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Canadian Children and Poverty

only is "the rate of child poverty ... growing" particularly among recent immigrants and native peoples, but the widening gap betw...

Annotated Bibliography on Global Poverty

would include social exclusion, social dependency, and the ability to live a normal life according to societys standards, are also...

Poverty Causes

higher median income than native-born citizens" (Young, 2005). Young does admit that most people, if born into the culture of pov...

MDGs and Development Promotion Commitment

the MDGs which are the cornerstone of the Millennium Declaration can be driven forward (Banuri, 2005). The UN appear to believe ...

Catholicism and the Poor by Dorothy Day

poor and the "undeserving." Day and Maurin shocked traditionalists by welcoming drunkards and other men down on their luck, which ...

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. ...

Nineteenth Century Potato Famine of Ireland

also examines some possible solutions. Clarkson points out that other writers, in addition to Grada, have been appalled at the fac...

Poverty Articles by Paul Collier and David Dollar and David Slater and Morag Bell Reviewed

if we look at where the aid is going is currently giving the greatest poverty relief to the South East Asian area and the least to...

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...

Jewish Law, Dehydration Death, and Poverty

into a selfish, egotistical and myopic entity; no longer are people more concerned with others than they are with themselves. The...

The Working Poor Invisible in America by David Shipler

hes already delivered powerful works on the Middle East (Arab and Jew) and race (A Country of Strangers: Blacks and Whites in Amer...

African American Poverty Causes

"blacks are significantly more structuralist that whites in their thinking about poverty" (they see the system rather than the ind...

Crime, Drug Use, and Their Contextual Relationships

defend" (Anonymous, 1998, p. 26A) brings to light yet another detrimental impact of teenage drug use. The 1990s heralded in...

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...

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...

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...

Poverty and Rates of Population Growth

economic influence of overpopulation. It is often the oldest, poorest and most overly populated, which establishes it as a haven ...

A Review of Blaming the Victim by William Ryan

A 7 page overview of the societal ills of poverty. Ryan contends that is not the poor that are responsible for these ills but rat...

Social Change as Viewed by David Landes and John Foster

In ten pages two comparative and contrasting views on social change are examined as they are represented in John Foster's The Vuln...

U.S. and the Disparity Between Wealth and Poverty

In five pages poverty in America is examined in terms of its reasons with comparisons made with other countries during different t...

Poverty and Single Mothers

In five pages a book review article by Judith Stacey entitled 'Through My Own Eyes: Single Mothers and the Cultures of Poverty' is...

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...

Relationship Between Poverty and Child Abuse

The relationship between poverty and child abuse is considered in ten pages. Sixteen sources are cited in the bibliography....