By s.e. smith on 4 March, 2010
It’s a small news story which hasn’t been well reported, and I might have missed it except that I happened to stumble upon it in 2009 and then I started following it. Starting in 2007, 6 babies out of 20 born in an 18 month period in Kettleman City, California were born with cleft lips [...]
Posted in class issues, policy, poverty | Tagged cleft lip and palate, Kettleman City
By s.e. smith on 16 February, 2010
Note: This post is pretty specific to the United States, because that’s the area where I have the most experience, although some of what I say here may hold true for other areas of the world. I would LOVE for readers in other regions of the world to talk about financial planning issues for people [...]
Posted in life changes, policy, poverty | Tagged financial planning, investment schemes, savings
By s.e. smith on 9 February, 2010
It’s hard to get firm numbers on the percentage of Cambodia’s population which is living with disabilities. Part of the problem stems from the stigma which surrounds disability in Cambodia; people with disabilities are regarded with fear and mistrust. A simple action like trying to sell goods to stay alive becomes a challenge when other [...]
Posted in policy, poverty, social attitudes | Tagged amputees, cambodia, development, landmines, war injuries
By abby jean on 8 February, 2010
A recent study from Columbia University found that of all the health factors they measured, poverty had the greatest negative impact on health. The other factors they looked at included smoking, obesity, lack of health insurance, and binge drinking, all of which had a less significant impact on health outcomes than living in poverty. Poverty, [...]
Posted in class issues, disability activism, intersectionality, policy, politics, poverty, race
By abby jean on 21 January, 2010
Nobody knows how many people with disabilities there are in the world. In doing some basic research, I saw estimates ranging from 300 to 600 million. This is partly a definitional issue – it’s hard to get people to agree what “disabled” means – but mostly is because nobody has ever tried to figure it [...]
Posted in global, intersectionality, poverty | Tagged rwanda
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