First, even though I am more of a laissez fair capitalism form of market person, I believe that an increase in minimum wage by the state government would help the problem. ... Also, in the KET video, the idea of some people being one or two pay checks from being in poverty was brought up, so if they live on minimum wage, would that given them an increase in money security to prevent them from going under the poverty threshold should they miss a paycheck for some reason? The reason that I believe an increase in minimum wage would help, is because of the work incentives it provides. ... However,...

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The gap between the rich and the poor is still increasing. ... Actually, it is still increasing, more or less. ... Also, many people know sometimes a big part of the money doesn't go to the place where it should go. ... All the money comes from people's hard work, through developed countries have a lot of money. The money is for the whole country instead of several leaders. ...

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WHY IS THE BALANCE BETWEEN RESOURCES AND POPULATION IMPORTANT FOR THE FUTURE OF KENYA Introduction: The problem is that the population is increasing and there are not enough resources for all the people of Kenya. ... The resources that are important in Kenya are food to eat, water to drink and beautiful scenery, which attracts tourism and makes money for the country. ... Less fertile land also results in fewer goods to export so a lot of money and trade is lost because of this. ... Increasing resources: Spend some of countries money on fertilisers for the ...

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As a result, nations owing vast amounts of money, found themselves deeper in debt. Between 1980 and 1987, Africa's debt increased from $120 billion to $250 billion. ... This solution does not bode well with most bankers as they stand to lose enormous amounts of money. ... Since 1980, the price of maize has increased several times, as a result, maize crops have increased from 80, 000 to 800, 000 tonnes produced a year. ... The bankers that are owed the money will be satisfied as they still receive money, and the governments will be happy as they receive assistance with less cost. ...

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Many factors such as poor wages for women and the increase of single-woman parented families have caused an increase in the percentage of women among the poor. ... One way to eliminate these numbers would be to increase the minimum wage. ... They believe that many of the poor just take advantage of the welfare system and look at it as free money. One ignorant view of some better off people is that I had to work hard for my money, they should have to as well. ... In my opinion, welfare money can assist them with this. ...

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There is also an increase in the amount of families whose income is not enough to sufficiently support them. ... This money can be used with any provider of child care, including the families" relatives. ... One finding was that the aid to families with dependant families increases significantly over 30 years. ... Federal funding for child care did increase from 1997 to 2000 at a rate of 250% from $2.5 billion to around $6.5 billion, and state funding has increased by about two thirds, from $1.5 billion to $2.5 billion. ... This money, however, only goes to about 30% of the children who are na...

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Why should we spend time and money producing them when we can not only obtain them from another country, but we can also help that country out by investing in them? Our time and money would also be better spent on the demand of something such as technology. My final reason for supporting globalization concerns the overall increased standard of living experienced by every country involved. ... The introduction of jobs has increased the local standards of living of many countries, causing the percentage of malnourished and impoverished people to decrease. ... Also, between 1950 and 1999, worldw...

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It will provide them with better health care, which in turn will increase the average age and decrease the number of people dying from illness and disease. ... Decreasing poverty will improve living conditions and increase income levels. ... Currently, the rich-poor gap only continues to increase. ... Educated people have better jobs, which pay more money. ... In Africa millions of dollars have been given to help improve their poor state, but their poverty rates only continue to increase (Raghaven). ...

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Today we are living in a world where the gap between the rich and the poor turned into a bottomless gulf, where the phrases such as the Third World countries and the First World countries have become customary as if they named just regular flow of things and where the clinking of money is considered the sweetest music. ... Nothing can justify indifference or noninvolvement of the rest of the world, the world that has enough food and enough money to indulge even strangest whims in the fate of the world that is devoid of even the most basic for sustenance. ... "The changes required by...

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TAL also argues that, when a definition of poverty using an increasing threshold is used, there has still been no statistically remarkable trickle down effect in the post 1963 period for any demographic group. ... Once the lower end of the income distribution is not uniformly distributed, even a constant trickle down effect, which brings about equal dollar increases in all family incomes, would lift only fewer and fewer families above the poverty line. ... An absolute analysis of trickle down from which policy implications can be drawn requires time-series data on both money and non-money tr...

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There could be several reasons why there is an increase of those giving birth to only one child. In older days it was known that women would stay home and raise the children as the men go out and make the money. ... However, "where birth rates have failed to decrease and in some cases have actually increased, has been among the poor, and especially among the inner-city welfare poor" (Widdison p209). ... A reason sometimes the poor have more children than the young adults with money is because of their financial status. If you have less money you are not going to run out and buy a box of condom...

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This is not at all the reason to the increase of homeless people since that time. ... Also there is reason to think that the homeless have increased to the abandonment of many low-income housing. The main reason for the incline of so many homeless people is caused by our economical increase. ... There is a big demand for shelter at a low-level rent for those with less money. The government should provide these, so that we can eliminate this increase of homeless people in America. ...

