A mother that lives with a salary below poverty, she takes her child to the hospital, he needs a heart transplant. ... The better the quality of life people can get from health care the better chance of having a higher standard of living. ... Look at Sweden they have one of the highest standard of livings. Sweden has free post secondary education, and it's a fact that the higher education that an individual has the better chance of them finding and qualifying for higher paying job, which increases the countries Standard of living. So our standard of living would defiantly fall if there wa...

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These peasants were also very dissatisfied with their living conditions and how land was divided up. ... All peasants wanted was some of their own land to survive on instead of having to work on someone else's for below average pay. ... The living conditions were often very cramped with sometimes four people to a bed. ... Illness could spread rapidly and with disastrous affect due to the cramped conditions of the living quarters. ...

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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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This is how they thought: In looking at a graph, (attached), we see that the equilibrium level of GDP, (Y1), lies below the natural level, (Y2). ... In the end, the course of a nation's recession is controlled by the actions of everybody living in the country. ...

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Based on this statement, the Canadian State is not living up to society's expectations. ... In 1999 over 4-million Canadians were living below the poverty line, and with decreasing government assistance this figure is expected to increase enormously (Dyck, 161). ...

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A large portion of the homeless population consists of men but the number of women and children living on the streets is on the rise. ... According to the 1997 census report 2.3 million people worked full time but were still below the poverty line. ... The obvious solution to the problem of homelessness is to increase the amount of affordable housing and the number of living wage jobs. ...

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A large portion of the homeless population consists of men but the number of women and children living on the streets is on the rise. ... According to the 1997 census report 2.3 million people worked full time but were still below the poverty line. ... The obvious solution to the problem of homelessness is to increase the amount of affordable housing and the number of living wage jobs. ...

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Economics in One Lesson Part one describes that economics is the one study that has more falsisms than any other. The two biggest mistakes made in economics today are that of only looking at the immediate consequences of a proposal, and only considering a certain group and neglecting all of th...

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Name: Anonymous Submitted: 08.29.01 Word Count: 4987 "This site kicks-ass!!" The Ozone a Hole in the Theory The protective ozone layer around our world undergoes much thought and debate. The "Hole", however, only exists in the minds of environmental, self-serving scientists and politicians. It interests many to find all the faults in the publics consensus of the "ozone depletion." Most scientists do not believe in this "depletion", they think it is a natural phenomenon. ...

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The people make up society, and therefore, when the time comes, as Rousseau indicates, that the state of nature is no longer able to support the individuals living in it, the people must come together and, through the social contract, through agreement, create a "sovereign." ...

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The people make up society, and therefore, when the time comes, as Rousseau indicates, that the state of nature is no longer able to support the individuals living in it, the people must come together and, through the social contract, through agreement, create a "sovereign." ...

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