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Unlocking Sustainable Futures: Exploring Multidimensional Poverty in Belt & Road Initiative Countries Through Forest Plantation Perspectives Journal of Poverty Pub Date : 2024-04-21 Rizwan Akhtar, Jamal Hussain, Lingchao Li, Tran Cuong, Chenlu Tao
Forest plantation initiatives hold significant prospects to impact various dimensions of poverty, highlighting the crucial need to understand this link in the context of sustainable development. In...
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Undergraduates’ Educational Life and Academic Engagement in Southwest Universities in Nigeria: The Role of Gender and Perceived Poverty Journal of Poverty Pub Date : 2024-04-10 Mensah Prince Osiesi, Olajumoke Olayemi Salami, Adenike Lucia Aruleba, Olaitan Titilayo Akinola, Abiodun Adesope Fadiya, Atinuke Titilope Babalola, Muyiwa Sunday Ajimuse, Abidemi Olufemi Arogundade, Sunday Nnamdi Okocha
This study assessed the influence of gender and perceived poverty on undergraduates’ educational life and academic engagements in public universities in Ekiti State, Nigeria. 700 undergraduates per...
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Determinants of Household Extreme Poverty Among Female-Headed Households in Indonesia: Does Disability Matter? Journal of Poverty Pub Date : 2024-04-10 Lina Agustina Pujiwati, Zainal Fatoni, Nufi Alabshar, Dewi Harfina, Titik Munawaroh, Nanang Widaryoko
This paper investigates factors contributing to extreme poverty among female-headed households in Indonesia, with a specific focus on the impact of disabilities. Analyzing data from the 2021 Nation...
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Examining the Relationship Between Immigrant Residential Segregation and Access to Healthcare Journal of Poverty Pub Date : 2024-04-10 Sheida Ghahremani, Elham Hesari, Marjan Hesari, Navid Kamali Kalasour
As a result of recent immigration, the United States is becoming more racially and ethnically diverse. Since immigrants have added some new dimensions to the segregation picture within their ethnic...
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Poverty Stigma: Assessing the Surveillance of and Psychological Reframing by WIC Recipients Journal of Poverty Pub Date : 2024-04-09 Harmony A. Reppond
The current study examines the poverty stigma experienced by Women, Infants, and Children program recipients during grocery store transactions. Through in-person interviews with 32 WIC recipients i...
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The Influence of Individualism and Collectivism on Costa Rican Children, Adolescents and Young adults’ Decisions Facing Inequality in Resource Distribution Journal of Poverty Pub Date : 2024-04-09 Pablo Chaverri C, Itziar Fernández
We examined how induced cultural orientation (individualist or collectivist) influences decisions in resource distribution in middle childhood (N = 166, M age = 9.85, SD = 0.96, females = 51.5%), e...
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Will Self-Employment Set You Free from Poverty? Evidence from Two National Surveys from Economically Developed Countries Journal of Poverty Pub Date : 2024-04-09 Pankaj C. Patel, Marcus T. Wolfe
In this study, we test whether self-employment is associated with lower poverty and whether poor self-employed individuals alleviate the distance from the poverty line more so than individuals who ...
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Household Consumption Expenditure Determinants Across Poverty Subgroups in Sub-Sahara Africa: Evidence from the Ghanaian Living Standard Survey Journal of Poverty Pub Date : 2024-04-06 Lawrence Agyepong, Ametus Kuuwill, Jude Ndzifon Kimengsi, Kwabena Nkansah Darfor, Samuel Ampomah, Kulu Evans, Abel Gbogbolu, Gideon Nunana Attado, Ahiaklo Kofi Charles
This study uses data from the Ghana Living Standards Survey 2016/2017 to examine household consumption variations across different poverty subgroups. Non-poor households display significantly highe...
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Analyzing the Effects of Economic Determinants on Urban and Rural Energy Poverty: Evidence from 36 African Countries Journal of Poverty Pub Date : 2024-04-05 J. Venal, V. Moutinho, H.V. E de Oliveira, E. Ferreira
This study aimed to examine energy poverty’s determinants in Africa across 36 countries spanning 2000 to 2020. Using fractional regression models, it analyzed how factors such as economic growth, u...
