For example, "51.6% of lone parent families headed by women are poor" (Morris, 2014, para.4). ... For example, "women with disabilities under 35 had an average income of $13,000, and women with disabilities over 55 had an average income of under $14,000" (para.10). ... In Canada, "the average annual income of Aboriginal women is $13,300" (Morris, 2014, para.13). ... Similarly, (Morris,2014) finds that women of color have lower income than Caucasian women, as "the average annual income for a woman of color in Canada is $16,621, almost $3000 less than the ave...

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Federman states that in 1992 there were only 36 affordable rental units for every 100 households making 30% of the average wage. ... In the USA college costs doubled between 1980 and 1998, whilst the average income increased only 22%. ...

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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). ... According to a study by Joseph Gyourko and Raven Molloy (which shows the gap between real house prices and construction costs), real house prices in 2010 to 2013 were 56% higher than the actual construction costs, which is a 23% percent increase over the average gap during the 1990's (1). ... To do this, the United States Government needs to remove unnecessary regulations, provide more affordable housing for lower class families, and improve ...

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Raising wages for farm workers will not affect an average American. Americans spend very less amount of their income on food, the average American family only spends ten percent of their income on food. ... As, Philip Martin, a labor economist at the University of California- Davis explains, "A 40 percent boost in wages would cost the average American household only about $15 a year" (Smith). ... But the unions make sure that workers improve their working conditions, they can raise their families, buy a safer place to live, overcome discrimination and have a respect in society. ...

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As a result, the ratio between the average spending per household of the last and first tenths in the 1991-94 period dropped from 5.7 to 4.8. The most vulnerable households, those with the lowest level of income and expenditure, are single parent homes with a female head of household in 94% of cases, or those made up of an old couple and bigger families. ... The average number of years of schooling is a clear indicator: the years studied have increased from an average of five for people over 70 years old, to eleven for those aged 20 to 30 today. ... In general, this implies that people chan...

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Among these families, a majority are unemployed with little to no education. ... Neglecting to receive an education causes families to be trapped in impoverished living. ... Family life, gang affiliation and many other factors immobilize Hispanics from receiving a proper education. 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). ... Communities are experiencing accomplishments with collaborative endeavors that focus on the entire family. ...

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According to the World Bank report, its average annual growth rate was measured 7.9% between 1990 to 2000 (World Development). ... Among the poor families, food were the primary concern. ... Undoubtedly, inadequate diet and lack of nutrients had brought many health issues to these poor family in rural area. ... Malnutrition began to appear among poor families particularly in children (UNDP). ... To make the 'cutting down expenditure' method work more effectively, many poor families decided to reduce spending on education. ...

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The study found that these kids on average completed two fewer years of schooling earned half as much to in their life time compared to their middle and upper class peers, receive $826 more in food stamps, eight times more likely to be arrested and twice as likely to be overweight as an adult. ... The study concluded that policy makers should increase the EITC for low income working families, which will help raise these families income to where they are more likely to invest in the development of their offspring. ... The experimental families got a 50% boost in income. ... When families are g...

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Also, it includes adults, children, and youths in shelters such as emergency shelters, transitional shelters, all domestic-violence shelters, and any hotel, motel, or apartment voucher paid because the person or family is homeless. ... As the amount of low income families grow the number of affordable housing decreases. ... Another type of structural cause would be the erosion of value in public entitlements, meaning that the sudden loss of public benefits from their continuous downgrading over the years, due to inflation, generates a major problem that impedes the family from paying the ren...

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This phenomenon presents many national and local characteristics, nonetheless a number of common salient features can be pointed out: high unemployment, substance abuse and dependency, widespread delinquency with high incidence of violent crime, low public trust, ethnic polarization, social exclusion, higher than average mortality and morbidity rates, lack of educational qualifications, high rates of teenage pregnancy and single parent families, substandard housing, urban decay, physical blight. ... Better health for women and their families. ... Female education leads to the postponement of ...

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Families with children constitute approximately 35 percent of the homeless 4. ...working people account for an average of 30 percent of the homeless 5. ...homelessness is found to be a chronic and recurring event." ... Stagnating wages, lack of health insurance, domestic violence, changes in social services and welfare programs, cuts in benefit programs, such as Aid to Families with Dependent Children, Food Stamps and Elderly Assistance, single parent families, drug addiction, mental health problems, natural disasters, job displacement due to military actions, and affordable housing shor...

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An average Indian family spends around 36% of their income on food, yet the country still has over 40% of children under 5 years old who suffer from malnutrition (WSU). With such a high percentage of their income being spent on food alone, these families are not able to spend money on other important areas such as education. ...

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The rate of economic growth since 2003 has averaged over 6 perfect and the rate of unemployment has decreased 4.9 perfect in 2010 having peaked at almost 21 percent in 1985. Sri Lanka boasts having a lower percentage of its population below the official poverty line in comparison to other South Asia countries that is an average of 15.2 percent between the years 2000 and 2009. ... Most resided in transit camps and temporary shelters or with family members although the government claimed in 2012 that all those displaced have now been resettled. ...

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WEALTH AND DEMOCRACY:A POLITICAL HISTORY OF RICH AND POOR Kevin Phillips' insight into American politics and economics has helped to make history as well as record it. The books he has written, including The Emerging Republican Majority (1969) and The Politics of Rich and Poor (1990), have helped t...

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These variations of ways Puerto Rican immigrants earned a salary was not too different from each other, since all of these ways of earning an income for a living was not enough to live a normal life and support their family. ... According to Bourgois (2002:92), "Ray's workers, for example, averaged slightly less than double the legal minimum wage - between seven and eight dollars an hour." ... Schooling for children from poor Puerto Rican families wa...

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The OECD suggests that investing in human capital is the policy maker's best option as they can provide freely accessible and high-quality public services, such as education, health and family care. ... I believe this is unfair since the people who are rich have worked hard to attain their wealth and should have the right to keep the majority of it without having to pay additional taxes only because they have more wealth than the average person in society. ...

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Currently, part of the policy stipulated that each block of units should be sold to families from ethnicities roughly comparable to the national average and the maximum Permanent Resident households. ...

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As of 2013, malnutrition affects on average 32.5% of the children younger than 5 in developing countries, which is about everyone out of three children. ... Children in poor families are eight times more likely to be malnourished than children in higher income households. ...

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As privileged Americans, many of us are unaware of the alarming number of individuals that are currently being smuggled from their homes and taken from their families as we live in ignorant bliss. ... The cycle of poverty and sex trafficking correlate with each other, as families that lack proper education and resources are naturally more susceptible to trafficking perpetrators. ...

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Exposure to extreme weather conditions, unhygienic living areas, and danger of assault are just a few of the day-to-day trials and tribulations undergone by the average homeless person. ... These clinics have much of the same characteristics as any family physicians office, in which the focus of care is on immediate care for acute illness, screening, and health education. ...

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