Barriers to Employment Among Low-Income Mothers in Rural United States Communities

Perceived Barriers for Employment in Tourism Industry among Rural Communities

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Rapid Changes in Household Composition among Low Income Mothers

Intergenerational Income Mobility among Daughters in the United States

The empirical literature on intergenerational income mobility in the United States has focused predominantly on sons. This paper partly redresses that imbalance by using data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics to investigate intergenerational mobility among daughters. We find that intergenerational transmission of income status is somewhat weaker for daughters than for sons, but is still q...

Cigarette smoking and food insecurity among low-income families in the United States, 2001.

PURPOSE To quantify the association between food insecurity and smoking among low-income families. DESIGN AND SETTING A retrospective study using data from the 2001 Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID), a longitudinal study of a representative sample of U.S. men, women, and children and the family units in which they reside. SUBJECTS Low-income families. MEASURES Family income was linked...

Child survival and health care among low-income African-American families in the United States.

This paper provides an assessment and analysis of the increasing rates of mortality among the children of low-income African-American families in the United States and the intensifying problem of improper health care that seems to have given rise to it. The paper first documents the nature and determinants of the problem and then addresses the issue of policy prescriptions for eradicating the ...