scholarly journals Climate-Related Risks Faced by Low- and Moderate-Income Communities and Communities of Color: Survey Results

2021 ◽  
pp. 01-37
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Mattiuzzi ◽  
◽  
Eileen Hodge ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Community Development ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Western United States ◽  
Communities Of Color ◽  
Tribal Populations ◽  
Survey Results ◽  
Climate Shocks ◽  
Impacts Of Climate Change ◽  
Economic Well Being

The impacts of climate change are creating new risks and exacerbating existing risks for individuals, communities, and the economy. Climate shocks and stresses disproportionately impact groups that have traditionally faced higher barriers to participating in the economy than the general population, including low-income communities, communities of color, and Tribal populations. Our team fielded a survey targeting professionals in the western United States from a broad range of sectors whose work on community development‒related issues impacts the personal and economic well-being of low-income communities and communities of color. Over 250 respondents shared their perceptions of how climate-related risks may be affecting the communities they serve and their organizations’ work.

scholarly journals Climate-Related Risks Faced by Low- and Moderate-Income Communities and Communities of Color: Survey Results

2021 ◽  
pp. 01-37
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Mattiuzzi ◽  
◽  
Eileen Hodge ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Community Development ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Western United States ◽  
Communities Of Color ◽  
Tribal Populations ◽  
Survey Results ◽  
Climate Shocks ◽  
Impacts Of Climate Change ◽  
Economic Well Being

The impacts of climate change are creating new risks and exacerbating existing risks for individuals, communities, and the economy. Climate shocks and stresses disproportionately impact groups that have traditionally faced higher barriers to participating in the economy than the general population, including low-income communities, communities of color, and Tribal populations. Our team fielded a survey targeting professionals in the western United States from a broad range of sectors whose work on community development‒related issues impacts the personal and economic well-being of low-income communities and communities of color. Over 250 respondents shared their perceptions of how climate-related risks may be affecting the communities they serve and their organizations’ work.

Empowerment Programmes of Faith-Based Organisations (FBOs) and Socio-economic Well-being of Members in Yenagoa Community, Bayelsa State, Nigeria

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 192
Author(s):  
Jonathan E. Oghenekohwo ◽  
Young D. Tonunarigha
Keyword(s):  
Community Development ◽  
Capital Investment ◽  
Sampling Method ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Peace Building ◽  
Skills Acquisition ◽  
Faith Based ◽  
The Mean ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Economic Well Being

This is an investigation on the empowerment programmes of faith-based organizations (FBOs) and socio-economic well-being of members in Yenegoa Communities of Bayelsa. This study lay to rest the controversy surrounding FBOs, whether they are empowering members or exploiting them and the extent to which such organisations have met its goals especially that of capacity building, charity and giving. The survey research method was used for the study. From a population of 12,565 FBOs leaders and members in Yenegoa communities, a sample of 659 participants was selected through proportional random sampling method. Data were collected with a face and content validated self-structured instrument title: Faith-Based Organisations Empowerment Scales (FBOES), (r=0.88). Four research questions were raised and answered using the mean, standard deviation and multiple regression statistics analysis. Results showed that, faith-based organisations provided skills acquisition programmes for member’s empowerment. Majority of the FBOs were actively involved in the empowerment of youth, women and the most vulnerable members of the affiliates and even the host communities. Faith-based organisations derived its goals from the teaching on social capital investment elements of trust, cooperation, mutuality, compromise, reciprocity, courage, integrity, networking, mentoring, and communication for peace building and community development. It was concluded that faith-based organisations empowerment programmes had positive impacts on members’ social and economic well-being. In view of these findings, it was recommended that leaders of FBOs in the communities should moderate their lifestyles, emulate and enhance the example of service, humanness and sacrifice in their engagement.

scholarly journals Meeting World Food Needs: Food Policy and Population Growth Among the Poorest of the Poor

1982 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 101-106
Author(s):  
Wayne A. Schutjer ◽  
C. Shannon Stokes
Keyword(s):  
Low Income ◽  
Food Production ◽  
Food Policy ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Rural Populations ◽  
World Food ◽  
Minimum Level ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Food Needs ◽  
Economic Well Being

The current and future world food problem is centered in low income nations and among low income segments of populations world wide. The thesis of this paper is that increases in income and food production in the poorer nations and among low income segments of rural populations elsewhere are likely to aggravate that problem in the first instance. It is after some minimum level of economic well being has been attained that further increases in income will result in reduced family size.

