from unemployment, poverty, physical ill health, and mental illness. The largest proportion suffer from mental illness …. Multiple regression shows that mental illness is not highly correlated with poverty or unemployment, and that it contributes … more to explaining the presence of misery than is explained by either poverty or unemployment. This holds both with and …

from unemployment, poverty, physical ill health, and mental illness. The largest proportion suffer from mental illness …. Multiple regression shows that mental illness is not highly correlated with poverty or unemployment, and that it contributes … more to explaining the presence of misery than is explained by either poverty or unemployment. This holds both with and …

Despite unprecedented extensions of available unemployment insurance (UI) benefits during the "Great Recession" of 2007 … food stamps and other safety net programs. The share of families with income below the poverty line nearly doubles. These …

employing rather restrictive assumptions that guarantee the conclusion that an increase in the minimum wage reduces poverty. In … contemporaneous changes in poverty rates. For the period 1983-96, we find indication of a poverty-reducing effect of minimum wages …

as the labour market tightens. When the local unemployment rate is high, young adults from a disadvantaged background are …

as the labour market tightens. When the local unemployment rate is high, young adults from adisadvantaged background are …