The people that are in poverty come in many races, ages, and sexes in all different regions. ... Age is a fairly big factor on the average poverty levels in America. ... Middle-aged people have poverty levels just over the elderly. ... Right now the number is 34.5 million people in poverty, so it will be hard to eliminate poverty completely, especially when you take into consideration the fact that the number of people in emergency shelters in New York City has gone from 1000 families in 1980, to 10,000 families in the year 2000. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

This was a highly mechanized, industrial age in which people's roles were being determined by their merit, talents, character and grit'. ... The genesis of the Episcopacy at the end of the 19th century represented the merger of what appeared to be an irreconcilable conflict between two rival elite groups: the old pre-industrial New England - based on upper-class norms, with its high-minded, non-urban mores, and the big, rough New York based - Gilded Age rich. ... Floyd Hunter saw power as a pyramid with a small number of top leaders at the peak, a somewhat larger number below [middl...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Middle class gamblers are lured to casinos by free food. ... In 1980, a math genius named Jess Marcum calculated that a craps player who made just a one dollar bet every bet for two months straight would have a one in two trillion chance of winning $1000 before losing $1000. ...

• Word Count: 2787
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• Grade Level: High School