Characteristics of Poverty

Growing Disparities in Life Expectancy
Congressional Budget Office, April 17, 2008

"Conservative Protestants and Wealth: How Religion Perpetuates Asset Poverty”
Lisa A. Keister, Duke University, American Journal of Sociology , University of Chicago, March 2008

Child Poverty and Family Economic Hardship: 10 Important Questions
National Center for Children in Poverty

Children’s Stake in Social Security
Joni Lavery and Virginia P. Reno, National Academy of Social Insurance, February 2007

Has U.S. Income Inequality Really Increased?
Alan Reynolds, Cato Institute, January 2007

Persistent Poverty and Place: How Do Persistent Poverty and Poverty Demographics Vary Across the Rurual-Urband Continuum
Kathleen K. Miller, Mindy S. Crandall, and Bruce A. Weber, 2002

The New Poor: Regional Trends in Child Poverty Since 2000
Heather Koball and Ayana Douglas-Hall, August 2006

Income, Poverty and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2006
Carmen DeNavas-Walt, Bernadette D. Proctor, Jessica Smith, U.S. Census Bureau, August 2007

Poverty in America: A Threat to the Common Good
Catholic Charities USA

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