This article examines the relative effectiveness of the redistributive efforts of state and local governments. Specifically, we examine whether these efforts have affected both income inequality within a state and income inequality within racial groups as well as in urban/rural populations...

This paper focuses on the problem of analyzing how factors impact hunger across states when hunger is ill-defined. Hunger (which is a latent variable) is presumed to depend on macroeconomic, legislation, policy, and demographic variables. Based on the Bayesian method of a posterior odds ratios,...