L. March, Stephanie Ettinger de Cuba, Annie Gayman, John Cook, Deborah Frank, Alan Meyers, JoHanna Flacks, Megan Sandel and Samantha Morton, Children's HealthWatch and Medical-Legal Partnership | Boston, December 2009
Household Food Security in the United States, 2008
Mark Nord, Margaret Andrews and Steven Carlson, Economic Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, November 2009
Economic Scarring: The Long-term Impacts of the Recession
John Irons, Economic Policy Institute, September 2009
The 2008 Annual Homeless Assessment Report to Congress (pdf)
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Office of Community Planning and Development, July 2009
Ending Childhood Hunger by 2015: The Essential Strategies for Achieving the President's Goal (pdf)
The Food Research and Action Center, July 2009
The Climate Gap: Inequalities in How Climate Change Hurts Americans & How to Close the Gap (pdf)
Rachel Morello Frosch, Manuel Pastor, Jim Sadd and Seth Shonkoff The Program for Environmental and Regional Equity, Center for Sustainable Cities, University of Southern California, May 2009
Turning Point: The Long Term Effects of Recession-Induced Child Poverty
Michael Linden, First Focus, May 2009
Trends in Child Health 1997-2006: Assessing Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Low Birthweight
Wilhelmina A. Leigh and Anna L. Wheatley, Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, April 2009
America’s Youngest Outcasts: State Report Card on Child HomelessnessNational Center on Family Homelessness, March 2009
Trends in Child Health 1997-2006: Assessing Hispanic-White Disparities
Wilhelmina A. Leigh and Anna L. Wheatley, Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, February 2009
Trends in Child Health 1997-2006: Assessing Black-White Disparities
Wilhelmina A. Leigh and Anna L. Wheatley, Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, January 2009
Number of Homeless Families Climbing Due to RecessionBarbara Sard,Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, January 2009
The Impact of the Financial Crisis on Older AmericansSandy Mackenzie, AARP Public Policy Institute, December 2008
The State of America's Children 2008Children's Defense Fund, December 2008
A Comparison of Household Food Security in Canada and the United StatesMark Nord and Heather Hopwood,USDA Economic Research Service, December 2008
The Economic Crisis Hits Home: The Unfolding Increase in Child and Youth Homelessness (pdf) Barbara Duffield,National Association for the Education of Homeless Children and Youth, andPhillip Lovell,First Focus, December 2008
The Cost of Doing Nothing Mark Linden. First Focus, December 2008
Hunger and Homelessness Survey: A Status Report on Hunger and Homelessness in America’s Cities, A 25-City Survey (pdf) United States Conference of Mayors, December 2008
Reading, Writing and Hungry: The consequences of food insecurity on children and on our nation’s economic success (pdf) Children’s Sentinel Nutrition Assessment Program and the Food Research and Action Center. Partnership for America ’s Economic Success, November 2008
Household Food Security in the United States, 2007
Mark Nord, Margaret Andrews, and Steven Carlson U.S. Department of Agriculture, November 2008
America’s Health Starts with Healthy Children: How Do States Compare?
Susan Egerter,Paula Braveman, Elsie Pamuk, Catherine Cubbin, Mercedes Dekker, VeronicaPedregon, Tabashir Sadegh-Nobari Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Commission to Build a Healthier America , October 2008
Neglected Infections of Poverty in the United States of America General Accounting Office, GAO-07-344, January 2007
POVERTY IN AMERICA: Economic Research Shows Adverse Impacts on Health Status and Other Social Conditions as well as the Economic Growth Rate Peter J. Hotez,The George Washington University, June 2008
The Economic Costs of Poverty in the United States: Subsequent Effects of Children Growing Up Poor Holzer, H. J., Whitmore Schanzenbach, D., Duncan, G. J., and Ludwig, J., Center for American Progress, January 2007
Using evidence that children growing up in poverty are more likely to have lowearnings as adults, more likely to engage in criminal activity, and have poorhealth, this report from the Center for American Progress makes the economiccost to society case for reducing childhood poverty.
From Poverty, Opportunity: Putting the Market to Work for Lower Income Families Matt Fellowes, Brookings Institution, July 2006
Lower-income households often pay more than middle- or high-income households for the samegoods and services. In this report, Matt Fellowes of Brookings describes howprivate and public leaders should work together to reduce the high consumercosts of poverty.
Fuel for Our Future: Impacts of Energy Insecurity on Children's Health, Nutrition and Learning
C-SNAP and Citizen's Energy Corporation, October 2007
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