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High Unemployment and Crime Rates Threaten Slum Dwellers in Egypt Journal of Poverty Pub Date : 2024-04-05 Suzan Abdel-Rahman
This study aimed to investigate the characteristics of three understudied slum areas in Egypt and quantify the determinants of unemployment among their residents, highlighting the prevalence of cri...
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Situating the Self within the Changing Societal Dynamics- a Perspective of the Nat in India Journal of Poverty Pub Date : 2024-04-03 M M Alam, Moksha Singh
India is home to a wide range of ethnic groups. Each group has unique characteristics. The Nat, for instance, is a nomadic tribe and is known for its specialized acrobatic and musical skills. The a...
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Bibliometric Analysis of Income Inequality Research Published in Top Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health Journals Journal of Poverty Pub Date : 2024-04-02 Waleed Sweileh
Utilizing the Scopus database, this interdisciplinary bibliometric study delved into the intricate relationship between income inequality and public health. A descriptive analysis of research artic...
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Climate Change, Governance Quality, and Poverty: Empirical Insights from Vietnam’s Provincial Level Journal of Poverty Pub Date : 2024-04-01 Cong Minh Huynh, Phan Truc Phuong Nguyen
This paper studies the impacts of governance quality with various dimensions on poverty under the context of climate change for a panel data set of 63 provinces in Vietnam over the period 2006–2021...
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Poverty Reduction and Determinants of Health Journal of Poverty Pub Date : 2024-01-13 Justin Denny, Brian Garvey, Lenie Nguyen, Abia Sebaka
Poverty is a contributor to poor health yet it can be challenging to break the cycle of poverty. We analyzed the characteristics of 2,981 CirclesUSA program participants. Of the 2,981 who were scre...
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Self-Employment Among the Poor: Does It Pay Off? Journal of Poverty Pub Date : 2024-01-08 Monica Fisher, Paul A. Lewin, Emily J. Wornell
We find that in a typical year, between 2010 and 2019, there were an estimated 887,778 self-employed poor people in the U.S. The self-employed poor (vs. poor wage/salary workers) are less likely to...
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Estimating Multidimensional Poverty: A New Methodological Approach Journal of Poverty Pub Date : 2024-01-06 Andualem Goshu Mekonnen
This paper proposes a new welfare-based multidimensional poverty index (WMPI). The proposed index introduced extent and severity parameters into the multidimensional poverty estimation. The method ...
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Changes in the Design for Korea’s Public Assistance and the Percentage of Female Recipients Journal of Poverty Pub Date : 2024-01-04 Hyejin Noh
As the obligatory provider standard was phased out in livelihood and housing benefits except medical benefits in 2017, this study examined how the gender gap of take-up rate changed over time. Firs...
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“Women are Able”: A Photovoice Study of Patriarchal Culture and Psychological Impact of Domestic Violence on Women in West Timor Journal of Poverty Pub Date : 2024-01-04 Maria Yuliana Dasilva, Shela C. Pello, Marylin Susanti Junias, Elenita Kristalia Seda, Indra Yohanes Kiling
Patriarchal culture still dominates in certain societal cultures and causes gender gaps and injustices that can affect the unequal treatment of men and women. Culture can be one of the triggering f...
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Compassion in Action? An Insight into Social Work Student’s Attitudes Toward Poverty in Kashmir Journal of Poverty Pub Date : 2024-01-04 Aarif Hussain, Afnan Tariq, Sarafraz Ahmad
A 38-item poverty attitude scale was used to investigate the attitude of social work graduate and post graduate students toward poverty and poor. The students had a mean age of 21.42 years old and ...
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Visual Self-Representations of Households Living in Situations of Economic Vulnerability Journal of Poverty Pub Date : 2023-09-27 Juan Carlos Revilla Castro, Marta Romero-Delgado
Negative social representations of poverty and people living in situations of economic difficulty are still highly prevalent in society. Poor people are commonly viewed as passive, lazy, morally de...
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Estimating Growth Semi-Elasticity of Poverty Reduction Using Two Comparable Household Survey Datasets Journal of Poverty Pub Date : 2023-09-25 Jude Okechukwu Chukwu
The study estimates poverty-growth semi-elasticity using two comparable household survey which excludes the 2019 survey since it is a base year survey, thus, not technically comparable with earlier...
