A factsheet from the Urban Institute provides a quick overview of recent research on poverty, including its effects on immigrants, health care, children, infants with depressed mothers, employment, assets, and neighborhoods. To view the factsheet, go to: http://www.urban.org/url.cfm?ID=412300.
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