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Nobody wants to lose money! ... A unit of input can be land the firm bought, or a new machine it brought in to increase revenues. ... While keeping with an economic view of this issue, it is most apparent in the increased wages of women in recent years. ... He also was great with saving his money. ... So some say that these transfer payments actually increase poverty instead of stop it. ...

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The reason there is so much hunger and problems related therein is because the growth rate of major crops increased at a decimal rate where the population grew exponentially. ... Basically, what happened to Ethiopia was that they started in the early seventies producing crops that brought in great amounts of money but tore apart the soil. Such crops as Cotton and Potato's did the worst possible things to the soil and although at the time there was money to be made, many years down the line things would be much worse. ...

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Wright Mills coined as the "power elite" that control, not only money, but power. ... Individuals and countries are increasingly moving into situations of disparity due to increasing debt from hyper-consumption and the Imperialistic spread of chains, such as Wal-Mart and McDonalds. ... Additionally, states offer incentives for corporations to come to their area, remain there, or grant money for improvements to factories and plants known as corporate welfare. ... Many times the promise of increased jobs in economically challenged areas are embraced and accepted, but the reality is many corpo...

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Nick Hanaeur says it himself, he has way more money than he even knows to do with.      ... With so much money in your possession, you could own literally anything your heart desires. ... With all the money they have, they have the power to influence way too many national/worldly decisions. ... The low class is too frugal and fragile to spend money on anything past necessities. ... There are of course many other ways to fix our economy including adjusting taxes and providing more securities for Americans, but I found investing in education and increasing wages as the best methods. ...

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It is commonly believed that the welfare system is comprised of lazy people who want to cheat the government out of money. ... Most also have more money, but a large minority are worse off. ... One big unresolved question is whether popular support for work requirements will lead states to spend more money to help single mothers join the work force. Although this is happening in a few states, many states seem to care more about saving money than increasing the size of the labor force. ... Welfare reform has caused an increase in filings of dependency and neglect and an increase in children ...

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Imagine the feeling of having a whole family to take care of, but not enough money to provide for them. ... I was so shocked when I saw the gap between the amount of money the upper class holds in America compared to the poor, and even the middle class. You would think that with all that money, and seeing how poor people live in this country, those wealthy people would share and help the cause. ... If I had the money to donate to the poor I definitely would, but it would take more than just my money to really have an effect. ... I feel like the minimum wage should definitely increase. ...

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The King was unfair and taxed them heavily on everything, even basic goods, and used that money for his own luxury. ... Today, education counts the most in our society because it indirectly means money. And so, the cycle continues on and on; while poverty increases, so does crime. ... But today's crimes aren't like stealing a loaf of bread; it's more like stealing money. Once again, poverty had forced people to steal; Stealing money seems to be the easiest way out of this situation. ...

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In the world, one of the most common topics to discuss and what governments have to take some action on is poverty; poverty is the state of not having enough money to meet basic needs. ... They do not care about increasing family and population; they think that one more baby will go to work and bring some money to home. ... Due to this there are lots of germs and viral Bactria found in the air and people getting disease, not only children get ill but as well as adult also getting ill, for that reason the majority of death ratio is high in slum area and do not go to hospital they are not financ...

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As stated in Item B, globalisation is widely regarded as a growing interconnectedness of the world whereby which the world is gradually becoming metaphorically smaller through the increasing use of technology, the internet and the media and better improved and more accessible transportation methods such as budget airline flights. ... He reports that transnational corporations are now able to avoid being fairly taxed by moving money from country to country. ... Furthermore they have increased their use of subcontracting, a practice within which illegal employees are paid below minimum wage. He ...

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Most countries contribute most of their public revenues to education, and poor nations have invested huge sums of money to education. ... These countries believe that to increase the wealth of their country they can put this premise to use by educating their people in order to increase the income level and all that comes with a higher level of income, such as higher quality of living, higher savings and higher investment levels. ... Two is that increasing women's education not only increases their productivity on the farm and in the factory but also results in greater labor force pa...

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The growth driven by an increasing flow of immigrants from all around the world which created our especially diverse nation. ... One being, that our country is very fortunate in having ample food and money. ... Those resources we don't have right at our fingertips we have the ability and the money to be able to purchase them over seas. ...

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He is the one who we see begging for money as we walk the streets, has few possessions, perhaps living out of a grocery cart, and certainly no home. ... To battle the increasing population of the homeless, government funded shelters should be constructed. ... Not that the idea is not a noble one, but rather because money is always difficult to come by when the government is involved. ...

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And, second, the share of children in mother-only families is increasing dramatically. ... While the percentage of children in single-parent families is increasing almost everywhere, the trend is more advanced in certain communities. ... Men, Money, and Marriage The absence of a father from a family has many implications, but among the most predictable results is lower family income. ... Empirically, there is a close link between income and marriage for men.** The graphic shows a steady increase in the percentage of men who are married as income increases. ... "[11 According to Wilson, the ...

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