http://www.hcn.org These are the search results for the query, showing results 1 to 15. http://www.hcn.org/issues/44.21/a-new-measure-of-poverty-shifts-rankings-in-the-west When determining who is poor, the Census Bureau takes geography into account in its Supplemental Poverty Measure. No publisher Jonathan Thompson cost of living demographics income inequality census poverty supplemental poverty measure income gap 2012-12-06T18:17:37Z Infographic http://www.hcn.org/issues/44.16/the-great-new-mexican-juniper-massacre On public land in New Mexico, firewood-hunters have illegally cut down hundreds of old-growth juniper trees, much to the dismay of the Bureau of Land Management and environmental activists. No publisher Jonathan Thompson rural economy Pueblo badlands juniper old-growth piñon-juniper firewood illegal woodcutting law enforcement BLM Hispanic woodcutting poverty New Mexico Bureau of Land Management Navajo 2012-09-13T15:04:16Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/wotr/the-teenagers-were-not-helping The West's gay teenagers are too often ignored -- abandoned by their families to live on the streets or in overcrowded homeless shelters. No publisher Tim Lydon bisexual youth abused children Gay and Lesbian Taskforce dysfunctional families Denver Urban Peak Youth Shelter at-risk youth drug abuse Gay marriage transgender youth gay youth homosexuality poverty lesbian youth homelessness homeless shelters rape 2012-05-10T19:46:18Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/wotr/a-do-it-yourself-christmas-tradition How do you make Christmas meaningful? Help someone you've never even met. No publisher Andrea Gelfuso Goetz secondhand stores celebrating Christmas thrift stores Christmas charity unemployment love of neighbor recession unusual Christmas gifts poverty economic downturn Christmas traditions kindness poor families 2011-12-20T18:40:00Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/wotr/times-are-tough-all-over Where's the compassion for the poor bullied 1 percent of the world -- the rich people who just aren't as rich as they ought to be? No publisher Jaime O'Neill humor wealth social unrest 99 percent versus 1 percent tax breaks poverty class warfare billionaires Occupy Wall Street economic inequality 2011-10-25T19:47:47Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/43.8/the-painful-beauty-of-love Melanie Rae Thon's short stories, gathered in her collection In This Light, paint a desolate and tender picture of the West. No publisher Kathleen Yale family Melanie Rae Thon fiction small town life poverty In This Light short stories 2011-05-12T21:41:54Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/wotr/the-persistence-of-a-golden-time-in-the-west Seventy years after the publication of Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath, migrant workers still roam the West, eking out a tough living in its orchards and farm fields. No publisher David Frey Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck illegal immigrants farmworkers poverty migrant workers agriculture 2010-02-05T08:58:55Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/wotr/tent-cities-and-what-they-tell-us Most Americans associate slums with places like Mumbai, India, but all over the West, tent cities and shantytowns are springing up to house the dispossessed. No publisher Jonathan Thompson barrios Slumdog Millionaire Scott Bransford Slums U.S. economic crisis tent cities poverty colonias homelessness 2010-02-05T09:32:05Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/wotr/dust-off-your-survival-skills In tough economic times like these, we could learn a lot from our pioneer ancestors, who managed to survive – and thrive – in a harsh Western landscape. No publisher Marcia Hensley Western history U.S. economic crisis poverty survivalists frontier lifestyle Pioneers agriculture 2010-02-05T09:12:49Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/41.5/Slumdog-U.S.A Most Americans associate slums with places like Mumbai, India. But they exist here, too. No publisher Jonathan Thompson barrios Slumdog Millionaire Scott Bransford Slums U.S. economic crisis poverty colonias homelessness 2010-02-05T09:54:31Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/41.5/tarp-nation Throughout the West, tent cities and shantytowns with names like Taco Flat have sprung up to house the poor and dispossessed. No publisher Scott Bransford Hoovervilles unemployed shantytowns Slums U.S. economic crisis poverty homelessness Taco Flat 2010-02-05T08:55:39Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/wotr/16889 In front of the Flagstaff post office, Mary Sojourner talks to strangers about ending the war in Iraq and feeding the hungry. No publisher Mary Sojourner Politics Peace movement politics Iraq war Mary Sojourner Flagstaff post office conversation families children poverty George Bush hunger Western culture young women 2010-02-05T09:47:20Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/306/15787 Idaho’s Republican Speaker of the House, Rep. Bruce Newcomb, wants to force Wal-Mart to either provide health insurance for its Idaho employees or reimburse the state for providing Medicaid coverage No publisher Dan Popkey Health Socio-Economics Bruce Newcomb Idaho House of Representatives Wal-Mart Albertsons health insurance Medicaid wages poverty cost of living government spending 2012-03-05T23:07:13Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/345/16966 Tiny Vilas, Colo., thought it was a great idea to open an online school and enroll at-risk students from far-away Denver – but neither the students nor the school district ended up scoring well at report card time No publisher Samuel Western Hope Online Academy Colorado Idaho student enrollment students online teaching Baca at-risk County schools Idaho Distance Education Academy poverty Springfield rural communities Deary Communities Bill Gates education Vilas RE-5 school district 2010-08-06T21:26:14Z News Article http://www.hcn.org/issues/347/17026 The brutal murder of a Japanese tourist shines an unwelcome spotlight on the social problems plaguing Arizona’s beautiful but troubled Havasupai Reservation No publisher John Dougherty Tomomi Hanamure violence crime American Indians Havasupai Indian Reservation Havasu Falls Indian culture BIA Native Americans Wescogame Randy poverty Billy Wescogame Sr. Mooney law enforcement social problems Bob Falls Navajo Falls meth abuse McNichols 2010-08-06T19:49:02Z News Article