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Marxist Views on America's Poor

soul. Marx saw capitalism as the culprit in creating poverty as it divided the people. Many would think that those in the higher ...

Poverty Crisis

group that has so far studied the cost of living in metropolitan and rural areas in ten states" (Bettendorf 2000, 4). All indic...

North Korea and Poverty

every other basic need one can imagine. While United States officials are wined and dined and told what they want to hear when th...

Discrimination Against Mexicans in the United States

not do. Mexicans work for wages that white people laugh at. They slave away in agricultural fields producing the food we eat and w...

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...

Child Welfare Survey Results

a higher level of education is regularly under 20% of the population (The Business Journal-Milwaukee, 1999). With an understandi...

Poverty and Welfare Policy

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

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...

U.S. Immigration

poverty among immigrants who have been in the country less than ten years was 34.0 percent in 1994 and 22.4 percent in 2000; the r...

Public Policy Issues as State and Local Levels

have stayed essentially the same for decades and that single mothers are most often poverty-stricken. Social Welfare programs, ...

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...

Sponsorship of the Olympics and Social Issues

main advantage to sponsoring sports events is that the sponsorship can and should be used as a "catalyst for building corporate im...

Poverty and Social Work

The Charity Organization Society quickly became a model by which many other charitable organizations were modeled and developed (T...

Poverty and Children

that poverty is "a state in which one is unable to obtain basic necessities required to sustain a minimally adequate standard of l...

The Potential Benefit of FDI from China to Africa

Africa is one of the world's poorest regions. It has been argued that one strategy which is useful for economic development to all...

Impact on Language Learning, Global Issues

This research paper explored organizational websites of intuitions that focus on global issues, such as environmental issues, pove...

Social Work Among the Elderly, An Overview

This paper presents an overview of urgent issues in social work that entail provision of services to older adults. Topics addresse...

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...

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...

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...

Global Warming

There are two sociological problems discussed in this essay. The first section discusses aging and focuses on poverty among the el...

Poverty and Aid

This paper provides two responses to a YouTube video that was produced by OXFAM America and concerns global poverty. Each of these...

Poverty and Malnutrition - A Statistical Analysis

In a paper of ten pages, the writer looks at malnutrition and poverty. Correlations are drawn through the use of statistical analy...

Urban Poverty

In a paper of five pages, the writer looks at causes of urban poverty. Material and cultural conditions are explored as causes. Pa...

Educational Performance and Poverty - A Statistical Analysis

In a paper of eight pages, the writer looks at educational performance and poverty. A correlation is established by way of a stati...

Hungry Children in America

This essay reports statistical data regarding families living below the poverty line and the numbers of children who are food inse...

Annotated Bibliography of Childhood Cognitive Development and Poverty

In a paper of three pages, the writer looks at childhood poverty and development. An annotated bibliography covers some ten studie...

Arguing about the Minimum Wage

prejudice. At any rate, MacKenzie argues that raising the minimum wage will hurt the very people its supposed to help, because emp...