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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...

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...

Problems and Solutions Regarding Poverty

In twelve pages this paper discusses poverty in an overview of the problems connected with it and suggestions regarding possible s...

Problems of South Africa and Solutions

In seven pages this paper examines the poverty and racism that have historically plagued South Africa in a discussion of possible ...

Cuba, Mexico, and Revolution Causes

In five pages this paper examines Cuba's and Mexico's revolutions and the role played by nationalism with poverty factors also con...

Young Men, Violence, and its Causes

In five pages this paper examines drugs, poverty, and media desensitization as possible causes for young men's violent behavior. ...

Global Poverty and Solutions According to Peter Singer

progress. We should at least be open to the possibility that we are today witnessing not moral progress but a dramatic moral regre...

Exploitation of the State and the Perspectives of Karl Marx

In seven pages this paper examines how Marx's philosophy describes the exploitation of the state in such writings as 'Value, Price...

Rosa Lee by Leon Dash

In five pages this paper discusses this sociology text in a consideration of the author's featured case study that considers how c...

Sub Saharan Africa and Slow Economic Growth Causes

In five pages this paper examines the sub Saharan region in a consideration of poverty levels and slowed economic growth. Five so...

Social Systems and Economies of North Africa and the Middle East as They Relate to Poverty Issues

In twenty pages this report focuses on Jordan's Hashemite Kingdom in a consideration of the poverty issues that have historically ...

State Power Resistance

In eight pages this paper discusses poverty in Ireland and England and the resistance to state power and justification of such res...

Welfare System and the Economy

In four pages this paper discusses social stratification and the problems of poverty and welfare programs. Four sources are cited...

India's Economic Status

In fifteen pages this report considers the economic status of India and considers such concerning issues as historical precedence,...

Graphs and Poverty Figures

In seven pages this paper discusses poverty figures in a consideration of global and U.S. level measurements. Four sources are li...

Economic Justice and Poverty

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

Impoverished Students and Their Educational Needs

In five pages this paper discusses poverty in the U.S. in terms of the educational needs of impoverished students. Ten sources ar...

John Maynard Keynes and Adam Smith on Poverty

The poverty perspectives of Smith and Keynes are contrasted and compared in eight pages. Eight sources are cited in the bibliogra...

Singing Away the Hunger by Mpho Nthunya

In five pages this South African autobiography is examined with poverty and apartheid impacts upon families among the topics discu...

Two Perspectives on Economic and Social Development by Foster and Landes

In nine pages a comparative analysis of two texts that consider social and economic development and the influence of capitalism, T...

Pebley and Sastry/Page Summary

functions as after-school program, child-care services, and so forth. Income also impacts this factor in that, as low income famil...

Measures of Poverty

is a discernible, measurable economic level that marks the demarcation line between the advantaged and the disadvantaged (Iceland,...

Issues in Social Stratification

the upper class is largely defined by the characteristics of having "old wealth," that is, having had above average income for mul...

Canada and Special Interest Groups

In eleven pages this paper discusses Canadian interest groups including the Communist Party of Canada, the National Anti Poverty O...

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...

Urban Economics and Politics

of the southern states black families received lower benefits than white families and many received no benefits at all, no matter ...

City Life, Homelessness, Race, and Sociology

In twenty five pages this paper examines issues of race, urban life, gender, and poverty from the sociological perspectives of Ell...

Henry VIII, Elizabeth I, and England's Poor Relief Efforts

In eleven pages this paper discusses sixteenth and seventeenth English poverty in a consideration of the poor relief efforts initi...

Sociological and Economic Considerations for the European Union

In thirteen pages this research paper examines the EU in terms of its advantages, pros and cons regarding economics, and sociologi...