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The Biggest Global Issues Facing Humankind: A Meta-Analysis of Poverty Alleviation and Poverty Eradication Journal of Poverty Pub Date : 2023-09-24 Md. Aminul Islam, Mohammed Muneerali Thottoli, ABM Abdullah, Tunku Salha Tunku Ahmad, Shafiqur Rahman
This study conducted a comprehensive literature review on global poverty alleviation and eradication. A structured literature review (SLR) was employed, collecting 955 articles from the Scopus data...
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An Examination of Food Insecurity within Connecticut’s Public University System Journal of Poverty Pub Date : 2023-09-21 Jennifer Anziano, Latasha Neal, Victoria A. Zigmont
This secondary analysis examined the differences in food security, knowledge of eligibility for food assistance programs, and access to food programming across students attending two- and four-year...
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Breaking Barriers to Employment: The Impact of Transitional Work on Economic Self-Sufficiency for Those Facing Obstacles to Work Journal of Poverty Pub Date : 2023-09-21 Elizabeth Glennie, Jennifer Laird, Yihua Hong
Many people face profound barriers to employment, such as former incarceration, mental illness, or homelessness. Without stable employment, people struggle to become economically self-sufficient. T...
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Photovoice Study of Parenting Young Children During Pandemic Journal of Poverty Pub Date : 2023-09-19 Indra Yohanes Kiling, Beatriks Novianti Bunga, Alda Asikin
Despite being at a lower risk of getting infected by the coronavirus, young children are still at a high risk of various threats that could hamper their development. During the pandemic, young chil...
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The Paradox of Child Poverty and Welfare Journal of Poverty Pub Date : 2023-09-18 Tirna Purkait
The United States confronts persistent child welfare issues rooted in poverty. The age-old debate vacillates between advocating personal responsibility and bolstering social safety nets. Current we...
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The Importance of Relationships: Interviews with Welfare Clients After Welfare Reform Journal of Poverty Pub Date : 2023-09-19 Kim Hoosier
With the implementation of welfare reform, welfare clients were faced with a ticking clock before they lost their cash assistance. During this time, welfare caseworkers worked closely with clients ...
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The Effects of School Food Assistance on Children’s Food Sufficiency During the COVID-19 Pandemic in the U.S Journal of Poverty Pub Date : 2023-09-18 Kolawole Ogundari
This study investigates the effects of school food assistance on children’s food sufficiency in the United States during the pandemic. We employed the Household Pulse Surveys (HPS) conducted by the...
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Community Prosperity/Poverty (Prospov) Maps: Development and Usefulness Journal of Poverty Pub Date : 2023-09-16 Danie Francois Toerien
The number of poor people and the total number of people in United States counties are strongly and non-linearly correlated, illustrated by power laws. The total number of people and the number of ...
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Health of Children in Low-Income Families: A Multiple Disadvantage Model Journal of Poverty Pub Date : 2023-09-16 Tyrone C. Cheng, Celia C. Lo
ABSTRACT This study investigated relationships between low-income children’s health and six factors: social disorganization, social structural, social relationship, parent health/mental health, parent substance use, and access to healthcare. A sample of 7,349 low-income children extracted from a national data set. Logistic regression results showed low-income children’s excellent or very good health
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Correction Journal of Poverty Pub Date : 2023-08-24
Published in Journal of Poverty (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Mental Health Assessment and Risk Characterization in Puerto Rico’s Homeless Post-Hurricane Maria Journal of Poverty Pub Date : 2023-07-26 Andy Vega, Yonatan Carl, Xiomara Molina-Perez, Gerardo Collazo-Malave, Kiara Ortiz-Camacho, Benjamin Gonzalez-Burgos, Sofia Martir-Gonzalez, Claudio Villalobos, Raul Ferrer-Burgos, Yaritza Inostroza-Nieves
ABSTRACT This study provides a mental health assessment of the homeless of Puerto Rico, compared to a non-homeless sample, in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria. Multi-stage sampling was used to assess risk of anxiety, depression, and PTSD, as well as provide a demographic profile of the homeless and non-homeless of Puerto Rico. The homeless, compared to non-homeless, had a significantly higher risk
