Socioeconomic
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These individuals often face limited access to education, healthcare, and employment opportunities, along with inadequate housing and nutrition.
What is Major Characteristics of people living in poverty?
Largest homeless city in the United States.
What is Skid Row (Los Angeles, California)?
What is Substance Abuse?
Formerly known as food stamps, provides funds to purchase groceries
What is Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)?
Individuals or families lack consistent access to enough food for an active, healthy life.
the tendency for a offender/ex-offender to recommit a crime.
What is recidivism?
Obesity, Inflammation, Asthma, Autoimmune diseases, Diabetes.
What are underlying health conditions?
Federal and State program that provides healthcare for low income families.
What is Medicaid?
Households with income less than the threshold amount.
What is Suburban Poverty?
caused worldwide lockdowns that left many people to seek government assistance and lose their main sources of income.
What is the COVID-19 Pandemic?
A person’s condition with regard to their psychological and emotional well-being.
What is mental health?
Provides subsidies for rent payments, a program assisting in affording safe housing.
What is Section 8 Housing Voucher Program?
Emergency shelters, section 8 housing, streets.
What is Homelessness?
Louisiana, caused extensive environmental damage, with many relying on the fishing industry to lose their source of income.
What is the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill?
The process by which offenders/ex-offenders are shaped and transformed by prison culture
What is Prisonization?
Offers financial assistance and support services, aims to help achieve full self-efficiency.
What is Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF)?
This socioeconomic phenomenon, characterized by the lack of access to basic necessities and resources in densely populated areas, remains a significant challenge in many cities worldwide.
What is Urban Poverty?
The official poverty rate in the United States in the 2022 Census. (hint, its a %)
What is 11.5%?
A person who has a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more "major life activities"
What is a disability?
Reduces amount of taxes owed, refundable tax credit for low income families.
What is the Earned Income Tax Credit?