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Poverty in the United States as a Social Problem: Causes, Theories, and Proposed Remedies

percent in 2004 (Spriggs, 2006). Beckley (2007) discusses that based on federal government measurements - known as the poverty li...

Minimum Wage vs. Living Wage

2006, Miami city government began requiring that service contractors that hold contracts of over $100,000 per year must pay their ...

Poverty? ?A Universal Problem? ?

overcrowded population and improper living conditions are of particular concern. So too are high death rates. Poverty in develo...

US Poverty and Inequality: Questions and Answers

measurement the federal government presently uses was developed by the Social Security Administrations Mollie Orshansky during Pre...

Impoverished Neighborhoods in New York City

the phenomenon by noting that the poor are disconnected from middle class social networks that could help them land jobs or propel...

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...

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...

Development and Human Rights as Addressed by Bolivian President Evo Morales

as a deep concern for human rights and a commitment to his countrys economic development (Trujillo, 2007). Having confronted adve...

Welfare and Poverty

Such social conditions may well lead to more people being discouraged and living in poverty or on welfare. A society needs to wo...

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...

Anchorage Demographics and Economic Needs

Alaska faces many challenges in insuring that her citizens health and welfare. Many Alaskans are suffering with health problems b...

Poverty and Social Work - Research Principles and Proposal

variable is that which is changed by the independent variable. For example, suppose one wanted to determine the impact of light on...

Poverty in Rural China - The Impact of Social Work

might more evenly promote growth in all levels of society. This paper will present an overview of the issue of poverty and unequal...

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...

Poverty and Crime Among Canada’s First Nations

Canadas First Nations peoples find themselves at severe disadvantage in many distinct regards when compared with other Canadians. ...

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...

Social Problems and the Theories of Emile Durkheim

In ten pages the theories of Emile Durkheim inclusive of anomie are applied to such social problems as poverty, homelessness, and ...

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. ...

'Barbie Q' by Sandra Cisneros

In five pages this essay discusses how symbolism within this narrative reveals how the author feels about stereotypes, infidelity,...

'The Poor' and Changing Attitudes

Jacob Riis (1849-1914) was one such man and he wrote of his times, first for a renowned city newspaper (The New York Evening Sun),...

Defining Poverty

New Yorks inner city whose poverty level status still affords him cable television? This question, along with others, surfaces as ...

Miami's Poverty

In seven pages the Miami and Dade area of Florida is the focus of this economic consideration of poverty and its causes in the reg...

Essay Explication on Three Varying Topics

This 9 page paper examines three essays in detail, comparing and contrasting the concepts used. The papers are entitled Robust Sat...

Bilingual Education Evaluations and the Influence of Parents' Involvement and Poverty

In eleven pages this paper discusses the effects of poverty on a bilingual child's education along with an assessment of the posit...

South Africa's Youth Issues

This paper examines South African youth in this post apartheid overview that addresses HIV and AIDS heath concerns, education, cri...

Impoverished Children and Violence Effects

Both of the Rivers brothers have regularly seen their friends and relatives die from simply being in the wrong place at the wrong ...

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...