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Poverty Studies: Booth and Rowntree

of the "Life and Labour of the People in London" and actually discovered that the rate of poverty was higher than 25%, existing mo...

Arguing about the Minimum Wage

prejudice. At any rate, MacKenzie argues that raising the minimum wage will hurt the very people its supposed to help, because emp...

Family/Childcare Issues & Single Parent

as the "irregular household structures-of the working poor" (Nelson, 2006). For example, one young working mother relies on her mo...

Poverty and Canada’s First Nations

This escalation can be attributed to a number of factors, one of the most prominent of which is the decline of the indigenous nucl...

Two Social Work Issues

When considering such concepts of indigence, welfare, racism, social fact, social inequality and functional/conflict/symbolic inte...

Problems Facing Native American Nations

This difference resulted in friction between the peoples of this new nation (and in particular its government) and the Native Amer...

The Relationship Between Sport And Politics

like small-town governments: personal, despotic, paternalistic, and absolutely without teeth (Eitzen, 2000, p. 147). Accor...

Vows and Medieval French Monks

In six pages this paper examines whether or not the Medieval monks of France honored their vows of silence, obedience, poverty, an...

The Struggle for World Peace: More Attainable Now Than Ever Before

This 5 page paper argues that with the end of the Cold War, world peace is now potentially more attainable than at any time in his...

Poverty in the Third World from a Sociological Perspective

the current problem is the current rate of consumerism, which relies on reduced costs to the businesses of first world states by e...

The Legal Use of Child Labor in Pre-Victorian England

12 pages and 12 sources. This paper relates the specific views of the history of child labor and the use of child labor in early ...

Immigration Effects

cost of keeping the immigrants in jail simply eats money unnecessarily. Another problem that plagues this country is poverty. The...

Poverty and U.S. Immigration Law

In thirty pages this paper examines U.S. immigration laws and how immigrant communities are affected by poverty. Twenty five sour...

A Portrait of Two Pilgrims in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales

The Parson was a learned man. The Parson: "He was a learned man also, a clerk" (480). "Who Christs own gospel...

Mexican-American Border Culture and Across the Wire by Urrea

died of exposure, eight of whom were babies and expired on Christmas Eve. While the garbage men were used to finding babies in the...

The Tribute to Endurance that is Frank McCourt's Angela's Ashes

In five pages the book in which McCourt recounts his Irish childhood of poverty is examined within the context of Angela, the indo...

Feminist Views on Society and Their Impact Upon Poverty

In forty pages the 'feminization of poverty' is examined through case studies that illustrate how social structures have been impa...

Alcoholism, Poverty, and Native Americans

Wing (1996) notes that research findings have indicated the fact that within the Native American culture, the reality of alcoholis...

Peru Population and Poverty

In five pages this paper discusses Peru's high population and the connection there is between that and its poverty percentage. Si...

Past and Present Political and Economic Systems of Mali

In fourteen pages this report examines the Empire of Mali from past to present in a consideration of its economic poverty and poli...

Philippines, Child Prostitution and Labor

child labor in other countries are all too often shoved aside in favor of getting a good deal on a pair of chinos and the problems...

Poverty Creation and Welfare

In two pages this paper considers whether or not welfare is contributing to the development of poverty or eliminating it. Two sou...

Intelligence and Social Problems Such as Poverty

In eight pages the perspectives of Charles Murray, and author of The Bell Curve, are considered in a discussion of the relationshi...

Impact of Poverty in the United States

Poverty is widespread in rural counties without economic bases. There are also 625 counties in the US where poverty and wealth are...

Pros and Cons on the 'Inevitability' of Poverty

This paper evaluates the statement that poverty is not an inevitability in an assessment of pros and cons. Six sources are cited ...

Administration of George W. Bush and Poverty

and around $1,200 in subsidized school meals for both children (Besharov 35). After taxes, this comes to around $21,000 per year. ...

African National Congress's Impact on Social Change

In five pages this paper assesses the social change impact of the African National Congress with poverty among the topics addresse...

Amazing Grace by Jonathan Kozol

In five pages this paper discusses the culture of poverty within the context of this 1995 book by Jonathan Kozol. Eight sources a...

U.S. Federal Poverty Line

In eight pages this paper discusses what is meant by the poverty line and what it actually measures for the federal government. F...

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...