Average neighborhood income may play a role in creating food deserts in cities of all sizes, according to a Kansas State University study.
Social Sciences
Feb 12, 2016
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A research group led by Keishiro Hara, Specially Appointed Associate Professor, Center for Environmental Innovation Design for Sustainability, Osaka University performed large-scale questionnaire surveys in Suita City, Osaka ...
Energy & Green Tech
Dec 2, 2015
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As the annual "season of giving" dawns, a new study finds that stark income inequity - a dramatically rising trend in the United States - makes the "haves" less generous toward others.
Social Sciences
Nov 24, 2015
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Since the end of the Great Recession in early 2010, the economy has rebounded, adding nearly 11.5 million jobs and increasing employment above pre-recession levels. In the last year alone, the nation generated more than one ...
Social Sciences
May 12, 2015
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Every hour of every day cell phones are generating data which transportation planners, real estate developers and investors use to help them to understand traffic flows, shopping patterns and population shifts.
Telecom
Jan 13, 2015
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With many regions of the country braced by an unrelenting cold snap, the problem of energy insecurity continues to go unreported despite its toll on the most vulnerable. In a new brief, researchers at Columbia University's ...
Energy & Green Tech
Feb 13, 2014
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New research by Loughborough University published today shows the number of households living on an inadequate income has increased by a fifth (900,000) in three years.
Social Sciences
Jan 27, 2014
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The median household income for Americans reached an all-time high in 2000, fell during the recession of 2001, and was only approaching its 2000 level in 2007 when the Great Recession struck. By 2011 it had fallen back to ...
Economics & Business
Aug 30, 2013
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While many American families lost their homes during the U.S. subprime mortgage crisis, the housing market crash also induced some of the decline in the stock market as investors sold equities and never went back, say University ...
Economics & Business
Aug 29, 2013
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Children from low-income families tend to do worse at school than their better-off peers. Now a new study of a large ethnically and socioeconomically diverse group of children from across the United States has identified ...
Social Sciences
Jul 2, 2013
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