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Poverty
Teacher Notes:  It was not easy for me teaching in the East New York section of Brooklyn for 32 years.

East New York has a population around 90,000. Over half the population lives below the poverty line and receives public assistance.

 National Institute on the Education of At-Risk Students (U.S. Dept. of Education)

CLASP: Center for Law and Social Policy (law and policy affecting the poor)

Center on Urban Poverty and Social Change

CROP: Comparative Research Programme on Poverty (International Social Science Council)

NCCP: National Center for Children in Poverty

National Center for Law and Economic Justice

InterAction: American Council for Voluntary International Action

CFFPP: Center on Fathers, Families, and Public Policy

 

Poverty (U.S. Census Bureau)
Current Population Survey (CPS): Poverty Definition, Thresholds and Guidelines, Decennial Census, Recent Poverty Measurement Research, Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) Small Area Estimates

Poverty Guidelines, Research, and Measurement (U.S. Dept. of Health & Human Services

Causes of Poverty (Global Issues)

Poor Law Union and Workhouse records

Institute on Metropolitan Opportunity
Institute for Research on Poverty

IRP: Institute on Race & Poverty

Joint Center for Poverty Research

Homelessness/U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)

National Center on Family Homelessness

National Coalition for the Homeless

National Alliance to End Homelessness

Visions of Homelessness Curriculum

Homeless Education Online Curriculum

The Hunger Site