America has dealt with poverty for decades and programs will continue to be created to assist American families in dealing with the effects of poverty. ... There are many issues that affect children and poverty along with many ways to address and enact change within this population. ... Although the past goal was to eliminate poverty, this goal has not been met and continues to challenge Americans. America continues to struggle with the issue of poverty; it is a challenge that we have been unable to compete with for decades. ... Unfortunately, statistics also show that the national p...

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According to 2013 world hunger and poverty facts and statistics, "Undernutrition magnifies the effect of every disease, including measles and malaria. ... These statistics help confirm that those suffering from malnutrition are more susceptible to diseases because their immune systems are severely compromised. ... Throughout history, Bolivia has been consistently known for being one of the poorest countries in Latin America and the world. ... The reason Bolivia is so unique compared to other countries in Latin America, is it seems to be the only one in Latin America suffering from high death...

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The United States of America is a country known for being prosperous, but it too suffers from this epidemic. ... The Campaign to End Child Homelessness states that over 1.6 million American children go to sleep without a home of their own each year. ... In "Record number of homeless children enrolled in public schools" by Valerie Strauss, it states that "homeless children statistics each year are 10 percent higher than the year before and 72 percent higher than before the recession". ... Children are not the only population affected by this crisis, veterans are also a popul...

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While the housing market for high scale apartments and luxury homes continues to grow, millions of Americans are living in housing they cannot afford. According to a study by the National Low Income Housing Coalition, 75% of the low-income population is spending over half of their income on rent or utilities (5). ... Statistics show that the national ratio of affordable units to low-income families in the United States is a slightly more than 3:10 ratio (8). ... If we think back to the 1700's - 1800's, In US history American workers were moving to the West at an astounding rate. ...

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The Effect of AIDS and Birth Rates are falling but Population is not. ... Another problem is AIDS, which is both a population and social problem. ... Another problem we are facing is a real population explosion among the poor. ... Statistics show that most of them leave the mother to support the child on their own with no financial support whatsoever. America's inner cities -Vs- Third World Countries At first, it might appear impossible to compare conditions in America's inner cities with those that characterize overpopulated countries of the Third World. ...

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It was, as well, the only possibility for many countries to improve their economy: especially in Latin America, where Mexico just stopped refunding its debt because it couldn't pay anymore. ... In each country, even the population is divided in different economic and social layers. ... Twenty percent of the world's population living in the richest countries have 74 times the income of the poorest. ... For example, we can see in England and in America as well, that the differences in income between upper and lower social layers are larger than they have ever been since collection of...

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"In 2006, 9 percent of Americans ages 16 to 24 left high school before getting a diploma, according to the National Center for Education Statistics. ... Hispanics' median income is less than half the average American income, whereas their pregnancy rate is one and a half times as high (Rivera and Berkeley 2). ... Hispanics are one of the fastest growing populations while they are also the least educated. ...

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Unfortunately, while these examples may be accurate in defining a certain type or category of the homeless population, they do not delineate its parameters. ... The numbers of homeless people have multiplied in every major American city since 1980. Drug abuse and crime statistics continue to rise. ... As of 1985, approximately 35 million American citizens did not have any kind of medical insurance coverage. ... Despite these statistics, there is little evidence that the doctrinal appeal of the New Right is declining. ...

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Statistics on Poverty among Women and Current Obstacles Women Face in Relationship to Employment Currently in Canada, women continue to struggle for financial well-being. ... To illustrate the prevalence of poverty among women in Canada, Morris provides a variety of reflexive Canadian statistics. ... The population of migrant women is increasing in Canada. ... According to the 2010-2011 Statistics Canada survey of women's economic and employment, women earned only 75 per cent of what men did in 2009, and the wage gap was even greater if all employed men and women and not just full-ye...

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In contrast, there is virtually no human trafficking in the eastern northern hemisphere in the north American continent and in almost all of the southern hemisphere especially in the Australasian continent. ... This factors, or a combination of many, make populations far more vulnerable to human trafficking, making it easy for traffickers to sell these people with low risk and high profit. ... Statistics around poverty help to explain the strong equatorial pattern of human trafficking with the most tier two watch list and tier three countries found in the equatorial region especially within...

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Despite obvious differences, the similarities and parallels between the predicament of large portions of the population in the developing world and the residents of the urban underclass neighborhoods are quite striking. ... It must be noted that by virtue of an unwritten agreement between the U.S.A. and Western European countries all of the 12 World Bank presidents elected until today have been North American nationals. ...

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