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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...

United States, Latino Immigration, and Poverty

according to Nieman Reports researcher Joe Rodriguez (1999, p. 45). Basically, the welfare laws allow states to choose between con...

Poverty, Masculinity, and George Orwell's The Road to Wigan Pier

instead, have served to almost break mens spirits. He seems to have been illustrating the immense danger a political system could ...

Globalization and Poverty

a day" (The World Bank Group, 2001). In terms of infant mortality we can see that "Eight out of every 100 infants do not live to s...

Poverty in Central America

begun in 1850 that affected El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama well into the twentieth century" (Habegger, Pearlman, 200...

Poverty and Globalization

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

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...

Developing Nations and Management Issues

of any country appears to go through different stages when becoming industrialised. The issue of industrial relations is one aspec...

Women and Poverty in America

women were in a sort of Catch-22 situation. Charities did not want to contribute to able bodied women, but at the time women could...

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...

Ohio and the Middle East

rainfall that is well distributed throughout the year (MSN Learning & Research). It varies from 28 inches per year on Catawba Isla...

Poverty, Women, and Social Work

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

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...

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...

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. ...

Montreal and Poverty

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

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. ...

Impacts of Poverty on Children

doesnt take a great deal of historical awareness to recognize that politicians have engaged in all sorts of acrobatics to negate o...

U.S. Incidences of Teen Pregnancies

be done in this area. Table 1 illustrates the distribution of teen pregnancies by ethnic group. Table 1. Teen Pregnancies by Eth...

Juvenile Crime and Poverty Connection

a greater chance of juvenile delinquency within these poor neighborhoods because the children have fewer life chances. Another obv...

Poverty and Welfare Policy

result had a devastating effect on the poor. For example, private enterprises shipped their labor overseas, reducing the already s...

The UK's Social Exclusion Unit and Child Poverty

within flourishing communities. As Toynbee (2004) notes, without including all the indicators of social inclusion in the broader p...

United Kingdom's Asian Community Housing Needs

was and is true in all areas of housing, from social housing and private rented areas to more affluent privately owned up market a...

Situational and Generational Poverty According to Ruby Payne

habit, it becomes cyclical (Payne, 2001). 2. Situational where poverty is sudden and brought on by an event, such as a divorce, lo...

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...

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...