Policy Methods For Eliminating Child Labor
...comes an increase in wages, which may raise family incomes to a level at which there is no need to send children to work. Basu and Van warn that economists must study a particular country's economy thoroughly before advising this course of action. If there are any indications that the process they describe ...Unhealthy Lifestyles Not Primary Cause Of High Mortality Rates
...r example, compared with people with annual family incomes over $30,000, those with incomes of less than $10,000 were over three times as likely to die, and those with incomes between $10,000 ...Poor Heart Disease Patients Pay More For Medications, Get Less Preventative Care
...nterventions specific to cardiac patients with low incomes and limitededucation to improve their survival." ... on Medicaid,"Tung said. "They are living on fixed incomes of less than $800 a month and manyhave out-of-pocket medication costs of $100 to $150 a month. If it...Planning Researcher Finds Best Neighborhoods Aren't Always Best At Preventing Infant Mortality
...h on these neighborhoods, nor onthose where higher incomes and higher education rates mean lowinfant mortality, but on those neighborhoods beating the odds. "The good news is that there are more neighborhoods that arebeating the odds than those which, against expectations, haverelatively high infant death ...