Jennifer Warlick, Ph.D.

Readings

Spring 2008  PS 10000/20000  Introduction to Poverty Studies

The Validity of Telephone Polls

Recommended

• Cincotta, Howard. "Pollsters Take the Political Pulse of American Voters,"  Accessed on February 21, 2008, at http://www.america.gov/st/washfile-english/2007/November/20071113154038attocnich0.7833979.html
• Taylor, Humphrey.  "The Case for Publisihing (Some) Online Polls," The Polling Report, Vol. 23, No. 1 (Jan.15, 2007). Accessed on February 21, 2008 at http://harrisinteractive.com/news/newsletters/inthenews/The_Polling_Report_2007.pdf

Measuring Poverty

Required

• Citro, Constance and Michael, Robert (editors).  Measuring Poverty: A New Approach.  National Academy Press, Washington D.C., 1995
• Editorial. "A New Yardstick: Redrawing the lines on poverty." The Philadelphia Inquirer, 14 January, 2008.
• Kaufman, Leslie.  "Bloomberg Seeks New Way to Decide Who is Poor."  The New York Times, 30 December, 2007.

Recommended

• Chan, Sewell.  "Mollie Orshansky, Statistician, Dies at 91."  The New York Times, 17 April 2007

The Foreclosure Crisis

Required

• Diaz McConnell, Eileen; Nesbia, Ronald; and Williams, Richard.  "The Changing Face of Inequality in Home Mortgage Lending." Social Problems, 2005, Volume 52, Issue 2, pp.181-208
• Veiga, Alex.  "U.S. home foreclosures soar 79 percent in 2007."  Realtytrac.com, 29 January, 2008.

Recommended

• Wenske, Paul.  "Renters get caught in mortgage crunch." KansasCity.com, 27 January 2008.
• Gunter, David.  "Lure of fast cash leads to triple-digit interest loans." BonnerCountyDailyBee.com, 29 January, 2008.
• Harris, Sheryl. "Tax refund loans can be pricey."  SunHerald.com, 27 January, 2008.
• Rise and Fall of Subprime Mortgages. Dallas Federal Reserve Ban http://dallasfed.org/research/eclett/2007/el0711.html
• A Snapshot of the Subprime Market. Center for Responsible Lending  http://www.responsiblelending.org/pdfs/snapshot-of-the-subprime-market.pdf
• The Mortgage Crisis. United States Conference of Mayors  http://usmayors.org/metroeconomies/1107/report.pdf
• Cummins, H.J.  " Legislators seek to curtail 'payday lending' practices," Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune, February 23, 2008.
• Andrews, Edmund L. "A 'Moral Hazard' for a Housing Bailout: Sorting the Victims from those who Volunteered," New York Times, February 23, 2008.
• Barbassa, Juliana. "Report: Minorities Hit by Foreclosures," The Associated Press, Thursday, March 6, 2008; 6:55 AM

Oral Health

Recommended

• Oral Health Bibliography
• Urbina, Ian, "In Kentucky's Teeth, Toll of Poverty and Neglect," New York Times, December 24, 2007.
• Otto, Mary. "Dentist of the Back Roads: House Calls to Neediest Patients Bridge Health-Care Gap," Washington Post, Saturday, February 23, 2008.

Wal*Mart

Required

• Chambers, Susan, "Reviewing and Revising Wal-Mart's Benefits Strategy: Memorandum to the Board of Directors"
• Basker, Emek.  "The Causes and Consequences of Wal-Mart's Growth." Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol. 21, Number 3, Summer 2007, Pages 177-198

Recommended

• Barbaro Michael, "Wal-Mart: The New Washington," New York Times, Sunday, February 3, 2008.

Bankruptcy

Required

• Michelle J. White, "Bankruptcy and Credit Cards," Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol. 21, No. 4 (Fall 2007), pp. 175-199

Recommended

Politics of Poverty

Required

Recommended

• Madison Powers, "The Politics of Poverty and the Poverty of Politics," CQ Today Online News, January 30, 2008.
• Matthew Bigg, "Edwards Bid Shows Poverty Not Big Campaign Theme, " CQ Today Online News, January 30, 2008
• Matthew Bigg, "The Politics of Poverty and the Poverty of Ideas, " CQ Today Online News, January 30, 2008
• Michael Fletcher, "Bush's Poverty Talk is Now All but Silent: Aiding Poor was Brief Priority after Katrina, " Washingtonpost.com, July 20, 2006
• E.J. Dionne Jr, "If Democrats Want to Help the Poor, " Washingtonpost.com , May 4, 2007
• Peter S. Goodman, "From Welfare Shift in '96, a Reminder for Clinton," New York Times, April 11, 2008.

Health Care

Required

Recommended

• Pierceall, Ann.  "Working poor are target of program."  Whig.com, 29 January, 2008.

Eligibility for EITC

Recommended

• EITC Eligibility for Tax Year 2007
• Resident and Non-Resident Alien definitions
• Application for IRS Individual Taxpayer Indentification Number

Minimum Wage

Recommended

• Ryan, Jim T. "State releases analysis of minimum-wage hikes," Central Penn Business Journal, March 3, 2008
• Minimum Wage Advisory Board. Analysis of the Pennsylvania Minimum Wage Increases in 2007.  Department of Labor and Industry, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, March 2008 .

Working Poor

Recommended

• Santich, Kate. "Low-income workers lose ground, study says," OrlandoSentinel.com, March 5, 2008.

Body and Mind

Required

• Lende, Daniel, "Poverty Poisons the Brain," available at Daniel Lende's blog, Neuroanthropology 
• Krugman, Paul, "Poverty is Poison,"  New York Times, February 18, 2008
• Cookson, Clive, "Poverty mars formation of infant brains," Financial Times, February 16, 2008
• Shonkoff, Jack P., Apromising Opportunity for Developmental and Behavorial Pediatrics at the Interface of Neuroscience, Pshchology, and Social Policy: Remarks on Receiving the 2005 C. Anderson Aldrich Award," Pediatrics, Vol. 118, Number 5, Novemeber 2006: pp. 2187- 2191.

• Pear, Robert, "Gap in Life Expectancy Widens for Nation," New York Times, March 23, 2008.

Recommended

• National Scientific Council on the Developing Child, Perspectives: The Cradle of Prosperity. (2006). Retrieved April 25,2008 form http://www.developmentchild.net

Education

Required

• Kozol, Jonathan. Introduction. "The Shame of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America."  New York: Crown Publishers, 2005, Pages 1-12
• McKinsey & Company, Creating a World-Class Education System in Ohio, 2006.  Read the "Executive Summary."

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