Neighborhoods can have depressing effect on health, according to study
Wednesday, October 6, 2010 - 14:20
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 US households. That means one in seven Americans now live in poverty, and that may have an especially depressing effect on people living in bad neighborhoods, according to researchers.
