Tag: social services
![Homeless in Boston stock phot](https://crr.bc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/iStock-511390601.png)
Boston’s years-long struggle to deal with the homeless encampment of tents and an open-air drug market near what city residents call “Mass and Cass” – the intersection of Massachusetts Avenue and Melnea Cass Boulevard – is a testament to how intractable homelessness is. But on top of the difficulty of arranging housing in short supply…
![Nurse Pushing Old Man On Wheelchair In Hospice](https://crr.bc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/nusring-home-1536x1024.jpg)
The connection between Americans’ socioeconomic status (SES) and their health was established long ago and the evidence keeps piling up. Less-educated, lower-income workers suffer more medical conditions ranging from arthritis to obesity and diabetes. And the increase in life expectancy for less-educated 50-year-olds was, in most cases, roughly 40 percent of the gains for peo…