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Can "Laziness" Explain Poverty in America?

to cast the issue as a moral wrong is entirely fraudulent: the system is there to be used by those having difficulty finding work,...

No Shame in My Game by Katherine S. Newman

are also seeing to gain protection from the pressures of the street and, often, to escape trouble at home and in their neighborhoo...

A Financial Perspective of Globalization

to $336 billion (Capital goes global, 1997). That trend slowed some after the advent of the Asian currency crisis in 1997, but it...

2 Essays on Social Work and the 'Worthy Poor'

(Trattner, 1999). Accordingly, leaders in the field of social work began to urge a pro-active stance toward the nations mounting p...

When Work Disappears by William J. Wilson

This paper presents an analysis of William J. Williams' When Work Disappears The World of the New Urban Poor in five pages. Ther...

Regulatory and Scientific Work Environments and Communication

In five pages a problem history regarding the poor communication skills that plagued a regulatory work group is discussed along wi...

A Modest Proposal To Abolish Schools And Introduce Workhouses In Their Place

not grow up unsupervised, where they do not have good role models and a firm structure they may grow up with temptation to behave ...

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...

Bill Moyers' Speech and Sociocultural Dynamics and the 'Working Poor'

synonymous with a systems approach, in that both terms refer to "nested" systems, in which subsystems specifically refer to relat...

Benjamin Franklin and Jonathan Edwards

on that he believes in the Presbyterian concept of Predestination -- "From my childhood up, my mind had been wont to be full of ob...

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 ...

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...

Rich Dad, Poor Dad by Kiyosaki

of us learn about money from our parents. So what can a poor parent tell their child about money? They simply say Stay in school a...

Herbert Gans/Urban Villagers

slum" and while its residents had their own problems, these difficulties did not evolve from living in this neighborhood (Gans xiv...

Barbara Ehrenreich on the Working Poor and Not Getting By in America

could earn $7/hour, she could perhaps afford something that cost $500/month, or $600 with "severe economies," but anything else wa...

Working Multiple Jobs

(Youssef). She gets home from her regular day job at about 6 p.m. and then works on her own business until 1 a.m. or later (Yousse...

Two Consumers; A Comparison of Purchase Processes and Influences

in the two months following Christmas, and that December, in the run up to Christmas is also one of the periods of peak spending i...

Flaubert, Swift Comparison

this age, will not yield their parents a sum sufficient to cover what has been invested in raising them thus far (Swift). He then ...

Working Conditions Can Impact Quality of Life

This paper has two sections: psychosocial factors that affect health and an appraisal of two journal articles. The first section p...

The Largest Retail Store and OB

Wal-Mart is the largest retailer in the world. It is criticized in the United States for low wages, lack of health and welfare ben...

Gas Rationing

out a system so that those who drive farther get more gas? Whos going to go around to all the congressional districts and check on...

Nazi Era and German Working Class Socioeconomic Conditions

of Jewish property: I can still feel today the way I thought back then. I wondered: "what will happen to us some day because of a...

Working Conditions and the Industrial Revolution

any attempt to better their conditions was seen through direct contact with officials, rather than mill owners. With those realiti...

Consumer Pressure for Better Health Care

A seven page paper delineating the factors behind the impetus for better health care products and services. From the 1960s onward...

The Focus on the American Middle Class in 1960s through 1990s Advertising Campaigns

In a paper consisting of five pages the ways in which print advertisements have portrayed the lucrative consumer base of the Ameri...

Consumer Interest Rates and the Impact of the Federal Reserve System

Fed raises its interest rate, then the commercial bank also takes the same action with the interest rate it charges for loans made...

Young Americans and '30 Somethings' Consumer Habits

In six pages this paper contrasts the differences in consumer attitudes between young adults and '30 something' Americans that ten...

1990 to 1995 Conditions of America's Working Class

verses the tenth percentile had increased to over four times as much. The discrepancy for women increased as well, from 3.1 in 19...

How Spending by Consumers Was Affected by President Ronald Reagan's Tax Cuts

In seven pages this paper discusses how 'Reaganomics' or the economic policies and tax cuts of Ronald Reagan impacted the spending...

History of the Chevy Corvette

In six pages the Chevrolet Corvette Stingray is examined in this historical overview of what it reveals about consumer behavior an...