Poverty alleviation is an important objective of European countries and of the United States. If these ‘rich' states … offer elaborate systems of income maintenance, why is there still a considerable amount of poverty? And why are anti-poverty …-country research papers on anti-poverty policy. Two former papers analyzed the effects of social transfers on both poverty levels and …

of American poverty outcomes and a more fruitful integration of the U.S. into comparative research. The augmentations … address three shortcomings in recent poverty research, including (1) severe measurement error in the data from which U ….S. poverty estimates are most often derived, (2) the conceptualizations of poverty adopted within U.S.-centric research, and (3 …

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 …

Why did the War on Poverty give way to the war on welfare? Many in the United States saw the welfare reforms of 1996 as … Chappell provides a fresh look at the national debate about poverty, welfare, and economic rights from the 1960s through the … of various persuasions, and poor women themselves …