I will compare the World Bank recommendations on female education from their 2007 Symposium on LDCs with the social realities of urban underclass neighborhoods as described by Edin and Kefalas in their book "Promises I can Keep" (2005). ... Their book represents a conscious attempt to report the typical opinions and thought processes of the real life subjects of living conditions in the urban underclass neighborhoods. ... They have better knowledge on how to prevent various illnesses (HIV, malaria, diabetes, etc.). ...

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According to the book Social Problems: Community, Policy, and Social Action, a social problem is be defined as "a social condition that has negative consequences for individuals, our social world, or our physical world" (Leon-Guerrero, 2015). ... According to the article America's Youngest Outcasts: A Report Card on Child Homelessness, some of the major causes of homelessness for children living in the United States include single parenting, lack of affordable housing, racial disparities, and the nation's high poverty rate (Bassuk, et. al, 2014). ... Because a child is star...

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Baumohl declares in his book Homelessness in America "The lives of all people, disabled or not, are embedded in circumstances shaped as much by structural factors as personal and biographical ones" ( 26). ... Baumohl states in his book Homeless in America that "According to this perspective, people were homeless because something was wrong with them- (25). ... Judging from the review of reports received, it appears that those in vulnerable economic situations, upon receiving an economic jolt, in the absence of "social margins" (savings, relatives, extended family, friends.) become homeless. A...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate