CONNIE SNYDER MICK, Ph.D. | Engaged Teacher, Scholar, Administrator

Minimum-wage jobs are physically demanding, have unpredictable schedules, and pay so meagerly that workers can’t save up enough to move on.

Source: It Is Expensive to Be Poor – The Atlantic

Can a stressful childhood make you a sick adult?

Source: The Poverty Clinic – The New Yorker

Grammar matters, especially when textbooks tackle the subject of slavery.

Source: How Texas Teaches History – NYTimes.com

The socioeconomic divide helps determine who gets to grow old, researchers have found. Living longer, high earners take home more in federal benefits.

Source: Income Inequality Grows With Age and Shapes Later Years

Inequality thickens as we age–both financial and social poverty grow deeper.

James O’Connell refers to himself as a “street doctor.” Since 1985, he has cared for homeless patients, sometimes making visits on park benches or in alleys. His memoir is Stories from the Shadows.

Source: House Calls To The Homeless: A Doctor Treats Boston’s Most Isolated Patients : Shots – Health News : NPR

Wonderful work by a Notre Dame alum.  Many of my students have worked with him and/or the Healthcare for the Homeless program in Boston.

In 2014, there was no statistically significant change from 2013 in either real median household income or the official poverty rate.

Source: Income, Poverty and Health Insurance Coverage in the U.S.: 2014

Poverty rate holding steady, but more people have health insurance.

How to bottle the advantages of prep school.

Source: What the Privileged Poor Can Teach Us – The New York Times

Source: Admission impossible: Preferential option for the poor at Catholic colleges | USCatholic.org

A strong summary of the situation of admitting low-income students to Catholic colleges and suggestions for change.

Source: What I learned about selfishness after using the “prisoner’s dilemma” on my college class – Quartz

Fascinating follow-up to this “controversy”!