As individuals and as a nation, we pride ourselves in helping 4 others. ... Apartment and motel dumpsters galore, recycling centers, two "cheap" liquor stores, nice grocery stores, fast food dumpsters, a floppy motel, and some great hiding places. ... He suggests " we ignore sign holders and report panhandlers to business owners, require fast food vendors to keep dumpsters locked (those big green piggybanks that hold the key to Pandora's box), and stake out liquor stores that are breaking the law by selling booze to known street drunks." ... This is increasingly true in families from...

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Hardin also provides statistics that the rate of increased population in undeveloped nations is more than two times the rate of the developed nations to indicate the effect of this huge proportion will be a greater difference in living condition between the rich and the poor. Hardin points out that the undeveloped nations cannot improve their ability to prevent emergencies and overcome difficulties after disasters if they know they always can get help from other parties, especially when the population grows faster than it used to be. ... As an example, the World Food Bank, which is a food stor...

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Low-income areas are often called "food deserts", or regions in which access to fresh food is difficult. ... In low socioeconomic communities fast food establishments are of greater accessibility, especially near schools (Fleischhacker et al., 2011; Larson et al., 2009; Simon et al., 2008). ... Research Question Are those with a low socioeconomic status easy targets for fast food companies to provide a cheap unhealthy product, simultaneously diminishing their health levels and promoting obesity, in order to derive a larger profit? ... Obesity is a pressing issue tearing our nation d...

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Thomas Freidman, who won two Pulitzer Prizes for his writings on foreign policy, sums up globalization a little more clearer than I, when he states, "The inexorable integration of markets, nation-states, and technologies to a degree never witnessed before-in a way that is enabling individuals, corporations and nation-states to reach around the world farther, faster, deeper and cheaper than ever before the spread of free-market capitalism to virtually every country in the world" (Friedman p. 7-8). ... This idea is exemplified by the spread of fast food industries i.e. ... Countries that have pr...

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All over the world, disparities between the rich and poor, even in the wealthiest of nations is rising sharply. ... What does it mean to describe a nation as "developing"? ... The economy has been a major influence on the levels of poverty in our nation. ... Real wages and productivity decreased, and the economy could not grow fast enough to absorb the large number of potential workers, which caused unemployment to increase (Katz: 1989, 154). ... Programs such as Social Security, Food stamps, housing assistance are safety nets that has helped lower the high risk of poverty. ...

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All over the world, disparities between the rich and poor, even in the wealthiest of nations is rising sharply. ... What does it mean to describe a nation as "developing"? ... The economy has been a major influence on the levels of poverty in our nation. ... Real wages and productivity decreased, and the economy could not grow fast enough to absorb the large number of potential workers, which caused unemployment to increase (Katz: 1989, 154). ... Programs such as Social Security, Food stamps, housing assistance are safety nets that has helped lower the high risk of poverty. ...

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Excluding during the time of the Great Depression, women and children have never before been on our nation's streets in such significant numbers. ... As a result, the nation's population of homeless families swelled from almost minor numbers to nearly 1.4 million. ... Families are the fastest growing segment of the homeless population, accounting for almost 40 percent of the nation's homeless. (3) What still confounds many Americans, however is why homeless appears to have become an unchallengeable socio-economic condition in this nation, such that our children may not know an A...

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If that sort of impact would be felt after a $2.50 increase, imagine the devastation be that would follow a raise to the $15.00 per hour, as many across the nation are not simply requesting, but rather demanding an increase to. ... Mark Wilson's report found that with a 10% increase in the federal minimum wage, food prices in stores would rise roughly 4%. ... A study conducted in 2011 found roughly 2/3 of fast food chain restaurants offset the cost of new minimum wages, with increased meal prices. ...

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