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Contributions to Action Research for Transformation: Elderly-Teachers and Resistance Against the Systematic Territorial Dispossession Journal of Poverty Pub Date : 2023-07-18 Gabriela Estefania Duque Orozco, Paulina Elizabeth Oña Quillupangui, Marco Arturo Valladares Villagómez, Alberto Muipa Boyotai Enomenga
ABSTRACT This article examines how elderly people living in poverty established an active space for ancestral territorial management called Wiñenani-Pikenani Intergenerational School. 16 elders waorani of Ecuador acted as mentors of their kids. This school arises from critical social work to transfer important knowledge to live successfully in a biodiverse environment. The intergenerational learning
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Challenges in Remote ESL Learning with Under-Resourced Language Classrooms: An Indian Perspective During and After the Pandemic Journal of Poverty Pub Date : 2023-07-18 B. Mythiri, V. K. Karthika
ABSTRACT This study investigated the challenges encountered by English language educators during the pandemic who taught the school students in state-government run schools in Tamil Nadu, India. In particular, the language teachers encountered more difficulties as the learners had no exposure to the L2 other than what they experience in a traditional classroom setting. The potential government responses
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Attitudes of American High School Students Toward People Living in Poverty: A Quantitative Study and Analysis Journal of Poverty Pub Date : 2023-07-12 Kevin D. Blair, David Taylor, Marlo Brown
ABSTRACT This study examines the attitudes of a group (n = 536) of American High School students toward people living in poverty. Given the severity of poverty both globally and in the United States, coupled with the fact that today’s youth will no doubt inherit a world where poverty remains a persistent and serious problem, it was very surprising to find that this appears to be the first time American
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Should the U.S. Federal Government Expand Its Efforts to Help the Poor? Attitudes of Conservatives, Liberals, Republicans, and Democrats Journal of Poverty Pub Date : 2023-07-11 Steven T. Yen, Ernest M. Zampelli
ABSTRACT Even when controlling for big versus small government philosophies, this paper reports quantitatively significant cleavages in the probabilities of supporting increased federal antipoverty efforts that persist between conservatives and liberals, and Republicans and Democrats. However, predicted conditional probabilities show that support for increased welfare spending or federal responsibility
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Poverty, Inequality, and Incarceration: Estimates from State- and Prison-Level Data Journal of Poverty Pub Date : 2023-07-11 Marshall B. Sutton, P. Wesley Routon
ABSTRACT Quantitative evidence that poverty and economic inequality impact incarceration are presented. Three samples are examined, a panel of U.S. states and cross-sections of U.S. state and county prisons. In all three, incarceration is shown to rise as local poverty and/or inequality increase. Estimated impacts are found much stronger within relatively low-incarceration areas. Geographically, the
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Mind the Gap: The Effects of Eliminating the Gender Pay Gap on Income and Poverty Journal of Poverty Pub Date : 2023-07-10 Francisca Amaro, Amélia Bastos, João Cruz, Isabel Proença
ABSTRACT This paper investigates the effects of eliminating Gender Pay Gap on income and poverty. Drawing upon the European Statistics on Income and Living Conditions for Portugal, we use econometric tools to estimate the counterfactual earnings. The results obtained over the period under study (2014, 2017 and 2019) show that the average hourly income of women would increase by around 38%; the average
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The Resistance of the Ethnic Communities to the Business Onslaught in the Colombian Bajo Atrato, Seen from a Companion Journal of Poverty Pub Date : 2023-06-20 Abilio Peña Buendía
This article provides an account of the destruction of the social fabric of Afro-descendant, indigenous, peasant, and mestizo rural communities in Colombia from the perspective of a human rights wo...
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Land, Cultural Dispossession and Resistance: Afro-descendent and Indigenous Peoples in the Americas Journal of Poverty Pub Date : 2023-06-15 Stephen Nathan Haymes, Vladimir Nunez Camacho, Llewellyn J. Cornelius
This special double issue of the Journal of Poverty focuses on documenting the 21st-century consequences of the coloniality of power as it relates to, for example, extractivist and tourist industri...
