children may be most at risk. In 2002, only 5 million people received cash welfare under TANF, while more than 30 million … allegations that programs “don’t work,” that programs are riddled with fraud, waste, and abuse, and that poverty alleviation is …

COVID-19? What is life for children from poor families? What has become of their reality? To understand the realities of … poor families and children during COVID-19, specifically in Ghana, this paper aims to analyse how COVID-19 has affected … children from poor families in Ghana and how welfare institutions can work to provide rapid help to such families. Design …

Purpose The aim of the paper is to ethnographically detail the poverty-shame nexus in contemporary Spain, and to … major contradictions that shed light on the complex relationships between poverty, shame, work and consumption in modern … societies. Research limitations/implications This paper analyses the sources of shame in the experience of poverty and downward …

/actual “poverty tours”, the article argues that while Antigua NGOs develop and host these poverty tours as a means of moving “hearts …

deaths. The homicide death count for children 0-9 years old at the state level over 1981-2002 is used as the dependent …

citizenship. Due to more generous public health insurance options, children with the lowest household incomes were not … significantly more likely to be uninsured than children with higher household incomes. The results highlight the importance of … public health insurance for children and confirm the need for the Affordable Care Act’s insurance expansion provisions.  …

over the past generation. Studies show quality preschools serving children from poor families lift early learning. Families … falters, growth in Latino child populations continues to climb. From 2005 to 2010, the number of Latino children under 18 …

Purpose – This study attempts to identify the rural‐urban migration patterns of children, young girls in particular … interventions on curbing the uncontrolled influx of children from the rural areas to urban centres and reducing their exposure to … triangulation of methods that comprised a survey of children aged 13‐18 exposed to commercial sexual exploitation, in …

children of depressive mothers and contains an intervention for children and for mothers. Design …‐oriented programme for young children designed to achieve this.  …