Listed here are newly-available resources which should be useful for students and faculty in Washington and Lee University's Shepherd Program for the Interdisciplinary Study of Poverty and Human Capability.
A more complete list of resources is available here.
If you have questions or comments about this blog, please contact Dick Grefe.
- Income, Poverty and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2008
- Low-Income Women's Experiences With Food Programs, Food Spending, and Food-Related Hardships: Evidence From Qualitative Data
- Social and Emotional Development in Early Childhood: What Every Policymaker Should Know
- Suburban Poverty and the Health Care Safety Net
- Expenditures on Children by Families, 2008
- Access to Affordable and Nutritious Food--Measuring and Understanding Food Deserts and Their Consequences
- Rockbridge Poverty Assessment 2008
- Measuring Poverty in the United States
- Employment Characteristics of Families
- The Current Economic and Financial Crisis: A Gender Perspective
- The Fiscal Effects of Investing in High-Quality Preschool Programs
- Library Subscriptions Cuts
- Profile of the Working Poor, 2007
- Characteristics of Minimum Wage Workers: 2008
- Poverty Research Guides
- Welfare-to-Work Program Benefits and Costs: A Synthesis of Research
- "Changes in U.S. Family Finances from 2004 to 2007"
- Double Jeopardy; What the Climate Crisis Means for the Poor
- 2009 Poverty Guidelines
- Volunteering in the United States, 2008
- Measure of America: American Human Development Report, 2008-09
- Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates (SAIPE): 2006 and 2007
- Household Food Security in the United States, 2007
- Enduring Challenge of Concentrated Poverty in America
- Small Area Health Insurance Estimates
- America’s Four Middle Classes
- Getting Ahead or Losing Ground: Economic Mobility in America
- "New" Library Web Site
- Food Security Assessment, 2007
- Encyclopedia Of Social Work
- Rich And Poor In America: A Reference Handbook
- Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab
- "Rising Food Prices, Poverty, and the Doha Round"
- Participation of Mothers in Government Assistance Programs: 2004
- Statistical Handbook On The Social Safety Net
- Annual Homeless Assessment Report to Congress
- Income Inequality, Income Mobility, and Economic Policy: U.S. Trends in the 1980s and 1990s
- Resource List for State Anti-Poverty Strategies
- onPoverty.org
- "Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Medical and Dental Health, Access to Care, and Use of Services in U.S. Children"
- Census Atlas of the United States
- Volunteering in the United States, 2007
- Census Bureau Poverty Estimates, 2005
- Internship Series Online, 2008 Editions
- Statistical Abstract of the United States, 2008
- International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences
- Household Food Security in the United States, 2006
- Experiences That Matter: Enhancing Student Learning and Success
- Measuring Human Well-being: Key Findings and Policy Lessons
- Circulating Reference and Bound Periodicals
- A Profile of the Working Poor, 2005
- Custodial Mothers and Fathers and Their Child Support, 2005
- New York Times Online
- Gender Equality, Poverty and Economic Growth
- Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States, 2006
- Internship Series Online Updated
- Annie Gets Colorful -- And Better
- Volunteering in America: 2007 City Trends and Rankings
- LexisNexis Academic Changes
- "What Keeps Poor People Poor"
- The High Price of Being Poor in Kentucky
- Changes in the Economic Resources of Low-Income Households with Children
- The Effects of Taxes and Transfers on Income and Poverty in the United States: 2005
- Food Spending in American Households, 2003-2004
- The State of Working America, 2006-2007
- Encyclopedia of World Poverty
- Annual Homeless Assessment Report to Congress
- Internship Series Online
- Child Poverty in Perspective: An Overview of Child Well-Being in Rich Countries
- Homelessness Counts
- Homelessness in American: Media Handbook
- USA.gov
- "Automatic" Annie Searches
- Statistical Abstract of the United States, 2007
- Hunger and Homelessness Survey, 2006
- Poverty and Civil War: What Policymakers Need to Know
- Estimates of Poverty and Income in 2004
- Effects of WIC and Food Stamp Program Participation on Child Outcomes
- Participation in Government Programs, 2001 Through 2003; Who Gets Assistance?
- The Cost of Living and the Geographic Distribution of Poverty
- The Economic Lives of the Poor
- Human Development Report, 2006
- Chicago Manual of Style Online
- New Statistical E-Books (W&L subscriptions)
- Academic OneFile
- Immigration and Child and Family Policy
- World Development Report, 2007
- New Books on Poverty
- Latin American Weekly Report
- Historical Statistics of the United States
- Oxford English Dictionary
- Poverty in America: A Handbook
- Internships Series Online
- Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States, 2005