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Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
Comprehensive multi-disciplinary full text database with thousands of periodicals and other publications.
ChildInfo This link opens in a new window
UNICEF website providing statistics and data on the situation of children and women throughout the world. Some data is downloadable to MS Excel.
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JSTOR (EXPANDED COLLECTIONS & JOURNALS - ENDS 6/30/23) This link opens in a new window
Hundreds of academic journals in full text from v.1: n.1. Primary source materials include 19th Century British Pamphlets, Struggles for Freedom: Southern Africa, and World Heritage Sites: Africa. All Open Content, Collections, and Reports are available to Fordham users. Artstor database of visual media is now accessible from the JSTOR platform. Basic and advanced searching defaults to "read and download" content we subscribe to. Browsing defaults to "all content." Look for the Access Level limiter on the lower left side to change settings. Access excludes ebooks, Thematic Collections and Global Plants (part of Primary Sources).
Policy File Index This link opens in a new window
Now on the Proquest platform! Online access to public policy research and analysis from think tanks, university research programs, research organizations and publishers.
ProQuest Research Library This link opens in a new window
Full text of articles on broad range of subjects since 1971
SocIndex with Full Text This link opens in a new window
Comprehensive index to the literature on sociology including journals, books, and conference papers.
Sociometrics Social, Behavioral, and Health Sciences Library (Formerly SSEDL) This link opens in a new window
Over 400 data sets on wellness drivers including sexual and reproductive health, HIV-awareness, mental hygiene, intimate partner violence, and substance abuse. Can be downloaded for SAS, SPSS, and STATA. Access only to DATA. Do Not use Internet Explorer.

Books & E-books

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The American Way of Poverty: How The Other Half Still Lives by Sasha Abramsky
Call Number: E-book
New York, NY: Nation Books, 2013.
A Freedom Budget for All Americans: Recapturing the Promise of the Civil Rights Movement in the Struggle for Economic Justice Today by Paul Le Blanc
Call Number: E-book
New York, NY: Monthly Review Press, [2013].
Global Poverty, Ethics and Human Rights by Desmond McNeill
Call Number: HC60.M296 2009 (RH)
New York, NY: Routledge, 2009.
The Unheard Truth: Poverty and Human Rights by Irene Khan
Call Number: HC79.P6 K43 2009 (RH)
New York, NY: W. W. Norton, 2009.
Women and Poverty in 21st Century America by Paula Vw Dil
Call Number: HV1445.D35 2012 (RH)
Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2012.
World Poverty and Human Rights: Cosmopolitan Responsibilities and Reforms by Thomas Pogge
Call Number: JC571.P577 2008 (RH)
Cambridge: Polity, 2008.
2nd ed.

Web Content: Poverty

An Act Concerning A Homeless Person's Bill of Rights
From the State of Connecticut General Assembly, File No. 418, January Session 2013.
At Risk of Homelessness - Definitions
From the US Electronic Code of Federal Regulations, US Government Printing Office (GPO)
Changes in Poverty Measurement: An Examination of the Research SPM and Its Effects by Gender
By Laryssa Mykyta and Trudi J. Renwick, US Census Bureau, January 2013, SEHSD Working Paper #2013-05.
Child Poverty
From ChildStats.gov, 2013.
Discrimination, Inequality, and Poverty - A Human Rights Perspective
From Human Rights Watch
Ending Extreme Poverty
From USAID."USAID is the lead U.S. Government agency that works to end extreme global poverty and enable resilient, democratic societies to realize their potential."
Human Rights Dimension of Poverty
From United Nations Human Rights
Human Rights, Health and Poverty Reduction Strategies
This title is a joint product of the Office of the United Nations Higher Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) and of the Department of Health Policy, Development and Services, and the Health & Human Rights Team of the Department of Ethics, Equity, Trade & Human Rights, of the World Health Organization (WHO); December 2008, Issue No. 5; 88 pp.
National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty
Poverty Data Tool
From the New York City Center for Economic Opportunity; "allows users to access CEO poverty rates."
Poverty Guidelines, Research, and Measurement
From the US Department of Health & Human Services, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation
Poverty Mapping
From the Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC), A Data Center in NASA's Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) - Hosted by CIESIN at Columbia University
Rural Poverty & Well-Being
From the United States Department of Agriculture Economic Research Service; last updated November 22, 2017.
Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights
From the United Nations
2017 Poverty Guidelines
From the US Department of Health & Human Services, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation
US Poverty Data
From the US Census Bureau
Vicious Cycle of Poverty and Mental Health
By John M. Grohol, PsyD, from PsychCentral

Human Rights: Poverty

Databases

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Web Content: Poverty

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