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The Causes of Poverty

Poverty, unfortunately, is a fact of life not just in third world nations but right here in the United States. The patterns of po...

An Analysis of Health Considerations in Anchorage

Alaska faces many challenges in insuring that her citizens health and welfare. Many Alaskans are suffering with health problems b...

Update on LBJ's 'War on Poverty'

economy (Grier and Jonsson, 2004). These days, some of the programs continue - one of them being Medicare (Grier and Jonsso...

U.S. Immigration

poverty among immigrants who have been in the country less than ten years was 34.0 percent in 1994 and 22.4 percent in 2000; the r...

Social Reform Legislation Since WWII

Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). This sort of organized effort was necessary in order to chip away little by little at the m...

NIGERIA OIL, AND THE CURSE OF BLACK GOLD

of Nigeria, which is exporting more oil (United Arab Emirates, 2009). Granted, the systems of government are very differe...

Poverty in the United States as a Social Problem: Causes, Theories, and Proposed Remedies

percent in 2004 (Spriggs, 2006). Beckley (2007) discusses that based on federal government measurements - known as the poverty li...

Minimum Wage vs. Living Wage

2006, Miami city government began requiring that service contractors that hold contracts of over $100,000 per year must pay their ...

Impoverished Neighborhoods in New York City

the phenomenon by noting that the poor are disconnected from middle class social networks that could help them land jobs or propel...

US Poverty and Inequality: Questions and Answers

measurement the federal government presently uses was developed by the Social Security Administrations Mollie Orshansky during Pre...

Poverty? ?A Universal Problem? ?

overcrowded population and improper living conditions are of particular concern. So too are high death rates. Poverty in develo...

Development and Human Rights as Addressed by Bolivian President Evo Morales

as a deep concern for human rights and a commitment to his countrys economic development (Trujillo, 2007). Having confronted adve...

Welfare and Poverty

Such social conditions may well lead to more people being discouraged and living in poverty or on welfare. A society needs to wo...

Poverty, Women, and Social Work

community solidarity which...provided a sufficient rational for local responsibility" (Trattner, 1999, p. 16). Furthermore, the po...

Poverty and Globalization

of globalization at the supranational level, it has a great impact on subnational dynamics (Yusuf, 2000). There has been a trend, ...

Caribbean Countries and How Nutrition is Impacted by Poverty

most of the developed countries of the world. Belize has a population of nearly two hundred thousand for its small island size, b...

Sociologically Analyzing Poverty

also are affected. Although one can say that poverty is a situation that should be eradicated, the truth is that there are differe...

A Poverty Solution

could live comfortably. It would appear to be a common sense approach, but the idea of welfare is often discouraged in a society t...

Poverty and the Effects of Social Policies

21 months to reach independence through employment. The goal, of course, is to aid recipients in becoming independent of welfare b...

Montreal and Poverty

In this paper, well examine a variety of issues pertaining to poverty in Montreal specifically, and poverty throughout Canada as a...

Relief from Debt for 3rd World Nations

"From misery to poverty" is the aim that international financial institutions (IFIs) have had in taking on their "consulting" role...

Food Budgeting in Relation to the US Poverty Standard

lower than in other parts of the country. There is not a great deal of industry in the area; housing is relatively inexpensive. ...

Globalization, Inequality, and Poverty

economist and former member of staff for the Wold Bank; Surjit S. Bhalla, claims that this target has already been reached (Cliffo...

The Old Guitarist Painting by Pablo Picasso

the blue period would further find inspiration. "Having outgrown his possibilities in Madrid (Spain) by the age of 19, he went to ...

'Up the Coulee' by Hamlin Garland

is a story about change - the change in a man, people he recognizes and knew his entire life did not recognize this man who Garl...

Africa, Health, Poverty, and AIDS

viewpoint on the topic is important for research, if effective means of reducing and eradicating the disease are to be found. ...

North Korea and Poverty

every other basic need one can imagine. While United States officials are wined and dined and told what they want to hear when th...

Discrimination Against Mexicans in the United States

not do. Mexicans work for wages that white people laugh at. They slave away in agricultural fields producing the food we eat and w...

Poverty and Children

that poverty is "a state in which one is unable to obtain basic necessities required to sustain a minimally adequate standard of l...

Gender, Class, and Race from a Social Perspective

Much of what Rubin (1994) says is true, of course, but there are also other perspectives available. The author seems to want...