Institute for Children, Poverty & Homelessness
Breast Cancer
CDC
Black women have the highest death rates of all racial and ethnic groups and are 40% more likely to die of breast cancer than white women.
Number of new HIV Infections among youth by sex and race/ethnicity—United States, 2010
CDC. Vital Signs: HIV Infection, Testing, and Risk Behaviors Among Youths – United States. MMWR 2012:61
HIV Among Youth in the US
CDC
About 50,000 people are infected with HIV each year, and 1 in 4 is 13 to 24 years old.
History Of Automatic Cost-Of-Living Adjustments: Social Security in US
SSA
The UK poverty line
www.cpag.org.uk
Fast Facts & Figures About Social Security, 2012
Did You Know That…
– SSA paid benefits to about 60.4 million people in 2011
– Social Security provided at least half the income for 65 percent of the aged beneficiaries in 2010
– Social Security benefits were awarded to about 5.6 million people in 2011
– Women accounted for 56 percent of adult Social Security beneficiaries in 2011
– The average age of disabled-worker beneficiaries was 53.0 in 2011
– Eighty-five percent of SSI recipients received payments because of disability or blindness in 2011
Big Political Divide on Proposals to Raise Taxes on Wealthy
Nearly Half Support Legalization of Marijuana
Prescription Painkiller Overdoses: Use and Abuse of Methadone as a Painkiller
CDC
Broad Concern about ‘Fiscal Cliff’ Consequences
EU Member states granted citizenship to more than 800 000 persons in 2010 – Issue number 45/2012
Teen Drinking and Driving: A Dangerous Mix
CDC
Key Welsh Economic Statistics – November 2012
wales.gov.uk
The unemployment rate in Wales was 8.2 per cent of the economically active population during July to September 2012, down from 9.3 per cent a year ago.
Wide and Growing Income Gaps in Most States
CBPP
Latinos Express Growing Confidence In Personal Finances, Nation’s Direction
Number of SSI Recipients, 1974–2011
SOURCE: Social Security Administration, Supplemental Security Record (Characteristic Record Extract format), 100 percent data.
Most Americans See China as a Competitor
Behind Gay Marriage Momentum, Regional Gaps Persist
Number of Americans with Mobile Connections to the Web on the Rise
Size of Income, 1962 and 2010
SSA
SOURCES: Data for 1962 are from Social Security Administration, The Aged Population of the United States: The 1963 Social Security Survey of the Aged (1967). Data for 2010 are Social Security Administration calculations from the March 2011 Annual Social and Economic Supplement to the Current Population Survey.
Risk of relative poverty of men and women by age, OECD average, 2008
The Atlantic
Poverty rate of the entire population = 100
Most in China See Growing Income Inequality
Statistics on NHS Stop Smoking Services: England, April 2012 to June 2012
Key Facts
• 176,945 people set a quit date through NHS Stop Smoking Services, a decrease of 17% (35,363) on the final figure for same period in 2011/12 (212,308), and an decrease of 7% (13,473) on the final figure for the same period in 2010/11 (190,418).
• At the 4 week follow-up 86,341 people had successfully quit (based on self-report), 49% of those setting a quit date. This is a decrease of 15% (15,214) on the final figure for the same period in 2011/12 (101,555), and also a decrease of 3% (3,074) on the final figure for the same period in 2010/11 (89,415).
Measuring National Well-being – Measuring children’s well-being
Figure 2: Percentage of children born with a low birth weight for selected OECD countries, 2011 International
CIS-2008 Major Findings Supplementary Tables: Duration of Maltreatment by Primary Substantiated Maltreatment
Canadian Incidence Study of Reported Child Abuse and Neglect-2008
Figure 1: Duration of maltreatment by primary category of substantiated maltreatment, including confirmed risk of future maltreatment, in Canada in 2008
Youth unemployment mapped
Guardian | Google
More Americans Worry about Financing Retirement
Soup Kitchens Caused the Great Depression
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Educational Distribution of Inmate Population, Men Ages Twenty to Thirty-Four, 1980 and 2008
Russell Sage Foundation
In-patients formally detained in hospitals under the Mental Health Act, 1983 – and patients subject to Supervised Community Treatment – Annual Figures, England 2011/12
Figure 5: Outcomes of Section 136 orders by year (where the place of safety was a hospital)
Social care network member survey results: infographic
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Guardian | S Oneill
Shares of aggregate income, by source, U.S. 2010
Social Security Administration
Estimated Gaps in Reading Achievement Between High-Low Income (90/10 Ratio) and Black-White Students, by Birth Year, 1940-Present
Asylum applicants and first instance decisions on asylum applications: second quarter 2012 – Issue number 12/2012
Eurostat
Daily Number: 87% – Pakistani Public Differs from Taliban on Education of Girls
Civilian Incarceration Rates, Men Ages Twenty to Thirty- Four, by Education, 1980 to 2008
Russell Sage
What’s Driving Projected Debt?
A Third of Young Adults Not Affiliated with a Religion
The Republican Rape Advisory Chart
TANF Block Grant Is Not a Model for Other Programs
Examining the Romney Budget Proposals
Couple families by presence of children in private households, 2011 counts, children (all ages), for Canada, provinces and territories
statcan.gc.ca
TABLE 1. Estimated number* and percentage of new diagnoses of HIV infection among Hispanics or Latinos† aged ≥13 years, by U.S. Census region§ and selected characteristics — 46 states and Puerto Rico, 2010
CDC
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Which Tax Cuts Should We Extend?
Downturn and Legacy of Bush Policies Drive Large Current Deficits
CBPP
Deficit Reduction, Phase One
The state’s anti-poverty effect
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Migration in a crisis
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Sources of Social Security revenues in 2011
SOURCE: 2012 Annual Report of the Board of Trustees of the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance and Disability Insurance
Trust Funds, Table II.B1.
NOTE: Totals do not necessarily equal the sum of rounded components.