Neighbourhoods can have depressing effect on health, according to Iowa State study
Thursday, October 7, 2010 - 10:40
in Health & Medicine
The nation's poverty rate climbed to 14.3 percent - the highest level since 1994 - according to the Census Bureau's annual report on the economic well-being of U.S. households. That means one in seven Americans now live in poverty, and that may have an especially depressing effect on people living in bad neighbourhoods, according to two Iowa State University researchers...