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Linguistic Dispossession in Colombia: The Case of San Andres Island Journal of Poverty Pub Date : 2023-06-05 Deyanira S. Moya-Chaves
This article examines the “linguistic dispossession” of the creole-speaking Afrodescendent communities in the Archipelago Colombian island territory of Archipelago of San Andrés, Providencia, and S...
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(Re)signifying the Past of Violence: Emerging Memories and Voices at Colombia’s National Strike in 2021 Journal of Poverty Pub Date : 2023-05-19 Nathalia Lamprea Abril
The 2021 National Strike in Colombia laid bare social discontent exacerbated by structural inequalities in its society. It provided a much-needed platform for those historically excluded voices, in...
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Colonial Fetishism and Urban Uprooting. Technological Resistances in Bolivia Journal of Poverty Pub Date : 2023-05-18 Juan Ramos-Martín, María Reneé Barrientos-Garrido
This article analyses the technological resistance of different social, citizen, and community collectives of young Aymara people in the Bolivian cities of El Alto and La Paz facing structures of t...
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Road Fatalities and Extreme Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa: How Fatal Is It for the Breadwinners? Journal of Poverty Pub Date : 2023-04-22 Jules Médard Djomo Nana, Boniface Ngah Epo
ABSTRACT This paper analyzes the relationship between extreme poverty and road fatalities in sub-Saharan Africa using a panel of 42 countries over the period 1990–2014. We adopt the two-step system GMM method and a two-stage estimation framework to check for robustness of the relationship between road fatalities and extreme poverty. Our study finds a positive and significant relationship between deaths
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Political Party and Policy Choices: Explaining State Variation in SNAP Participation Journal of Poverty Pub Date : 2023-04-10 Mohamed Elkaramany, Mark Edwards
ABSTRACT Although the majority of studies on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) examine determinants of caseload size, we identify drivers of variation in SNAP participation rates between states, with a special focus on state-level political dynamics and policy implementation choices made by states. Using a panel regression analysis of state-specific administrative policies, as well
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The Impact of Governance on Poverty and Unemployment Control Before and After the Covid Outbreak in the United States Journal of Poverty Pub Date : 2023-02-25 Marzieh Ronaghi, Eric Scorsone
ABSTRACT Covid-19 presents many social and economic challenges and exacerbates existing ones. One of these challenges is global poverty. Prior to the epidemic, poverty affected the rural population traditionally. Global poverty can spread to urban areas now with COVID-19 outbreak. Poverty increased in the United States in 2020 as the coronavirus outbreak, affecting the economy and rising unemployment
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“No one dies on the eve”: feel-thinking knowledges and doings in confinement times Journal of Poverty Pub Date : 2023-02-22 Edizon F. Leon
The present work was woven amidst the COVID-19 pandemic and is part of the walk that was possible for me outside the confinement provoked by the mobility restrictions imposed by the virus. The high...
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Racialized and Gendered Impoverishment and Violence in Ceará, Brazil: Narratives of Surviving Mothers and Sisters of Murdered Black Women Journal of Poverty Pub Date : 2023-02-11 James Ferreira Moura, Daniele Jesus Negreiros, M. Brinton Lykes, José da Silva Oliveira Neto, Luiza Barbosa Lima, João Paulo Pereira Barros
ABSTRACT This research analyzes trajectories of rights violations at the intersections of impoverishment, racism and patriarchal violence against mothers and sisters of young Black women murdered in Ceará, a state in Northeastern Brazil. The persistence and protagonism of these women are documented through three interviews with and three field diaries of family members of murdered young women. The
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The Oregon Earned Income Credit’s Impact on Child Poverty Journal of Poverty Pub Date : 2023-02-09 Leanne S. Giordono, David W. Rothwell, Bruce A. Weber
ABSTRACT Building off the success of the federal earned income tax credit (EITC), states have developed earned income credits to supplement the incomes of the working poor. In 2016, a distinctive change to the Oregon Earned Income Credit (OEIC) targeted additional resources to families with young children. Using a unique data set and static estimates, we found that the OEIC yielded proportional decreases
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Using Poverty Simulations to Drive Student to Address Social Impediments in Health Care Journal of Poverty Pub Date : 2023-02-05 Jennifer Taylor
