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Temporary Programs, Lasting Questions: Ad Hoc Assistance in the U.S. Farm Safety Net

open access: yesApplied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Large ad hoc assistance programs have returned to U.S. farm policy since 2017, operating alongside a more developed safety net built around federally subsidized crop insurance, Title I commodity programs, and standing disaster assistance. This paper reviews the renewed use of ad hoc assistance, documents its recent scale using USDA data, and ...
Alejandro Plastina   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Food Tastes in the United States: Convergence or Divergence?

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates how food consumption tastes have changed in recent decades across the United States. Using NielsenIQ data for over 77 million transactions, there is evidence of divergence in food tastes across regions from 2007 to 2016 and across households of different income, education, and race/ethnicity groups.
Michael DeDad
wiley   +1 more source

Higher Turnout, Greater Inequality? A Precinct-Level Analysis of Income Inequality in U.S. Presidential Voting, 2016 to 2020

open access: yesSocius
The relationship between income and voter turnout is crucial to understanding U.S. democracy. Previous research has revealed that richer people tend to vote at higher rates than lower income people. But this research relied on survey data and was subject
Ankit Rastogi, Daniel Laurison
doaj   +1 more source

The Determinants of Voter Turnout in Croatian Local Government Elections

open access: yesJournal of Public and Nonprofit Affairs
This study examines the factors influencing voter turnout in the 556 Croatian local governments over 2014-2021. The previous electoral turnout has a negative influence on the following elections turnout, which is consistent with the declining trend in ...
Francisco Bastida   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Food insecurity and unemployment among immigrants in the United States

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Immigrants can be more vulnerable to economic downturns and, during periods of economic hardship, more likely to experience food insecurity compared to natives. This study examines the differential effect of the unemployment rate on the probability of being food insecure among diverse groups of immigrant households relative to natives in the ...
Siwen Zhou   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Travel Cost on Election Day and Voter-Turnout in Chile: Exploring University Students’ Willingness to Cast a Hypothetical Online Vote

open access: yesSAGE Open
An i-voting system may promote electoral participation by reducing travel cost and time to polling places, especially among youth who are more accustomed to technological changes.
Andrés A. Acuña-Duarte   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Why Did Voter Turnout in the Czech General Elections Change between 1996 and 2010?

open access: yesSociologický Časopis, 2011
The aim of this study is to explain why turnout in Czech general elections exhibited considerable variation between 1996 and 2010. Using valence theory this article explores the differential turnout in terms of the expected benefits of voting for a party
Lukáš Linek
doaj   +1 more source

Freedom dreaming of migrant justice: Critical reflections on counterspaces and institutional violence in the university

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract US universities are built on stolen land and sustained through hierarchies of power that produce what migrant justice scholars name as b/order regimes. As institutions that claim to be sites of learning and inclusion, universities are fraught with contradictions as simultaneously sites of dispossession, exclusion, and control.
Sara L. Buckingham   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Why Does the Number of Voters and Invalid Ballots Decrease in the Second Rounds of Czech Senate Elections?

open access: yesSociologický Časopis, 2015
The second rounds of elections to the Czech Senate consistently suffer from the lowest voter turnout among all types of elections in the Czech Republic.
Karel Kouba
doaj   +1 more source

POEMS Syndrome: 2026 Update on Diagnosis, Risk‐Stratification, and Management

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Hematology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Disease Overview POEMS syndrome is a life‐threatening syndrome due to an underlying plasma cell neoplasm. The major criteria for the syndrome are polyneuropathy, clonal plasma cell disorder (PCD), sclerotic bone lesions, elevated vascular endothelial growth factor, and the presence of Castleman disease.
Angela Dispenzieri
wiley   +1 more source

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