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US Economic Life/Billionaires & Poverty

fact that the minimum wage has been frozen at $5.15 an hour since 1997 (AFL-CIO). The following examination of the extremely wealt...

Poverty and the Typification of Poverty in the U.S.

the NASW website discusses poverty and argues that it is about "much more than money alone" (Poverty, 2009). Poverty is the result...

Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction

population. Roosevelt called for "a decent standard of living for all individual men and women and children." He said, "Freedom fr...

Kindleberger on the World Economy

the overall health of a nations citizens can be used as an indicator of economic primacy is certainly debatable; however, the Worl...

Is Outsourcing Leading to an Economic Decline in the U.S.?

thousands of new jobs in the United States" (Outsourcing creates jobs, study says, 2004-hereafter "Outsourcing, 2004"). Global Ins...

Is There Evidence of Inequality In The US Criminal Justice System?

poverty. There is always a potential bias in any system that has the danger of becoming an inequality. The basis of the law and...

Poverty : Causes And Effects

the five states with the highest rates of poverty were New Mexico, Arkansas, West Virginia, Louisiana and Texas (Rodgers, Payne an...

Global Poverty Reduction

International releases an annual Corruption Perception Index, which does not seek to measure actual levels of corruption present i...

Comparison of Contemporary Poverty and Charles Dickens' Depiction of Nineteenth Century Poverty in Hard Times

rather than the shameful exception" (Trevelyan, quoted in Johnson, 274). But even more dramatic was the change in attitude towa...

U.S. Nuclear Family and Poverty

In ten pages this paper discusses the nuclear family's role in U.S. poverty with the Culture of Poverty and various other theories...

Economic Justice and Poverty

In five pages this paper examines poverty and economic justice from libertarian and utilitarian perspectives with theories by Jovi...

Statistical Trends Charts Illustration

In five pages U.S. trend charts that display economic information from 1998 are discussed and include a five year national deficit...

The Conceptual View of Poverty and its Impacts

of society (2003). Over time, through Roosevelts New Deal, and other changes, there was attention paid to those who could not affo...

The Issue of Child Poverty in Great Brittan

Britain. The average weekly income in a northern household was 291 pounds in 1993; while in the southeast, it was 424 (Dyer, 1995)...

CENSUS, POVERTY AND PORTRAITS

in 2007. It is difficult finding a specific income for a poverty-stricken family, as the Census Bureau relies on family an...

Organizations, Communities, Poverty

can and do influence the characteristics of the organizations within the society" (p. 76). It is also true that the industry withi...

Poverty in Alabama

Virginia, Kentucky, Oklahoma and Texas" (Tuscaloosa News, 2007). It should, however, be noted that in the past Alabama has also ra...

Opinions on Poverty as the Cause of Crime

that he has no good answer for it. The students response to these two essays is also likely to depend on where he or she is on th...

John Schwarz's America's Hidden Success Winning The War On Poverty

This text on winning America's war on poverty is analyzed in five pages....

U.S. Intervention in Central America

over the world-Iraq is merely the latest in a long list of interventionist adventures-but hes one of the most articulate. Chomsky ...

Justifications for Selling Pharmaceutical Products at a Narrow Profit Margin

A problem has resulted surrounding the release of this drug, however, that could threaten XYZs profitability. The new drug is des...

The Boyer, Boyer and Morais Book Labor's Untold Story

The writer examines the book Labor's Untold Story by Boyer, Boyer and Morais, which discusses the role of labor in the U.S. econom...

Living Below The Poverty Line In America And Ethiopia

Bureau, 2005). The 2000 census reflects an unemployed rate of 6.1% out of the overall civilian workforce of 656,539 people. Occu...

Global Poverty

so that greater benefits are transferred to the developing country....

Rise of Bill Gates

In a paper consisting of four pages a biography of Microsoft founder billionaire Bill Gates is presented and includes an examinati...

Industrialist and Movie Tycoon Howard Hughes

Jean Harlow and Katherine Hepburn), his OCD would dominate his life. Hughes lived his final decade of life as a social recluse, a...

Berkshire Hathaway Inc. and Warren Buffett

22.2% compounded annually" (Buffet, 2004). Peter Lynch called Buffet "the best investor in history" (Simon, 2001, p. 45). Given t...

Poverty and Economic Equality According to W.E.B. Du Bois, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and C.Wright Mills

even more disastrous in contemporary culture. There appears to be no end to what people will do to acquire a lot of money, often ...

Four Questions on Africa

according to lines drawn in Europe rather than on African realities (Edge 7). In reference to current unrest, Carlene Edie questio...

Racial and Urban Policy Economics Issues

In six pages racial issues and their impact upon the economic conditions associated with urban poverty are discussed. Eight sourc...