USA is of our own making. US taxpayer financed agricultural subsidies render Mexican farmers unable to compete. Poverty … been ineffective (Southern Poverty Law Center, 2009). Part of what is perceived to be an illegal immigration problem in the … fuels migration (Peace, 2009). If US taxpayers are financing agricultural subsidies that encourage immigration to the USA …

with previous studies, I find that the wage level of AFDC recipients in Missouri was too low to escape poverty, despite …

work of changing family needs. Considers the impact on the family of working conditions and family support measures and … investigates why work-family support programmes are not being effectively utilized. Makes recommendations for the introduction of … work-family policies. …

Much recent thinking on poverty and poverty reduction is ‘big’ in terms of its ideas, units of analysis, datasets … Bangladesh. Maymana and Mofizul’s story confirms much current thinking about persistent poverty in that country. [WP No. 22]. …

Child poverty matters directly because children constitute a large share of the population, and indirectly for future … individual and national well-being. Developed country measures of child poverty are dominated by income-poverty, although health … children. Moreover, a broader range of factors than material well-being matter for child development; family and community play …

children and from childhood into adulthood? In particular, how far do childhood experiences of poverty, family discruption, and …