Economic well-being of low-income single-mother families following welfare reform in the USA

While taking note of the growing anxiety, particularly on the part of the superpowers, over the spread of nuclear technology and of the frantic campaign (most of all on the part of the USA), through a combination of pressures and blandishments, to halt proliferation, the paper does not see much chance of the campaign succeeding so long as as it remains suspect because, among other reasons, of its being spearheaded by a power which is itself the greatest proliferator and one, too, which has not only got an enormous stockpile of nuclear weapons, but is constantly engaged in evolving ever more sophisticated (which means deadly) weapons. Nonproliferation, unless wedded to denuclearization, will continue to be viewed by non-nuclear states as unacceptably discriminatory and as a geopolitical confidence trick calculated to freeze the present hegemonistic global structure. Obviously, the first moves toward denuclearization have to be made by nuclear nations, but, above all, by the two superpowers. However, denuclearization will be illusory if a distinction is made between the military and the civilian uses of the atom. Denuclearization must, therefore, at some stage-now rather than later, when it might be too late-involve the total renunciation of nuclear power for whatever purpose and its substitution with other less centralized, less costly, and pollution-free sources of energy, such as sun, wind, water and biomass. In between, however, the ruling elites all the world over, but principally in its industrialized part, have to accept a concept of world order securely anchored to the values of peace, economic well-being of all, social and political justice, both within and between nations, and environmental quality. Recognising that such a world order cannot be erected at one go, the author suggests transition steps, none frighteningly radical in itself and each demonstrably feasible, although establishment circles, unable to move out of the narrow groove of conventional wisdom, may scoff at them as ‘romantic’ or ‘utopian’.

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MEASURING POVERTY CYCLES IN THE U.S. 1959–2013

Technological and Economic Development of Economy ◽

10.3846/tede.2018.5212 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 24 (4) ◽

pp. 1737-1754 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Marinko Škare ◽

Romina Pržiklas Družeta ◽

Damian Škare

Keyword(s):

Business Cycles ◽

Time Series Data ◽

Well Being ◽

Poverty Rate ◽

Series Data ◽

Poverty Dynamics ◽

The Usa ◽

Shed Light ◽

The U.S ◽

Economic Well Being

This paper aims to shed light on the nature of poverty as a dynamic process by examining poverty cycles, their magnitudes, and their asymmetry. The designated benchmark country is the USA due to the availability of time series data making comprehensive analyses possible. We use Harding and Pagan (2002) and the Cardinale and Taylor (2009) model to isolate poverty cycles in the U.S. during 1959–2013. Once isolated, we test the poverty cycles for duration dependency, and their synchronization with the U.S. business cycles observed over the same period. We find that poverty dynamics measured through poverty cycles differ for alternative poverty rate indicators. Another critical point is the magnitude of change in the poverty cycles. Prolonged and more volatile poverty cycles have a significant adverse impact on people and families facing them. That is particularly important for policymakers who should rethink poverty policy guidelines aimed at helping people with more volatile poverty cycles first. Our is the first study, to our knowledge, to isolate poverty cycles and focus on their nature. Poverty cycles should attract more attention from policymakers since they more accurately assess nations’ economic well-being than output (GDP).

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Meeting World Food Needs: Food Policy and Population Growth Among the Poorest of the Poor

Journal of the Northeastern Agricultural Economics Council ◽

10.1017/s0163548400003411 ◽

1982 ◽

Vol 11 (2) ◽

pp. 101-106

Author(s):

Wayne A. Schutjer ◽

C. Shannon Stokes

Keyword(s):

Low Income ◽

Food Production ◽

Food Policy ◽

Well Being ◽

Rural Populations ◽

World Food ◽

Minimum Level ◽

The Poor ◽

Food Needs ◽

Economic Well Being

The current and future world food problem is centered in low income nations and among low income segments of populations world wide. The thesis of this paper is that increases in income and food production in the poorer nations and among low income segments of rural populations elsewhere are likely to aggravate that problem in the first instance. It is after some minimum level of economic well being has been attained that further increases in income will result in reduced family size.

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