Both of these groups were suffering in great poverty, and poor working and living conditions. ... This is, for sure, part of the 3/5 of farmers below poverty line (www.ccer.org/migrant/homemig.htm). ... They had no clean running water, no sanitation, or a big enough living area to sleep. The current migrant farm workers are living in some of the same situations as the Okies. ... This way of living is far from appropriate in the United States. ...

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I have always been intrigued by the lives of those living on the "other side of the fence" than me. I have always had a deep-rooted admiration for those who are less fortunate and do in fact have to face the horrible struggles of living below the poverty line in our country. ... I wanted to choose a family who was living in an impoverished section of any inner city and who was living below the poverty line. The reason for this is simple; I wanted to with ask how they make it, and how they survive living in such conditions. ... Being that my church has a food pantry that provides dinners for ma...

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Many "Welfare-to-Work" families continue to live below the poverty level. ... Department of Health and Human Services, a family of three making less than $15,260.00 in one year is considered to be below the current poverty level (qtd. in Dep. ... For instance, a single mother with three children, living in California, working fulltime and making minimum wage, (currently at $6.75 per hour), would gross $13,500.00 for one year - far below the current poverty level (Qtd. in Dep. ... For instance, many welfare leavers (as they are commonly referred to) continue to live below the current poverty l...

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War On Poverty: Project South Another project that is trying to make lead way in the poverty war. Is the Project South(PS) is a program that is felt strongly felt though out the South East United States. Project South(PS) is a community-based, membership institute that develops popular...

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Poverty here is defined as having net household income below 60% of the median income, after housing cost. ... The situation is even bleaker for children, with almost a third of children living in poor households in 1999. ... Distribution of poor children by work hours of household Total hours worked by all persons in household Actual poverty patterns 1999 Projected poverty in 1999 if work patterns comparable to 1979 % Distribution of poor children Children who are poor living in households with given work hours as a % of all children % Distribution of poor children Children who are poor...

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About 75 percent of the entire population was living below the poverty line in 2007 and more than half of them live on less than a dollar a day. The proportion of poor people living in rural areas is about 80 percent. ... According to the Joint UN Program on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), of the 170,000 people between the ages of 15 and 49 estimated to be living with the virus in Sierra Leone in 2001, some 90,000 were female. ...

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In the United States nearly 40 million people are considered to be living in the condition of poverty. ... This basic definition, however, fails to define exactly who in a society is considered to be living in poverty. ... Thus, any individuals whose income was less than this amount for a year would be considered to be living in poverty. ... Even more discriminatory is the status of women among those living in poverty. ... Many people below the poverty level just need a bit of financial help to get them started in the right direction. ...

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Poverty is the lack of money, need or scarcity. Poverty in the United States is a well-known thing. Poverty is all throughout United States and is getting worse every single year. In the United States, 35 states alone have a ten percent or higher rate of poverty. With the amount of poverty in the U...

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More and more people are beginning to fall below the poverty line. ... "In 2011, 46.2 million people in the US were living in poverty and the nation's official poverty rate was 15 percent, up from 14.3 percent in 2009, according to the US Census Bureau. ...

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These people are living on a day-to-day basis. ... Because they are living day by day, people in poverty have no chance to improve their status. ... The poverty line is the level of income below, which the income of the household or individual is inadequate to meet the essential needs of the household or individual as determined by society. ...

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