Affirmatively Furthering Community Development

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edward G. Goetz
Keyword(s):  
Community Development ◽  
Affordable Housing ◽  
Low Income ◽  
The Political ◽  
Racial Justice ◽  
Disadvantaged Communities ◽  
Policy Alternative ◽  
Political Dynamics ◽  
Communities Of Color ◽  
Counter Argument

This chapter presents a counter-argument to the integration imperative. The chapter offers critiques of the integration argument and presents an argument in favour of affordable housing and community development in low-income communities of color. The chapter articulates how integration falls short in altering the political dynamics and structural inequalities of race. In contrast, community development is presented as a policy alternative that provides benefits to disadvantaged communities (in terms of better housing and jobs, for example) and constitutes a better alternative for addressing more fundamental questions of racial justice.

scholarly journals Economic Well-Being and Children's Social Adjustment: The Role of Family Process in an Ethnically Diverse Low-Income Sample

2002 ◽  
Vol 73 (3) ◽  
pp. 935-951 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rashmita S. Mistry ◽  
Elizabeth A. Vandewater ◽  
Aletha C. Huston ◽  
Vonnie C. McLoyd
Keyword(s):  
Social Adjustment ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Ethnically Diverse ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Family Process ◽  
Economic Well Being

scholarly journals MEAT CONSUMPTION AS AN INDICATOR OF ECONOMIC WELL-BEING — CASE STUDY OF A DEVELOPED AND DEVELOPING ECONOMY

2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 17-26
Author(s):  
Joanna Bereżnicka ◽  
Tomasz Pawlonka
Keyword(s):  
Low Income ◽  
National Income ◽  
Meat Products ◽  
Meat Consumption ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Indifference Curve ◽  
Household Member ◽  
Developing Economy ◽  
Developed Country ◽  
Economic Well Being

The aim of the study was to verify the criterion of meat consumption as a marker of economic well-being, in economies at different phases of development. Meat consumption per capita is a widely used variable which is used to indicate the economic bases for the exclusion of meat and meat products from the diet. The study was performed simultaneously in Austria (a developed country) and Poland (a developing country) in 2015. Descriptive statistics, econometric and descriptive models were used to process the research material. Respondents were classified according to the wealth criterion, measured by the average income per household member in a given country. In the case of the developing economy, it was discovered that the meat consumption function takes the shape of an indifference curve. In the developed economy, once the income per household member exceeds 157% of the average national income, consumers exclude meat and other meat products from their diet for health reasons and reservations concerning the quality and origin of the meat. The consumption of meat in Poland is determined by income amount, at a greater degree than in a developed economy. Low income in Polish families is the reason for the exclusion of meat consumption.

scholarly journals Poverty, Racism, and the Public Health Crisis in America

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bettina M. Beech ◽  
Chandra Ford ◽  
Roland J. Thorpe ◽  
Marino A. Bruce ◽  
Keith C. Norris
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Ethnic Disparities ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The United States ◽  
Health Improvement ◽  
Structural Racism ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
Communities Of Color ◽  
Use Of Social Media

The purpose of this article is to discuss poverty as a multidimensional factor influencing health. We will also explicate how racism contributes to and perpetuates the economic and financial inequality that diminishes prospects for population health improvement among marginalized racial and ethnic groups. Poverty is one of the most significant challenges for our society in this millennium. Over 40% of the world lives in poverty. The U.S. has one of the highest rates of poverty in the developed world, despite its collective wealth, and the burden falls disproportionately on communities of color. A common narrative for the relatively high prevalence of poverty among marginalized minority communities is predicated on racist notions of racial inferiority and frequent denial of the structural forms of racism and classism that have contributed to public health crises in the United States and across the globe. Importantly, poverty is much more than just a low-income household. It reflects economic well-being, the ability to negotiate society relative to education of an individual, socioeconomic or health status, as well as social exclusion based on institutional policies, practices, and behaviors. Until structural racism and economic injustice can be resolved, the use of evidence-based prevention and early intervention initiatives to mitigate untoward effects of socioeconomic deprivation in communities of color such as the use of social media/culturally concordant health education, social support, such as social networks, primary intervention strategies, and more will be critical to address the persistent racial/ethnic disparities in chronic diseases.

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