One of the greatest crises our population we face in our great nation and possibly the rest of the world is poverty. ... Those who have benefitted from the increase in minimum wage were those above the poverty line and not the poor themselves therefore the efforts where wasted. ... Unemployment itself is a setback in society and is one of the major causes for poverty. ... In my opinion, it starts with the individuals affected by poverty to act in order to get themselves out of poverty which can be conducted by utilizing the government programs available to them such as food stamps as resource...

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Collective Resilience: Decreasing Vulnerability Paralleling an exponential growth in global population, increasing worldwide energy production and consumption generates vulnerabilities in human and environmental health. The global dependence on energy creates a demand for the production of variou...

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Therefore, Escobar categorizes them into three main objections: post-development overlooking poverty and capitalism as the real problems of development, presenting an oversimplified view of development, along with strong resistance against development in the field, and romanticizing local traditions and social movements. ... James Ferguson and Larry Lohmann, in line with post-development theory, believe that development as a construct of the developed Western world has largely failed, pointing to the specific case study of development projects in Lesotho. ...

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Some argue that an expanding global economy provides new opportunities for the developing world to integrate into global markets and to achieve rapid rises in living standards "pointing" to ongoing global growth and a reduction in absolute poverty. ... Immigration rules and relative poverty mean that workers can't threaten to move in the same way. ...

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This should not come as a surprise, considering the last line of the Communist Manifesto: "Working men of all countries, unite!... But this was not a consideration, for Eastern Europe supported it, and had it not been for the revolution many farmers would have been driven into poverty through bankruptcy, which led to local rural support. ...

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