Clearly the average family of today does not fit the Cleaver prototype. ... Today there are many ways in which you may classify a family unit, and more are trying to get a broader definition of family to be the framework for public policy pertaining to family. ... As families and society develops new definitions for family they must have government follow suit. ... Families have members spending more time at work, "estimated by economist that the average employed person works a month more a year than he or she did in 1970,"" (p. 385, Andersen and Taylor, 2002). ... If we are to promote family ...

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An example can be made of how faulty our current welfare system is by giving statistics of an average family on welfare, and the benefits that they are eligible to receive. A poverty line is set, and this line is an average income amount that is set to show how much it would cost to support a given family. The poverty line in this example for a four-person family is $20,000 a year. ... So let's say that our example family has two parents and two children. ... It's her laziness that keeps her family in poverty. ...

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As we enter the twenty-second century, the family farm is now becoming extinct. ... The average age of the American farmer is now over sixty years. With the average age rising, one-day farmers will become extinct. The size of the family farm has risen over the last fifteen years tremendously. ... The average age of the farmer is now over sixty years of age. ...

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The current homeless population is mostly non-white and has an average age of the middle thirties. ... The government defines a family of four as being poor if they generate a yearly income of $15,569 or less, although the average improvised families income was only around $10,000 in 1995. The Encyclopedia of Applied Ethics states, the average annual income of the homeless in Chicago was $1198 in 1996. ... At which point the father then grabs his daughter by her hand and says to his family, dont even look at him, and then rushes them away. ... New York University did a study ...

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The current homeless population is mostly non-white and has an average age of the middle thirties. ... The government defines a family of four as being poor if they generate a yearly income of $15,569 or less, although the average improvised families income was only around $10,000 in 1995. The Encyclopedia of Applied Ethics states, the average annual income of the homeless in Chicago was $1198 in 1996. ... At which point the father then grabs his daughter by her hand and says to his family, dont even look at him, and then rushes them away. ... New York University did a study ...

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A normal family of five or six received a single room about 25 by 20 feet. ... Meals were provided for evacuees costing no more than 45 cents per resident per day (the actual cost averaged at about 40 cents). ... Most residents who work were paid on average 14-16 dollars for a 44 hour week. ...

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One finding was that the aid to families with dependant families increases significantly over 30 years. ... This is when TANF became a program available to families. ... Estimated earnings are average retail wages in Tompkins Co. (30 hour-work week), New York State Labor Department, 2000. This analysis assumes a ratio of two children per family/parent. ... Estimated earnings are average retail wages in Tompkins Co. (30 hour-work week), New York State Labor Department, 2000. ...

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Even with those families or adults working, they are not making enough to pay for the health insurance needed. ... The average family household income in 2012 was $64,053. There are so many people under that average, and the majority of them have been earning the non-family household income of $30,880 or less ("Poverty in the United States"). ... On average, people are receiving $133.14 per month in food stamps. ... With the public providing some space for the unfortunate ones to live, there has been a big increase in family homelessness. ...

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One is that people do a significant amount of harmful things in their homes each day, not just to themselves, but to their families. ... "Well," he explains, "high cholesterol kills thousands of people each year from related diseases, and you were eating this junk, and your family had access to it as well. You obviously do not know what is best for yourself, and certainly not for your family." ... Opposite those effects, is your average cannabis smoker who smokes only on occasion because the drug is not physically addictive at all, and bears a similar mental addiction to caffeine. ... But I al...

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Individuals and families with income between the 133 percent and 400 percent of poverty level will be granted subsidies to purchase insurance through state-based exchanges. ... Petruncio, a family doctor in Turnersville, NJ, agreed, "This is not a way to build trust in government. ... Hogue, a family doctor in Brownwood, TX. ... In fact, the Massachusetts Medical Society discovered that 53 percent of family physicians and 51 percent of internal medicine physicians did not accept patients at all, and those that do typically had a long wait - averaging 36 days for family doctors and 48 days f...

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Included in the homeless population are people who stay with friends or family for a short period of time and then decide to find shelter on the streets because of conflict with the people whom they are staying with, or because of personal pride. ... The current homeless population is mostly non-white and has an average age of the middle thirties. ... The government defines a family of four as being poor if they generate a yearly income of $15,569 or less, although the average improvised family's income was only around $10,000 in 1995. ... The Chicago coalition for the homeless states th...

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The unknown citizen is an average citizen. ... The unknown citizen symbolizes all the average people in a society and how the government wants the people to live. The unknown citizen also shows how the government treats average people as a number, and not a name. ... The speakers also found things about the citizen from the Bureau of Statistics and social psychologists, but not from the citizen's friends or family. ... All the average people in a society are simply statistics to the government and the only thing the government truly cares about is ensuring that all the citizens abide by t...

