Introduction to the Issue, Focus 30(1)

Timothy M. Smeeding
Spring/Summer 2013
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This issue of Focus covers four topics: the income-health gradient; emergency savings for low-income families; a successful place-based urban policy—the federal urban Empowerment Zone program; and jobs—the importance of who you work for, and job quality for low-wage workers. These articles are based on recent work by our local and national affiliates. All of them send the message that addressing the problems of health status gradients, emergency savings, and decent jobs are complicated endeavors. But each of these advances our policy- and poverty-relevant knowledge and gives hope of improved lives for low-income families.

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