Poverty Archives

05.03.2021 envelope with eviction notice

Housing Policy & Health Equity During the Covid-19 Pandemic

Pandemic-related financial hardship has created an extreme eviction and housing crisis among low-income and predominantly minority communities already economically marginalized and experiencing high levels of Covid-19 infection and death.

Guest Authors Emily Benfer, Gregg Gonsalves, Danya Keene, David Vlahov

01.05.2021 a graph of the covid-19 virus

Social Distancing for All of Society

States must implement policies that enable lower-income residents to protect their communities from Covid-19.

Fellow Gray Babbs

12.09.2020 a woman smiling with a yellow background

Soni Gupta

Soni Gupta, Director of Neighborhoods and Housing at the Boston Foundation, highlights the relationship between health, medicine, and poverty.

Fellow Edward Alexander

12.07.2020 a book cover with a person sitting on a chair

Health Equity

Financial Health is Public Health

Michael Stein discusses health, medicine, and poverty and his new book, "BROKE: Patients Talk about Money with Their Doctor."

Editor Nicholas Diamond

09.17.2020 a man wearing a face mask on a hundred dollar bill

Health Equity

Wealth and Health

Future research should examine the various sources of wealth and wealth loss and their associations with populations health.

Guest Author Joseph Wolfe

08.26.2020 a group of raised fists

Health Equity

Labor Unions and Our Health

If unions indeed protect against deaths of despair across diverse communities, understanding how they do so remains an important question.

Fellow Edward Alexander

07.20.2020 a group of water bottles

In the Water

Children from low-income communities are vulnerable to the effects of not receiving adequate fluoride and are at higher risk of developing cavities.

Fellow Gray Babbs

06.05.2020 a group of small plastic houses

Housing for Child Health

In Chicago, chronic eviction and housing instability meant increased odds of an underweight baby or of an infant’s death.

Fellow Edward Alexander

08.28.2019 a graph of a graph of a child

Race, Place, and Health

While the practice of redlining is now illegal, the consequences of the resultant segregation are still felt today.

Fellow Oluwatobi Alliyu

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