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With an average growth rate of 1.3 percent, the population is doubling every twenty-six years. ... With the world's population doubling, on average every twenty- six years, it is difficult for the earth to supply the resources that humans need and use everyday. ... Due to the soil lacking the minerals that is needed to grow crops, people have a hard producing enough to feed their families and to still have enough left over to sell and gain income for their families. ... In order to minimize families, 91 percent of married women use some form of birth control. ... In 1999, the average age ...

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Today the average American home has more media-gathering technology than a state-of-the-art newsroom did 10 years ago (Leon, 3). ... As a result, the numbers of families investing in televisions increased. ... The average American 4 to 8 years old will view 250 episodes of war cartoons and 1,000 commercials for war toys this year. ... Similarly, the major television networks have designated a "family hour" in which they air shows with a more family based content, nevertheless after eight p.m. adult based shows can be aired. ...

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In our lives we face many things, like stress, stress from work stress from our families or from health or money. ... For all the correction, judicial and legal and police costs it came up to and average of 78,154$ per imamate so you do the math. ... Most addicts cannot afford from their minimum wage jobs to afford the high price of drugs so they must steal and rob houses or whatever they can get, even robbing family members. ...

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During these years the government reduced welfare assistance to families to a temporary basis and cut back billions of federal aid that they were providing to the system. ... The average welfare and food stamp monthly payments are lower than poverty level; states with low welfare benefits have a higher rate of illegitimacy; and countries with higher level of benefits, such as Canada, have lower illegitimacy rates (Post, J. ... However, the millions of people who left welfare and found jobs are still unable to earn enough to lift their families out of poverty. ... Although our welfare system ...

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Considering the fact that sometimes families of twelve people were crammed into a tiny tenement that was 10" by 10", sickness was so common that one out of every three children born would die by their fifth birthday. A family of four could earn about twenty dollars a month at the most, so money for food was scarce. Because of the capitalist tendencies of the economy tenement owners, shop owners, and executives at places of work were all allowed to exploit the families by giving low wages and having high prices on essential items like food and clothing. ... Robber Barons were white males who w...

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There is also the additional idea of what alcohol can do to families if extensively applied on a regular basis. ... Statistically children are showing maturity at an early age due to the excess responsibilities being placed on them because of today's average family environment. ... It should be the belief that if a person can live on their own, support a family, get a job, go off to war and die for their country at 18 years of age - why can't they purchase a single beverage? ...

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It is estimated that "the average American watches up to 6.75 hours of television daily" The right to free speech has long been considered one of the most fundamental liberties protected by the Constitution. ... Particular concern was paid to children, with 98% of adult respondents saying it was their responsibility to monitor family viewing. ...

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Financial Implications of Longer Life Expectancy It is evident that American seniors make up a large part of the United States' population and that the average life expectancy has increased as it is one of the fastest growing demographic segments of American society today. ... Since the number of elderly and the rate of aging are expected to increase steeply (see chart), it calls for an increase in healthcare providers, therefore greater expenditures (federal and personal) as well as influence much of our social lives regarding family, education, business and government. ... Consider t...

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Many families in India have little choice but to send their children to work. The children help their families live and eat with the wages they bring in. ... On average child laborers are paid half the wage as adults. ... Many families in India are unable to send their children to school due to their lack of money so they send their children off to work to help support the family. ... After a month passed the family expected their son to arrive home, but he did not. ...

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The AAA helped raise the average farm income and helped pushed up the prices of commodities. ... Thousands of tenant and sharecropper families were forced of the land and migrated to California and were called "Okies" They lived in poor living conditions very few of the migrants found work except in low paid agricultural laborers. ... Many farm families were given direct emergency relief by the Resettlement Administration. ...

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Most of the immigrants had to have an income to survive and take care of their families, so when business owners demanded more hours for less pay, they often had no choice sometimes but to accept what they were given without complaint. ... They went from having absolutely no power, while having terrible working conditions, and extremely low wages to receiving a great deal of government control through unions, and reforms in both working conditions as well as receiving a salary increase, resulting in a respectable wage for an average sized family. ...

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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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On average unschoolers test 80 points higher on their SAT's than students who attend public school (Cloud and Morse, 2001, 47-54). ... Each year an average of 4% of the school age children learn at home (Pink, 2001, 31,32). ... Pink furthers his opinion by citing the Family Unschoolers Network as a resource for unschoolers. ...

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