Tackling the pervasive impact of poverty requires a disruptive approach. Poverty in Memphis reached 22.6% at last report, with poverty ...

“Crime is often the result of lack of opportunity, lack of work opportunity,” Delavega said. For decades she has tracked poverty trends and has found a direct correlation between poverty and ...

Areas of deprivation, tend to have higher crime rates. This suggests there is a strong link between poverty and crime ... people who commit crime. Recent research into the causes of crime has ...

The Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) has long been recognized as one of the most effective anti-poverty ... The relationship between financial insecurity, welfare reform, and crime is well ...

Living with persistent poverty and/or parental mental illness throughout childhood may double the risk of carrying and/or using a weapon and getting on the wrong side of the law by the age of 17, ...