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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 ...

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...

Positive Impact of Globalization

possible to make an international phone call or surf the Internet from a caf? in Shanghai, while sipping a cappuccino (Micklethwai...

Poverty and the Tropics

of cold weather also demonstrates a dip compared to the temperate climate (Landes, 1999). Using this as a basis it is...

Jonathan Kozol and Gregory Baum on Blindness and Sin

reality, and in other ways a very powerful reality. For example, we could ourselves commit such a sin, even those of us who are so...

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...

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...

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...

Analysis of Debate

are based more on the liberal position that America should be welcome all comers. The growing disparity of language in border sta...

Not by Bread Alone by Melissa Caldwell

the society of post-socialist/communist Russia. One of her focuses involves a feud between a couple of the "regulars" at t...

Poverty and Economic Equality According to W.E.B. Du Bois, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and C.Wright Mills

even more disastrous in contemporary culture. There appears to be no end to what people will do to acquire a lot of money, often ...

Poverty Causes

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

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...

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...

Canadian Children and Poverty

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

The Problem of Poverty and HIV/AIDS Risk for Black American Women

Study The central goal of this study is to consider the social problem of HIV infection/AIDS and the role that poverty and race/e...

Data on U.S. Poverty

1970, 20.5 percent of poor Americans lived in the suburbs, in 2000, that had expanded to 35.9 percent and in 2004, the ratio incre...

Living Within the US Poverty Standard

the country. There is not a great deal of industry in the area; housing is relatively inexpensive. The Tennessee participant pay...

Four Questions on Africa

according to lines drawn in Europe rather than on African realities (Edge 7). In reference to current unrest, Carlene Edie questio...

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 ...

Latin America and Its Persistent Poverty Problem

well as countries of outstanding beauty where tourists come in great numbers. Given all this, it should be a wealthy region, but i...

Chaucer, St. Luke, Aristophanes and Their View of Social Issues

even screenwriters who disguise them as interesting stories. The original Star Trek was great at teaching these moral lessons whil...

Tampa and Rio

to one state, region or nation. This paper compares poverty and its effects in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and Tampa, Florida. Discussi...

Creating Financial Sustainability Poor Nations

defined this as "the capacity of the health system to function effectively over time with a minimum of external". It has become in...

Wealth Distribution and the Impact of Networking

means is that networks now exist at all levels of society, from financial networks to social networks that drive interpersonal com...