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Dennis Swender
April 4, 2015 11:52 AM
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Addressing the intergenerational poverty concerns affecting hundreds of thousands doesn’t require waiting for the Legislature to initiate the massive endeavor.
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Dennis Swender
April 4, 2015 11:51 AM
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Generous welfare benefits actually make people more likely to want work, not less, according to the latest scientific research into the matter.
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Dennis Swender
April 4, 2015 11:50 AM
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Safe and secure housing is the best medicine to avoid costly interventions when it’s not available
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Dennis Swender
from Family-Centred Care Practice
April 4, 2015 11:47 AM
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A leading national advocate for the homeless said on Sunday, “You could drop me in any city or town of any size anywhere in the country, and I could find [people] that are homeless.”
Via Velvet Martin
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Dennis Swender
March 15, 2015 2:45 PM
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The same Hawaii tourist hot spot that recently declared a “war” on homelessness is trying out a peaceful approach to get people off the streets.
Under pressure from the tourism industry to curb Waikiki’s growing homeless populati...
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from What we're reading...
March 15, 2015 2:44 PM
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This is a big year for anyone interested in, or caught in the teeth of, poverty and extreme inequity. It’s the year of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), to be agreed by heads of state in New York in September.
Via Share The World's Resources
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Dennis Swender
March 15, 2015 2:43 PM
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This is an especially bad time to be born into a low-income family, according to data from a new report.
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Dennis Swender
March 15, 2015 2:40 PM
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Housing affordability is the most significant reason people lose their housing — and the primary barrier to regaining it.
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from Homelessness
February 26, 2015 6:57 PM
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An upcoming documentary reveals the important role schools and teachers play in keeping some teens off the streets.
Via Hunter Homeless Connect
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Dennis Swender
January 7, 2015 11:48 AM
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A Washington, D.C., resident describes the changes and privilege that have moved into her longtime neighborhood. Tags: neighborhood, gentrification, urban, place, culture, economic, Washington DC.
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Dennis Swender
from SANCTIONS
December 24, 2014 10:20 AM
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Childhood stress and poverty linked to problems regulating the emotions in adulthood, according to a new study.
Via Bennett Kathie
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December 24, 2014 10:19 AM
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Children who frequently ate fast food were less likely to excel in tests on math and science, according to a new study.
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Dennis Swender
December 24, 2014 10:07 AM
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ATLANTA—This neighborhood south of downtown is bleak, with empty parking lots fenced in by barbed wire, and skeletons of buildings covered in graffiti.
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Dennis Swender
from leapmind
April 4, 2015 11:51 AM
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CNN's John Sutter visited a town where residents get cut a check just for being alive. He says it's time for the U.S. to consider a "basic income" scheme.
Via LeapMind
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Dennis Swender
April 4, 2015 11:50 AM
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The governor's ambitious goal is modeled after a national strategy to end homelessness.
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Dennis Swender
April 4, 2015 11:48 AM
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Despite a decrease in overall homelessness from 2013 to 2014 by 2.3 percent, on a single night in January 2014, nearly 580,000 people were experiencing homelessness in the U.S.
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Dennis Swender
April 4, 2015 11:30 AM
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Children raised in poor households have clear differences in the physical structures of their brains compared to wealthier children, a new study finds.Brain ...
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Dennis Swender
March 15, 2015 2:44 PM
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The authors of the report “Moynihan’s Half Century,” about his views of racial inequality, and others respond to a column by Nicholas Kristof.
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Dennis Swender
March 15, 2015 2:43 PM
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Despite historical gains for women in terms of formal equality, structural issues – wage gap, superannuation gap, childcare, unpaid caring, inequitable income distribution – have not gone away.
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Dennis Swender
March 15, 2015 2:42 PM
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Niagara region professionals who deal with issues of poverty on Friday heard from colleagues, both from Western New York and other parts of the country, on how economic development intersects with the issues they deal with on a daily basis.
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Dennis Swender
March 15, 2015 2:38 PM
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Minorities are less likely to own a home, and get worse returns on the ones they do own.
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Dennis Swender
from Social Foraging
February 14, 2015 8:29 AM
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Functional accounts of hierarchy propose that hierarchy increases group coordination and reduces conflict. In contrast, dysfunctional accounts claim that hierarchy impairs performance by preventing low-ranking team members from voicing their potentially valuable perspectives and insights. The current research presents evidence for both the functional and dysfunctional accounts of hierarchy within the same dataset. Specifically, we offer empirical evidence that hierarchical cultural values affect the outcomes of teams in high-stakes environments through group processes. Experimental data from a sample of expert mountain climbers from 27 countries confirmed that climbers expect that a hierarchical culture leads to improved team coordination among climbing teams, but impaired psychological safety and information sharing compared with an egalitarian culture. An archival analysis of 30,625 Himalayan mountain climbers from 56 countries on 5,104 expeditions found that hierarchy both elevated and killed in the Himalayas: Expeditions from more hierarchical countries had more climbers reach the summit, but also more climbers die along the way. Importantly, we established the role of group processes by showing that these effects occurred only for group, but not solo, expeditions. These findings were robust to controlling for environmental factors, risk preferences, expedition-level characteristics, country-level characteristics, and other cultural values. Overall, this research demonstrates that endorsing cultural values related to hierarchy can simultaneously improve and undermine group performance.
Via Ashish Umre
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Dennis Swender
December 24, 2014 10:22 AM
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Pre-Christmas shock for the not-for-profit housing and homelessness sector.
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Dennis Swender
from leapmind
December 24, 2014 10:20 AM
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Science may never completely solve the problem of poverty, but it will not be because it did not try, writes Crispin Maslog.
Via LeapMind
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Dennis Swender
December 24, 2014 10:08 AM
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Earnings growth for the richest Americans has been outpacing the income growth of the lower and middle classes since the 1970s, according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities's analysis of data from the Congressional Budget Office.
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