New for Poverty Studies

U.S. Economic Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Available online.
"Food spending is one measure of household well-being. To assess that measure, USDA periodically publishes information on nationwide food expenditures, with data presented by selected demographic and socioeconomic characteristics... USDA tabulations are based on the most recent and comprehensive data available on at-home and away-from-home food spending by U.S. urban households."

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Economic Policy Institute / Cornell University.
Available in printed form in the library collection.   Excerpts, including tables, are available online.
Annual publication "sums up the problems and challenges facing American working families, presenting a wide variety of data on family incomes, taxes, wages, unemployment, wealth, and poverty — data that enables the book's authors to closely examine the impact of the economy on the living standards of the American people."

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Sage.
Available online.   (W&L subscription)
Published as a three-volume set in 2006, this work contains 800 signed articles on over 190 countries, on causes and concepts, on organizations, and other topics.
Links will be maintained in several locations in the library Web site, including here.

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U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
Available online.
Self-described by HUD as "the first time since 1984 that HUD has reported the number of homeless people in the United States. The Department used electronic person-based Homeless Management Information System (HMIS) data and locally implemented homeless counts to arrive at the number of sheltered and unsheltered homeless people and the characterisitcs of homeless people living in shelters."
A link will be maintained on this library Web page.

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