ABSTRACT Understanding poverty and related social determinants is an important component of health profession training so that students understand how to care for under-resourced communities. This study assessed the impact of poverty simulations on students’ self-efficacy to practice in vulnerable communities. We used a retrospective study to evaluate the influence of a poverty simulation students’
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Student Learning about Poverty and Interprofessional Practice from an Interprofessional Poverty Simulation: A Qualitative Analysis Journal of Poverty Pub Date : 2023-02-02 Barbara L. Wise, Katti J. Sneed, Sarah F. Farmer, Angela S. Bailey, Rhonda K. Oldham, Ruth A. Eby
ABSTRACT Six interprofessional (IP) poverty simulations were conducted at a mid-sized university from 2017 through 2019. Fifteen participants from five majors were interviewed to explore experiences, emotions, thoughts, attitudes, and applications to practice after the simulations. Themes related to poverty included empathy, thinking differently about poverty, demonstrating humility/respect, knowing/teaching
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Ethnic Difference at the Center of Land Struggles in the Americas: A Complex History of Marginalization and Multidimensional Challenges among the Garifuna in the Northern Honduras Journal of Poverty Pub Date : 2023-02-02 Kaitlyn Bellamy, Victoria Garcia, Saleh Ahmed, Adriana Archila
Across the world, natural resources play a critical role in shaping livelihoods among the ethnic and indigenous communities. This article highlights the struggles Garifuna in northern Honduras face...
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Working yet Poor: A Quantitative Analysis for the United States Journal of Poverty Pub Date : 2023-01-28 Monica Fisher, Jeffrey J. Reimer, Paul A. Lewin, Emily J. Wornell, Bruce A. Weber
This study uses Current Population Survey data and econometric techniques to examine whether working poor households improve their economic wellbeing by working more hours. For working households o...
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Factors Associated with Poverty among Refugees in the United States Journal of Poverty Pub Date : 2022-10-13 Mitra Naseh, Miriam Potocky, Shanna L. Burke, Paul H. Stuart, Fatma G. Huffman
In this paper, factors associated with poverty among refugees were explored using a nationally representative sample in the United States. Relying on the social exclusion theory,) a refugee integra...
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Low-income Roma Mothers Negotiating Mothering in the Context of Poverty Journal of Poverty Pub Date : 2022-10-04 Kateřina Čanigová, Adéla Souralová
This article focuses on low-income Roma mothers in the Czech Republic. Drawing upon long-term fieldwork and qualitative interviews with these mothers, we show how mothering is formed, negotiated, a...
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“I’ve Always Been Discounted, and I Don’t Feel Discounted Here”: A Mixed Methods Study of A Restorative Community Program for Previously Homeless Individuals Journal of Poverty Pub Date : 2022-10-01 Danielle Parrish, Aynsley Scheffert, Cathy Crouch
Community integration following the experience of chronic homelessness is a key principle of Housing First programming, yet it is scantily addressed or studied. Originally developed in New York, th...
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Poverty Among Youth-Headed Households in South Africa: Quo Vadis Journal of Poverty Pub Date : 2022-09-29 Phindile Mdluli-Maziya, Precious Mncayi, Kebitsamang Sere
In South Africa, youth (15–34 years) are the most vulnerable age group, assuming a large share of unemployment and NEET rates. This has raised concerns of their living standards, which have a great...
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Time to Change the Usual Response to College Students’ Food Insecurity Journal of Poverty Pub Date : 2022-09-29 Jacqueline Bergdahl, Tracey Steele, Sarah Twill
The pandemic exposed economic vulnerabilities in society. As businesses and college campuses shut down, lines at food pantries and other community food giveaways stretched for miles. College studen...
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Food Insecurity and Economic Hardship of College Students: Before and during the COVID-19 Pandemic Journal of Poverty Pub Date : 2022-09-29 Youngmi Kim, Jennifer Murphy
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought overwhelming concerns regarding food insecurity and economic impacts for young adults. This study examined food insecurity and economic hardship before and during ...
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Historical, Economic, and Political Dimensions of Environmental Racism Journal of Poverty Pub Date : 2022-09-27 Nadia Neimanas
Environmental racism has long plagued the United States and continues to do so as the effects of climate change worsen and grow. These effects have a broad impact on every aspect of life from physi...