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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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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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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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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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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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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It's wonderful to go into a place where all you want to do is have a meal or just enjoy some family time at the bowling alley and not come out smelling like smoke. ... This will most likely be done by cutting in half the amount of cigarettes that an average smoker will smoke. ...

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