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Income and Poverty in the United States: 2013

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The article was published on 2014-09-01 and is currently open access. It has received 1516 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Public health & Health promotion.

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Give a fish or teach fishing? Partisan affiliation of U.S. governors and the poverty status of immigrants

TL;DR: The authors investigated how governors' partisan affiliation affects the poverty status of immigrants to the U.S. and found that immigrants are more likely to get out of poverty in states with Democratic governors than those in states ruled by Republican governors.

Destined to Die Prematurely: An Examination of African American Life Expectancy

Jianna Howard
TL;DR: The purpose of this study is to analyze the historical underpinnings of racial disparities in health and how they ultimately impact life expectancy in addition to displaying that the healthism ideology is not basis for biological explanation.
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Understanding the Lives and Challenges of Women in Poverty after TANF.

TL;DR: This qualitative study explored the health and socioeconomic lives of 22 community-dwelling women in poverty in the years after they were terminated from the current work-based welfare program intended to move women from welfare to work and independence.
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Single Motherhood by Choice: Difficulties and Advantages

TL;DR: In this article, a qualitative phenomenological study focused on the advantages and difficulties encountered by 20 single mothers by choice (SMC) was conducted, and the results revealed that the difficulties SMCs face are similar to those faced by women who are single mothers due to life circumstances.
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Rapid Damage Assessment Following Natural Disasters through Information Integration

TL;DR: In this article, a rapid damage assessment is essential for practitioners to make timely and informed decisions following a disaster, and the authors aim to provide such an assessment through integrating multilayer data.
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Unstable inferences? An examination of complex survey sample design adjustments using the Current Population Survey for health services research.

TL;DR: Findings show that the standard error estimates derived from the public use CPS data perform poorly compared with the survey design-based estimatesderived from restricted internal data, and that the generalized variance parameters currently used by the U.S. Census Bureau in its ASEC reports and funding formula inputs perform erratically.