Why Housing Affordability Needs To Be Reevaluated
Traditionally, academics and policymakers have determined whether an individual or family can afford to live somewhere by simply dividing their...
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Report: Home Health Aides Scraping By on Low Wages During Pandemic
On Equal Pay Day, the Rutgers Center for Women and Work highlights the growing number of home health aides in...
Hardship During the Great Recession Linked with Lasting Mental Health Declines
People who suffered a financial, housing-related, or job-related hardship as a result of the Great Recession were more likely to...
Why There Are Better Alternatives Than Punitive Policies Targeting Homeless People
Homelessness is a pressing problem in many U.S. cities. In response, many local governments have enacted controversial measures such as...
The History of Stereotyping Homelessness in Australia
The history of homelessness in Australia stems back to our nation's colonization by our British counterparts which moved Indigenous Australians...
Why Involving Entire Families in Child Protection Cases Can Improve the Lives of Endangered Children
By: Susan Meyers Chandler and Laurie Arial Tochiki Annually, about 435,000 children across the United States are taken away from...
What Americans Think about Poverty and How to Reduce It
The 50th anniversary of the War on Poverty attracted little attention in 2015, and the 20th anniversary of welfare reform...
Changing the Lens on Poverty Research
Using an innovative technique to measure poverty, a Georgia Institute of Technology economics professor has found that more older Americans...
Critical Analysis of the System Changes Needed in the Child Welfare System
The child welfare system coupled with the juvenile and criminal justice systems have ultimately created and perpetuated the systemic constraints...
9 Answers To Burning Questions About Social Security
Since you began working for the man (your company), you’ve forked over a portion of every paycheck to the man...
Study Shows Tax Return Delay Could Hurt Low-Income Families
Millions of low- and moderate-income Americans who claim certain tax credits will have to wait weeks longer than usual this...
Windows into a Life in Poverty and Lessons for Social Workers
Living in poverty is more than not having enough money to meet an arbitrary threshold. For many, a life in...
Talent Is Equally Distributed, But Opportunity Is Not
America’s recent legacy of trickle down economics has many implications, namely a wide division between the haves and the have-nots....
End Homelessness Through Eviction Prevention
Despite positive trends showing that homelessness has steadily decreased since 2007, nearly 600,000 people were homeless in the US at...
Journey through the Grief of Homelessness
Subprime loans, adjustable rate mortgages, unregulated equity lines of credit, mentally ill, physically and verbally abused, veterans, runaway children, drug...
Protest Movement Turned Into A Commitment to the City’s Homeless
In February 2011, thousands of concerned citizens protested with Wisconsin public employees against Governor Scott Walker and the Republican-led legislature...
Answering the Call: 5 Social Initiatives Helping to Fight Poverty in Kentucky
By Gabe Duverge The poverty rate in the United States is 14.8 percent, based on the latest data from the...
Is the Criminal Justice System A Crime In Itself
Patches are used to keep something that is worn out still working. For example, you can take a piece of...
Who Really Receives Food Stamps?
As with other groups, there is a stereotype of food stamp, or SNAP benefit, recipients. Many people believe that most...
More Than 500,000 Childless Adults to Lose SNAP Benefits This Year
Credit: Mohammad Ali Fakheri/Flickr Creative Commons Within the next year, between 500,000 and 1 million childless adults without disabilities will...
