Poverty Archives

07.31.2019 a map of a neighborhood with pink dots

Poverty and Pb in Philadelphia

Philadelphia’s communities with higher poverty rates correspond with higher levels of lead exposure, which can have detrimental health effects for children.

Fellow Oluwatobi Alliyu

07.18.2019 a graph of a number of people with blue bars

Mothers and Money

Relationships between mothers and their children are particularly vulnerable when family money is short, which can affect childhood development.

Fellow Oluwatobi Alliyu

04.05.2019 a shopping cart in a store

Wages and Waffles

Supermarkets' prices are more likely to be affected by the nation's economy, which is important in light of the push to increase the federal minimum wage.

Fellow Greg Kantor

03.20.2019 Graph showing income inequality between black and white males

Health Equity

Income Inequality Between Black and White Males

If uneven distribution of income is a key contributor of economic injustice, how do we replicate conditions to narrow gaps in income for Black men?

Fellow Jori Fortson

03.04.2019 Map of the US showing food insecurity at the county level

National Food Affordability: A County-Level Analysis

Food insecurity across the US is in relative decline, but pockets of particularly vulnerable Americans remain very food insecure.

Guest Authors Anne Cafer, Sujith Ramachandran, Georgianna Mann, Michelle Kaiser

02.07.2019 Graph comparing rural high/low poverty and urban high/low poverty trajectory over time

Health Equity

Rural Living and Dying

There is a widening gap in US rural and urban death rates. Researchers report that these changes are not sudden and have been happening since 1970.

Fellow Sampada Nandyala

12.11.2018 Map of Philadelphia showing percent of children under age 5 in poverty, by zip code, 2016

Childhood Poverty in Philadelphia

Childhood poverty is not distributed evenly either across the country or within cities. Nearly one-third of Philadelphia’s infants and toddlers live in poverty.

Fellow Chrissy Packtor

12.06.2018 Graph showing increase in very high pay and decrease in middle and low pay over time

High Pay Gets Higher, Low Pay Gets Lower

Middle-wage earners have not seen much of an increase in pay, and low-wage earners have almost exclusively seen drops in their pay over the decades.

Fellow Sampada Nandyala

09.21.2018 The letters A, B, C and a globe in a box

The Immigrant Paradox and School Success

Long-spell poverty is associated with lower academic performance, but research by Han et al. also found that children of immigrants were doing as well as, if not better than, children with native-born parents in certain areas like math.

Guest Author Wen-Jui Han

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