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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...

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. ...

Definitions of Poverty and its Effects

to the industrial subsistence patterns of today. If we define poverty from a strictly numeric perspective, as the so-called "pove...

Schools, Families and Poverty

lived within the poverty level in 1994 (Rigsby 12). This is based on the designation made by the federal government that any fami...

Fighting Global Hunger

a major concern for not only national leaders but individuals, activists and support groups as well. For decades now, people have ...

The Views of Alex C. Michalos on World Poverty, Currency Exchange, and STET

In a paper consisting of fourteen pages Michalos' belief that budgetary reforms in Canada, the U.S., and the world can erase globa...

A Poverty Explanation

In nine pages the reasons why poverty exists are probed with a culture of poverty thesis, the importance of a work ethic with refe...

Argumentative Essay Opposing the Iraq War

trillion.6 The severe economic effects of this war in terms of costs that include war zone operations, troop deployment, equipmen...

Questions on North American Petroleum Dependency

sixty percent of the current U.S. oil demands (Roberts, 2008). With the price of oil moving upward of $130 US dollars...

Outsourcing by American Firms; Political and Economic Influences and Results

of the associated costs, including health insurance costs and legal costs. There are many areas of outsourcing, one of the major a...

Poverty in Thailand: Internal or External Causes?

extending on into her future. Under the leadership of Pridi Banomyong (a man whose life had been immersed in the effort to ...

Poverty, Class and Worldview

to more radical ideas from the people they meet socially and through education. Each individual is likely to believe that their wa...

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...

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...

Welfare Reform Issues and Barbara Ehrenreich's Nickel and Dimed

In five pages this essay discusses U.S. welfare reform in a consideration of the working poor observations made by Barbara Ehrenre...

St. Francis and Previous Monks on the Concept of Christian Poverty

"On arriving in a certain town, being very hungry, they went, according to the Rule, begging their bread for the love of God....

Poverty and Children

the Institute on Race and Poverty (2000), an area of "concentrated poverty" occurs when forty percent or more of the population of...

Contemporary Society and Poverty Causes

the student to consider the fact that those in poverty typically do not have many of lifes basic necessities, such as enough food,...

World Poverty and Globalization

restructuring of the global economy which was so desperately needed in 1944, and the General Agreement on Trades and Tariffs desig...

Poverty and the Role of Education

In a paper of four pages, the writer looks at global poverty. Efforts to fight poverty through education are examined. Paper uses ...

An At-Risk Brooklyn Youth Case Study

involved in drug dealing and in fact, by the time he would turn 14 years old, would carry a gun ("Shawn," 1993). By the time he is...

Jewish Law, Dehydration Death, and Poverty

into a selfish, egotistical and myopic entity; no longer are people more concerned with others than they are with themselves. The...

City Life, Homelessness, Race, and Sociology

In twenty five pages this paper examines issues of race, urban life, gender, and poverty from the sociological perspectives of Ell...

Christianity Challenges, Mandates, and Dualism

the entertainment industry and organized crime. Americans spend billions on dollars in x-rated entertainment, drugs, religious lit...

Frontier Influence on Presidents George Washington, Andrew Jackson, and Abraham Lincoln

cry may have gone out -the army is coming! And in 1794, Washington order 13000 men to march into the frontier to "deal" with The ...

U.S. Government, the Economy, Poverty and Welfare

This research paper offers an overview of the federal government's activities in the realm of economics. The writer argues that th...

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Her Life and Career

Court in August of 1993 by a Senate vote of ninety-seven to three (Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg). Indeed, it can e...

U.S. Federal Poverty Line

In eight pages this paper discusses what is meant by the poverty line and what it actually measures for the federal government. F...

2 US Supreme Court Cases on 'Life and Liberty'

terminated, or were about to terminate, such aid without prior notice and hearing, thereby denying them due process of law" (Goldb...

Trends and Influences on the Pharmaceutical Industry

greater life expectancy increases the potential markets for treatments associated with the process of aging, from arthritis to hea...