both the highest child poverty rate (20 percent or more) and the widest economic distance from poor to rich children of any …All modern societies face the issue of how to best support its children when labor and capital markets fail to produce … to provide for both a minimally adequate level of economic and social support for families with children, and an equal …

poverty compared to their counterparts in other nations. Strategies to reduce the future Social Security deficit need to take … into account the way that program changes affect poverty and benefit adequacy as well as fiscal soundness. Other nations … offer approaches which would help us to achieve lower poverty rates while also providing fiscally responsible solutions to …

-income poverty rates and greater disposable income poverty rates than do children in native-born families by a factor of about 2 to 1 … (EU-SILC) allow estimates of the extent to which immigrant and nonimmigrant children are poor across a wide range of rich … nations. These data also allow estimates of the effects of social transfers that reduce poverty amongst all families with …

are primarily responsible for whether older women find themselves in poverty or not. Older men and women in countries with … relatively generous (or well targeted) social retirement and social transfer benefits have lower levels of poverty. A caveat of … likely to be in poverty than renters. As the value of homes and homeownership increase, housing will become an especially …

Great strides have been made in reducing poverty amongst the elderly in most rich countries over the past forty years …. But pensioner poverty has not been eradicated, especially in the English-speaking nations. Poverty rates amongst older …, poverty rates rise with both age and changes in living arrangements though living alone has a larger effect for women. Poverty …

children. We assess the net effects of existing policies on poverty and low income and wealth. While best practices may be … efforts in fighting elder poverty, and by the Australian superannuation retirement income system. However, the developing …

types of families with children. Measures of both poverty and inequality are presented and the comparative results are noted …While all nations value low poverty, high levels of economic self-reliance, and equality of opportunity for younger … self-reliance (earned incomes), family support, and government support to avoid poverty. This paper is designed to examine …

a low poverty rate. We compare the effectiveness of United States antipoverty policies to that of similar polices … learned about antipoverty policy by American voters and policymakers. The United States has one of the highest poverty rates … of all the countries participating in the LIS, whether poverty is measured using an absolute or a relative standard for …

deprivation. This entry addresses both the nature and causes of poverty from a sociological perspective and the way that … sociologists and social scientists have measured poverty in national and cross-national contexts. Sociologists tend to focus on … external (to the individual) explanations of poverty, such as those based on place, class, gender, economic power, and related …