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• - Articles on poverty and Social Security from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a liberal public policy research organization.
  
• - Article on the negative effects of the lottery. "People go there seeking hope, seeking huge benefits; instead they get ripped off, impoverished by the state government that was elected to protect them. The average person who consistently invests in t
  
• - Study from the liberal Center on Budget and Policy Priorities on the effectiveness of government programs in reducing poverty.
  
• - Article investigates the causes, modus-operandi and issues of begging in India; includes a number of photographs.
  
• - An overview of poverty in the United States, including the latest Census Bureau estimates and distribution issues. Includes links and recent news.
  
• - Ohio State University extension fact sheet on poverty and its official definitation, with an emphasis on poverty in Ohio.
  
• - This article discusses and compares the welfare state in Britain, France, Sweden, Germany, the United States, the European Union and developing countries.
  
• - Overview of the official methodology used to calculate poverty in the United States from the US Department of Health and Human Services.
  
• - Opinion pieces examining the roots of discrimination against the needy, especially neighborhood NIMBY opposition to social services siting in Buffalo, New York, by William W. Berry.
  
• - 850 Kb PDF file. A look at the actual material living standards of persons defined as "poor" demonstrates that the Census Bureau's official poverty report is misleading.
  
• - An overview of the Social Services Block Grant (SSBG), a generic federal block grant program for social services in the United States. Includes information on funding, services provided, and the program's legislative history.
  
• - Recession and Sept. 11 are causing more homelessness, which may echo '80s crisis. From the Christian Science Monitor.