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Item Are Good Jobs Disappearing? Third in the series, What the 1990 Census Says About Minnesota.(Center for Urban and Regional Affairs, University of Minnesota, 1995) Ahlburg, Dennis A.; Song, Yong-Nam; Leitz, ScottItem Characteristics of Poverty: Incidence, Change, and Correlates. Fifth in the series, What the 1990 Census Says About Minnesota.(Center for Urban and Regional Affairs, University of Minnesota, 1997) Ahlburg, Dennis A.Item Exploring Early Childhood Language Environments: A Comparison of Language Exposure, Use and Interaction in the Home and Child Care Settings(2016-07) Larson, AnneThe purpose of this study was to examine the home and child care language environments of young children (17 to 43 months of age) who are living in poverty. Participants included 38 children along with their primary caregivers and child care providers from 14 different classrooms across 5 child care centers. Each participant completed a standardized language assessment and two day-long recordings using Language ENvironment Analysis (LENA) to determine the number of adult words, conversational turns, and child vocalizations that occurred in the home and during child care. Data were analyzed with descriptive and inferential statistics. Results showed significant differences in child language environment between settings with the home setting providing higher levels of language input and use. Results are discussed in terms of early childhood policy and practice for children who are at-risk of having language delays due to environmental factors.Item Foreclosure Prevention(2009) Wipperfurth, Adam; Hawthorne Neighborhood CouncilItem Historical Assessment of Holland Community Housing.(1996) Paddock, SandraItem Homeless Youth: A Needs Assessment for the LIFE HOUSE Project.(Center for Community & Regional Research, College of Liberal Arts, University of Minnesota, Duluth., 1991) Ollenburger, Jane CItem Human Face of Poverty: Chicano-Latino Children in Minnesota.(St. Paul: Hispanic Advocacy and Community Empowerment Through Research (HACER). La Cara Humana de la Pobreza: los Ni?os Chicanos-Latinos en Minnesota., 1995) Compean, Mario C.Item Income and Poverty. First in the series, What the 1990 Census Says About Minnesota.(Center for Urban and Regional Affairs, University of Minnesota, 1995) Tichy, John; Craig, William J.Item Into the Fields: A Report on Migrant and Seasonal Farmworkers in Minnesota.(University Migrant Project, Center for Urban and Regional Affairs, University of Minnesota., 1995) Casillo-Morales, Lupe; Pergament, Shannon; Durkin, DebrahItem Making Sense of Poverty in Child Welfare: A Grounded Theory Informed Study of Public and Tribal Child Welfare Workers' Poverty Constructions, Perceptions of Causes, and Praxis(2013-07) Carlson, JulianaIn the United States, the system of child welfare acts as a powerful and complex structural agent in the lives of families, especially those living in poverty. According to the Fourth National Incidence Study of Child Abuse and Neglect, children living in poverty are three times as likely to be abused and about seven times more likely to be neglected (Sedlak et al., 2010). However, many scholars and activists have critiqued the system of child welfare for ignoring the interconnected issues of poverty (Lindsey, 2003; Pelton, 1989; Roberts, 1999), gender inequality (Mink, 1995; Roberts, 1995, 1999), and the racialization of the system (Roberts, 1995, 1999, 2002). Scholars argue that studying the perceptions of the causes of poverty is warranted because individuals' perceptions shape behavior toward poor people and actions related to poverty (Strier, 2008), yet research on child welfare workers' perceptions of the causes of poverty is lacking. This dissertation presents a grounded theory informed study, shaped by an intersectional analysis that explores how public and tribal child welfare workers think about poverty, by examining their construction of poverty, perceptions of its causes, and how workers translate these into their practice framework. From individual interviews with 30 public and tribal child welfare workers throughout Minnesota, a nascent theory developed that describes these workers making sense of poverty in child welfare, depicted in a theoretical model. Findings include that the main way workers defined poverty was "not meeting basic needs." Three of the causal explanations of poverty workers identified built on findings from prior perception of poverty studies: individual cause, structural/systemic cause, and luck, while a fourth main causal explanation rose from the data, which was family/generational cause. In addition, the workers in this study had more to say about what child welfare workers could not do to address poverty than what child welfare workers could do. The two main strategies workers stated that child welfare workers could take to address poverty were being "resource brokers" and having an advocacy perspective. Lastly, workers perceived their social location, specifically class, and somewhat their race and their gender, had an impact on how they thought about poverty. The implications of these findings include child welfare reforms that respond to the structural and internalized limitations workers experience when addressing poverty which extends to the frame of poverty as child welfare issue, and social work education and child welfare training that starts with the historical realities of the United States and situates how racial and gender inequality today continue because of the federal, state and local policies that supported race-based and gender-based discrimination, limiting the access to resources and assets that impacted the evolution of wealth in this country.Item Old Problems in New Times: Urban Strategies for the 1990s.