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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...

Problems Facing Native American Nations

This difference resulted in friction between the peoples of this new nation (and in particular its government) and the Native Amer...

Poverty and Canada’s First Nations

This escalation can be attributed to a number of factors, one of the most prominent of which is the decline of the indigenous nucl...

U.S. Intervention in Central America

over the world-Iraq is merely the latest in a long list of interventionist adventures-but hes one of the most articulate. Chomsky ...

The Problem of Poverty: A Look at Santa Rosa, Florida

11.9%(2004) ("Santa Rosa County," 2008). * There is less poverty in Santa Rosa County than in Florida overall. * Yet, clos...

Two Social Work Issues

When considering such concepts of indigence, welfare, racism, social fact, social inequality and functional/conflict/symbolic inte...

Family/Childcare Issues & Single Parent

as the "irregular household structures-of the working poor" (Nelson, 2006). For example, one young working mother relies on her mo...

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...

The Relationship Between Sport And Politics

like small-town governments: personal, despotic, paternalistic, and absolutely without teeth (Eitzen, 2000, p. 147). Accor...

Juvenile Crime and Poverty Connection

a greater chance of juvenile delinquency within these poor neighborhoods because the children have fewer life chances. Another obv...

Social Reform Legislation Since WWII

Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). This sort of organized effort was necessary in order to chip away little by little at the m...

Globalization - Review Of Two Articles

in global trade, the less inequality there is. At this point in time, many Americans would not agree with this conclusion although...

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...

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 the Tropics

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

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

Poverty Creation and Welfare

In two pages this paper considers whether or not welfare is contributing to the development of poverty or eliminating it. Two sou...

The Tribute to Endurance that is Frank McCourt's Angela's Ashes

In five pages the book in which McCourt recounts his Irish childhood of poverty is examined within the context of Angela, the indo...

Peru Population and Poverty

In five pages this paper discusses Peru's high population and the connection there is between that and its poverty percentage. Si...

Past and Present Political and Economic Systems of Mali

In fourteen pages this report examines the Empire of Mali from past to present in a consideration of its economic poverty and poli...

Intelligence and Social Problems Such as Poverty

In eight pages the perspectives of Charles Murray, and author of The Bell Curve, are considered in a discussion of the relationshi...

Impact of Poverty in the United States

Poverty is widespread in rural counties without economic bases. There are also 625 counties in the US where poverty and wealth are...

Pros and Cons on the 'Inevitability' of Poverty

This paper evaluates the statement that poverty is not an inevitability in an assessment of pros and cons. Six sources are cited ...

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...