Focus Questions

1. How does federal government define poverty?
2. In your own opinion, what does it mean for a person to be poor?
3. How are poverty and poor health intertwined?
4. What are some of the diseases associated with poverty?
5. What is the poverty rate on Long Island?
6. What socio-economic groups of population are more likely to be poor on Long Island?
7. In what type of housing poor people are more likely to live on Long Island?
How poor housing may impact one's health?
8. Is there poverty in your local community?
9. What do you think high school students and other community members can
do to combat poverty and to help poor people?

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E-Links for Focus Questions

1. How does federal government define poverty?

US Department of Health & Human Services:
http://aspe.hhs.gov/poverty/12poverty.shtml/#thresholds

2. In your own opinion, what does it mean for a person to be poor?

The Heritage Foundation:
http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2004/01/understanding-
poverty-in-america

NPR:
http://www.npr.org/programs/specials/poll/poverty/

United States Bureau of Labor Statistics:
http://www.bls.gov/mlr/1996/05/art1full.pdf

3. How are poverty and poor health intertwined?

The Fiscal Times:
http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/Articles/2010/06/26/Health-and-Class-A-New-Look-at-Poverty-and-Illness.aspx#page1

4. What are some of the diseases associated with poverty?

Initiative on Public-Private Partnerships for Health:
http://www.who.int/intellectualproperty/topics/ppp/en/CombatingDiseases-Abridged.pdf

Institute for International Medicine:
http://inmed.us/online_courses/international_medicine/diseases_poverty_2p.asp

Partner’s Healthcare:
http://www.asthma.partners.org/NewFiles/BoFAChapter15.html

Organic Connect:
http://organicconnectmag.com/wp/2010/09/the-link-between-poverty-obesity-and-diabetes/

5. What is the poverty rate on Long Island?

http://www.newsday.com/opinion/raise-poverty-level-on-long-island-to-reflect-regional-cost-of-living-1.3731636

http://longisland.newsday.com/templates/simpleDB/?pid=377

http://www.newsday.com/long-island/nassau/experts-say-li-rate-underestimates-level-of-poverty-1.1488067

http://www.newsday.com/long-island/officials-census-doesn-t-capture-reality-of-li-poverty-1.2322216

The Wall Street Journal:
http://blogs.wsj.com/metropolis/2010/06/02/suburban-poverty-welfare-ranks-expand-on-long-island/

US Census Bureau:
http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/36/36059.html

http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/36/36103.html

http://www.census.gov/prod/2011pubs/acsbr10-05.pdf

Children’s Defense Fund:
http://www.cdfny.org/about-us/long-island/

Long Island Press:
http://www.longislandpress.com/2011/09/13/census-us-poverty-rate-swells-to-nearly-1-in-6/

New York Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/08/opinion/sunday/struggling-in-the-suburbs.html

6. What socio-economic groups of population are more likely to be poor on Long Island?

http://www.longislandindex.org/School-Poverty-2012.947.0.html?&tx_felogin_pi1[forgot]=1

http://www.longislandindex.org/fileadmin/pdf/2009_Index_Files/Education.pdf

http://www.longislandindex.org/fileadmin/Reports_and_Maps/2012_Reports/LI%20Profile%202012.pdf

Erase Racism:
http://www.eraseracismny.org/storage/documents/education/IRP_Full_Report_with_Maps.pdf

Long Island Federation:
http://longislandfed.org/sites/longislandfed.org/files/censuspoverty.pdf

7. In what type of housing poor people are more likely to live on Long Island? 
How poor housing may impact one’s health?

Long Island Index:
http://www.longislandindex.org/fileadmin/user_upload/2008_Graphics/LongIslandLookstotheFuture.pdf

http://www.longislandindex.org/fileadmin/Reports_and_Maps/2012_Reports/LI%20Profile%202012.pdf

Care and Repair:
http://www.careandrepair-england-hhhl.org.uk/hhhlleaflet.pdf

8. Is there poverty in your local community?

http://www.longislandindex.org/fileadmin/Reports_and_Maps/2012_Reports/LI%20Profile%202012.pdf

Wall Street Journal:
http://blogs.wsj.com/metropolis/2010/06/02/suburban-poverty-welfare-ranks-expand-on-long-island/

9. What do you think high school students and other community members can
do to combat poverty and to help poor people?

Long Island Cares:
http://www.licares.org/LICpages/Favorite_Links.htm

Earth Columbia:
http://www.earth.columbia.edu/pages/endofpoverty/howtohelp

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Useful Websites to Explore

www.longislandindex.org
www.census.gov
www.who.int/en
www.eraseracismny.org/html/index.php
www.unfpa.org/public
www.irp.wisc.edu
www.spotlightonpoverty.org
www.unitedwayli.org

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