(Center for Urban and Regional Affairs, University of Minnesota, 1991) Byrum, Oliver E.Item On house calls, healthcare, and hope: one student’s perspective(University of Minnesota, College of Pharmacy, 2014) Shelquist, Ryan; Greene, ElisaHealthcare providers spend years studying pathophysiology and therapeutics, often neglecting to consider the whole picture of influences on a person’s health. House calls are a beneficial tool in that they provide the opportunity for trainees to experience these concepts firsthand, often opening student eyes to suffering, poverty, and unexpectedly, hope. Exposure to this broader perspective may empower health care providers to see beyond the limitations of disease and medication, into deeper issues that affect patient health.Item Path of Urban Decline: The Twin Cities and Ten Other U.S. Metropolitan Areas. Second in the series, What the 1990 Census Says About Minnesota.(Center for Urban and Regional Affairs, University of Minnesota, 1995) Adams, John S.; Van Drasek, Barbara J.; Lambert, Laura J.Item The Perspectives on Health Care of Women Living Poverty(2020) Strehlke, KathleenToday, in the United States, women living in poverty are faced with many barriers to health care that affect their quality of life and life expectancy. Between the richest 1% and poorest 1% of women in the U.S., there is a life expectancy gap of 10 years (Chetty et al., 2016). Very few studies have investigated the perceptions on health care of people living in poverty. A study that explored perspectives on accessing health care found that parents living in poverty often must choose between three ideals: acceptability, availability, and affordability (Angier et al., 2014). The current study involved group interviews over Zoom and an online Qualtrics survey with a sample of 10 women from a population of 100 adults at the Steve O’Neil Apartments in Duluth, Minnesota. Guided by the Health Belief Model developed by Hochbaum, Kegels, and Rosenstock, this study explores perceptions of health care barriers, quality of health care, and health literacy among women living in poverty. Health care services were, in general, acceptable, available, and affordable with the exception of two components. Diagnostic tests and dental care services were often not available or affordable for participants. A small portion of participants may have low health literacy which indicates they need assistance with reading, talking about, and understanding health information. The combination of low health literacy and low access to diagnostic tests and dental services could contribute to poor health outcomes for people living in poverty in Duluth, Minnesota. This study contributes to data on the acceptability, affordability, and availability of health care for women living in poverty.Item Poor, Not Poor: The Politics of Measuring Poverty(Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, 2009-05-13) Babbitt, RachelPoverty identifies people with limited resources. It is as important to measure poverty as to identify the populations that are poor and how poverty programs address the issue. The history of poverty and the political motivations behind the measurement all relate to how poverty is addressed. Poverty measurements were created in the 1960s from information collected in 1955 and have been altered only for inflation since then. There have been several alternative measurements that advocacy groups have suggested to replace the current measure. This analysis looks at the issues surrounding what poverty means and how this definition impacts measurement. Alternative measurements are also analyzed and then applied to the perspective of how alternative poverty measurements could affect TANF cash assistance. This analysis will look at how politics plays a role in the creation and selection of poverty measurements. The definition of poverty and methods of measurement are all impacted by these political values, and thus the policy process is impacted by these values.Item Profiles of the Twin Cities Poor. Report One. An Overview: The Twin Cities Poor and Their Problems(1987) Craig, William J.; Westrum, Carol A.Item Profiles of the Twin Cities Poor. Report Six. Working Poor(1987) Craig, William J.Item Profiles of the Twin Cities Poor. Report Three. The Twin Cities Poor: A Housing Crisis(1987) Hagedorn, Dulcie; Smith, Frederick W.