http://www.physorg.com/ en-us Physorg.com internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. Barack Obama promised to halve poverty within ten years. His Republican opponent, John McCain, vowed to "make the eradication of poverty a top priority of the McCain Administration." Even in the current economic situation, in developed countries, this kind of rhetoric about cutting "poverty" is misleadingly outmoded -because it implicitly suggests that government income transfers can be the vehicle for achieving substantial reductions in poverty. http://www.physorg.com/news177874324.html Other Sciences Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:35:16 EST news177874324 An analysis of three and half decades of maize research in African farming communities finds big benefits. A multi-country study, in Agricultural Economics, reports the significant role international maize research plays in reducing poverty. It finds that since the mid-1990s, more than one million people per year have escaped poverty through the adoption of new maize varieties. http://www.physorg.com/news175951762.html Biology Wed, 28 Oct 2009 12:29:48 EST news175951762 The latest research from the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management explores the wide disparities in advanced high school course-taking (such as Advanced Placement courses) among race, poverty, and gender groups in Florida. http://www.physorg.com/news173987181.html Other Sciences Mon, 05 Oct 2009 19:00:02 EST news173987181 Biodiversity loss is undermining global development, leading scientists warn. The paper brings together a broad group of scientists and policy makers, including Natural History Museum plant expert Dr Sandra Knapp. http://www.physorg.com/news173544040.html Biology Wed, 30 Sep 2009 15:50:01 EST news173544040 Public opinion polls are good predictors of terrorist attacks, according to a study published Thursday which argues that terrorists do not act independently of their countrymen's attitudes. http://www.physorg.com/news172416619.html Other Sciences Thu, 17 Sep 2009 15:00:01 EST news172416619 For low income parents, finding high quality child care not only boosts the performance of their children in school, but actually combats the effects of poverty, according to a new study in the journal Child Development. http://www.physorg.com/news172216251.html Other Sciences Tue, 15 Sep 2009 07:30:01 EST news172216251 Income in the 13 western states didn't decline as steeply in 2008 as elsewhere in the country, but poverty went up more, according to a researcher at the West Coast Poverty Center at the University of Washington. http://www.physorg.com/news171825511.html Other Sciences Thu, 10 Sep 2009 19:20:04 EST news171825511 As the economy continues to unravel, a series of papers published today assess the effects of the crisis on children's health, education, and rights in East Asia and the Pacific. Crisis for Children, a special issue of the journal Global Social Policy, asserts investments can be made that will not only advance children's rights and break the cycle of poverty, but also safeguard countries' future economic growth and human development. http://www.physorg.com/news171694883.html Other Sciences Wed, 09 Sep 2009 06:22:13 EST news171694883 A new study suggests that a drop in colorectal cancer incidence seen nationwide has not occurred among people living in poorer communities, and suggests that barriers to health care may be to blame. The study appears online in the journal Cancer Causes and Control. http://www.physorg.com/news165085504.html Medicine & Health Thu, 25 Jun 2009 01:10:01 EST news165085504 (PhysOrg.com) -- The research of University of Notre Dame economist James X. Sullivan sheds light on how best to measure the well-being of the nation`s poorest families so policies can be crafted to help them. http://www.physorg.com/news163182515.html Other Sciences Tue, 02 Jun 2009 17:29:30 EST news163182515 Inequalities are rooted in many areas of the U.S. education system, and the current system's relationship with poverty has not improved, according to a Kansas State University researcher. http://www.physorg.com/news160754800.html Other Sciences Tue, 05 May 2009 15:07:04 EST news160754800 Solar energy has the potential to improve the living conditions of poor rural households in India as well as contribute to the country's future energy security, according to Professor Govindasamy Agoramoorthy from Tajen University, who is Tata-Sadguru Visiting Chair, and Dr. Minna Hsu from the National Sun Yat-sen University in Taiwan. Their study, looking at the benefits of solar lanterns on the livelihoods of village communities in Western India, as well as sustainable use of the environment, has just been published online in Springer's journal Human Ecology. http://www.physorg.com/news160056857.html Other Sciences Mon, 27 Apr 2009 13:14:44 EST news160056857 A new report, "Communities in Crisis," issued by the University of Minnesota Institute on Race and Poverty shows that the Twin Cities has some of the nation's worst racial disparities in mortgage lending. In the Twin Cities, those hardest hit by the subprime lending and foreclosure crisis have been communities of color. http://www.physorg.com/news153667561.html Other Sciences Thu, 12 Feb 2009 13:26:34 EST news153667561 Continuous poverty during toddler years can curb the height of children by the time they reach kindergarten, even in industrialized countries, according to new research from the Université de Montréal. Regardless of hereditary factors such as maternal height and education level, according to the finding published in the Journal of Epidemiology Community Health, children from poor families are more likely to be shorter than their peers. The study was authored by Zéphyre Ehounoux, a Master's student at the Université de Montréal's Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, and directed by Professors Maria-Victoria Zunzunegui, Louise Séguin, Lise Gauvin and researcher Béatrice Nikiema. http://www.physorg.com/news151755177.html Medicine & Health Wed, 21 Jan 2009 10:13:08 EST news151755177 More than 35 million people in Bangladesh, around a quarter of its population, face acute poverty and hunger. Dowry payments of more than 200 times the daily wage and costly medical expenses are major causes of this chronic poverty says research from the University of Bath. http://www.physorg.com/news144580704.html Other Sciences Thu, 30 Oct 2008 10:18:24 EST news144580704 In areas of extreme poverty it is often difficult to determine the standard of living. During her doctoral research in Uganda, Nicky Pouw developed a method to analyze relatively simple material and immaterial possessions that can serve, for example, as an early warning system for food shortages. http://www.physorg.com/news144417744.html Other Sciences Tue, 28 Oct 2008 13:02:24 EST news144417744 (PhysOrg.com) -- Hunting in a fast-moving pack is a high-risk strategy, according to research by Oxford University and Université Paris-Sud scientists. http://www.physorg.com/news140793256.html Biology Tue, 16 Sep 2008 14:14:16 EST news140793256 Families with disabled children are struggling to keep food on the table, a roof over their heads, and to pay for needed health and dental care. But according to a new study from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, these challenges are now falling on middle-income households and not just on poor families as previous research has found. http://www.physorg.com/news138282541.html Medicine & Health Mon, 18 Aug 2008 12:49:01 EST news138282541 A new study suggests that it may be easier for people living in small metropolitan areas to get out of poverty than it is for those living in large metro areas. The study by researchers at Ohio State University and Oklahoma State University found that despite an increase in the number of jobs created during the 1990s, many people living in large metro areas across the United States failed to find jobs. http://www.physorg.com/news137078336.html Other Sciences Mon, 04 Aug 2008 14:18:56 EST news137078336