Supplemental Resources

A Federal Government Web site managed by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Healthy People 2020

World Health Organization (WHO)

– the official federal statistics about the number of Americans in poverty each year.

– a statistic about the percentage population living in poverty

– The poverty guidelines are a simplified version of the federal poverty thresholds, used in determining financial eligibility for certain federal programs. They are issued each year in the Federal Register by the Department of Health.
Office of The Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation

United States Census Bureau

Office of The Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation

A grassroots movement representing United Ways, corporations, nonprofits, and foundations in Arkansas, Connecticut, Florida, Hawai‘i, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Louisiana, Maryland, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, Washington, and Wisconsin.

Economic Policy Institute

By Kristy Thomas, MS, PA-C | March 19, 2018

HUD User, Office of Policy Development and Research (PD&R)

Lexington Law | December 31, 18

United States Census Bureau

United States Census Bureau

The author summarizes the work of Deborah K. Padgett, professor at the Silver School of Social Work at New York University and co-principal author of recent study in Evaluation and Program Planning, and debunks twelve common myths about homelessness in America.

Blog post on MEDPAGE TODAY’s KevinMD.com, the author, an internal medicine resident, reflects on growing up in a low-income household and arising conflicting emotions as they approach middle class (or higher) household wealth.

Blog post on MEDPAGE TODAY’s KevinMD.com, the author, a medical student, challenges readers to examine their implicit biases and choice of language by remembering that the colleague sitting next to each of us could be a person who has faced homelessness.