As employers are forced to increase the amount of wages paid to employees, there has to be a shift of money within the company. ... Doing this frees up significant amounts of money. This leads to less wages paid out overall, with the ability to still pay higher wages to those still employed, due to the shifting of money, as well as less money spent on individuals benefits, such as insurance costs as paid by the business (Wilson, 2012). ... The money needed to pay increased minimum wages has to come from somewhere. ... However this just shows that ultimately the consumer picks up the tab, whic...

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It is arbitrary to raise the age because people who can work to support themselves will make more money if they decide to continue working instead of drawing out Social Security. ... However, the distribution effect with a slow increase in the retirement age would have a regressive impact on the program that is designed to be progressive in terms of money paid in and benefits received. ... This, on the other hand, would cost most lobbyists and politicians more money, and therefore is less widely discussed. ... The other options would expose more income to taxation by increasing payroll taxes...

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Many factors such as poor wages for women and the increase of single-woman parented families have caused an increase in the percentage of women among the poor. ... One way to eliminate these numbers would be to increase the minimum wage. ... They believe that many of the poor just take advantage of the welfare system and look at it as free money. One ignorant view of some better off people is that I had to work hard for my money, they should have to as well. ... In my opinion, welfare money can assist them with this. ...

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There is also an increase in the amount of families whose income is not enough to sufficiently support them. ... This money can be used with any provider of child care, including the families" relatives. ... One finding was that the aid to families with dependant families increases significantly over 30 years. ... Federal funding for child care did increase from 1997 to 2000 at a rate of 250% from $2.5 billion to around $6.5 billion, and state funding has increased by about two thirds, from $1.5 billion to $2.5 billion. ... This money, however, only goes to about 30% of the children who are na...

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It will provide them with better health care, which in turn will increase the average age and decrease the number of people dying from illness and disease. ... Decreasing poverty will improve living conditions and increase income levels. ... Currently, the rich-poor gap only continues to increase. ... Educated people have better jobs, which pay more money. ... In Africa millions of dollars have been given to help improve their poor state, but their poverty rates only continue to increase (Raghaven). ...

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This program does not just focus on providing people with money for food, but allows them enough money to purchase nutritious food for their households as well. ... She worked two jobs but still was not able to provide enough money in order to afford food for my siblings and me. She was able to receive benefits due to the policy and by that was able to have money assistance for food. ... In my experience, receiving benefits from the program allows individuals and families to increase their income by allowing these people to save more money from their jobs, instead of spending the majority of t...

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In the United States, our ability to keep up with the cost of living increases has become more and more difficult. ... That statistic is showing that many are being left without any money. With little money, living begins to be more of a struggle. ... Without it, individuals may receive an increase on their taxes. ... 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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Nobody wants to lose money! ... A unit of input can be land the firm bought, or a new machine it brought in to increase revenues. ... While keeping with an economic view of this issue, it is most apparent in the increased wages of women in recent years. ... He also was great with saving his money. ... So some say that these transfer payments actually increase poverty instead of stop it. ...

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The article describes how low income parents tend to spend less money on early development of their kids. ... This stage that a child learns language, basic motor skill and develop trust, concrete motor skills, time and money. ... From this increase income they also saw an increase in not only school attendance but also school achievement compared to the control group. ... From this article it also shows that when families are provided with income support and employment increase, it improves a child's achievements, although when just provided with employment increase nothing really change...

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Nick Hanaeur says it himself, he has way more money than he even knows to do with.      ... With so much money in your possession, you could own literally anything your heart desires. ... With all the money they have, they have the power to influence way too many national/worldly decisions. ... The low class is too frugal and fragile to spend money on anything past necessities. ... There are of course many other ways to fix our economy including adjusting taxes and providing more securities for Americans, but I found investing in education and increasing wages as the best methods. ...

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Homelessness, which is one of our nation's most serious social problems, has greatly increased over the past ten years. ... Teenage runaways have different reasons for leaving home but all have the same reason for becoming homeless: they simply just do not have enough money. ... According to "Homeless Increasing all over the World" (2005), the number of homeless families with children has increased significantly over the past decade. ... That money is spent on police calls, hospital visits and other emergency social services. ... Moreover, most people end up homeless because they spend th...

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It is commonly believed that the welfare system is comprised of lazy people who want to cheat the government out of money. ... Most also have more money, but a large minority are worse off. ... One big unresolved question is whether popular support for work requirements will lead states to spend more money to help single mothers join the work force. Although this is happening in a few states, many states seem to care more about saving money than increasing the size of the labor force. ... Welfare reform has caused an increase in filings of dependency and neglect and an increase in children ...

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If left without control, human trafficking will continue to spread and grow because there is increasing monetary gains to be made by the criminals involved in this trade at very low risk to them. ... They display high or significant increasing number of victims. 2. They have failed to provide evidence of increasing efforts to combat trafficking in persons, or 3. ...

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Despite of many aids from both government and communities, the rate of homeless people keeps increasing every year. ... Since homeless people are those with lack of money, they receive negative view from the society. ... In the fact, the rate of people having been on the street for years is increasing. ... The increasing rate of homeless people on the street causes unstable lives in local areas. ... It is because the money that used to pay for the food comes from those food stamps. ...

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In recent years, the world is experiencing an exponentially increasing population. ... The low-income groups would have to save money for a longer period of time. However, during this period, the price of the flat would still increase, which caused their heavier burden. ... As for resolutions, I think HDB should increase the price of public housing for those who plan to buy a second or third house in order to prevent rich people from speculating, while the resale price of the flats should decrease thus people would be deterred from the idea of buying and then selling it for earning money. ......

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This problem has been increasing in America as many families live paycheck to paycheck, and a serious injury or illness can cripple any savings they might have had. ... The expansion of Medicaid has led to a significant increase in coverage and improved access to care for homeless individuals. ... In addition, the expansion has provided increased funding which has allowed for staffing increases, and changes in staffing roles. These changes have provided the health care providers with an increase ability to meet the needs of the homeless population. ... If an individual is eligible for Med...

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They suggest increased patterns of inequality are "red herrings". ... Secondly, they had less money to spend on things that would get them ahead, such as education. ... Healthcare is now a commodity with costs increasing annually. ... The consequence of increased childcare costs results in a drain on household budgets. ... The increased reliance on loans has put...

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The most effective ways of reducing poverty includes government action to increase jobs, removing social barriers, and improving education for children. ... Those at the bottom of the society are not given enough money to live on. ... Helping these farmers protect themselves against the droughts will lead to higher earnings for these farmers in the long term, thus reducing poverty and increasing the amount of food available for the people. ... In doing so, the farmers tend to save a lot more money, sending the corn to local feedlots instead of the places that send the food to the hungry. ... ...

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This loss of organic matter in the land results in runoff after rainfall and increased runoff and rainfall allows for flooding. ... Those who do own a small plot of land for farming their own land still need money to do so. In order to care for the land for the benefit of food production a farmer needs tools as well as other materials and resources, all items that cost money. "Adequate nourishment for a family depends upon its ability either to produce enough food for its own needs or to earn enough money to buy the food-or some combination of the two. ... The solution to ending world hunger...

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Lack of money, which is the main resource in an economy make needs more insistent and pressing (Annie, 2004). ... Experiments done by the researchers showed that the scarcity of resources led to people not being ready to lend money away. ... Instead, they increased their borrowing about their remaining budget. ... Interventions that will draw an individual's attention in the economy to specific future needs should be particularly effective increasing their savings. ... Interventions that will draw the attention of people in the economy to specific future needs should be particularly eff...

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The more 'developed' a country is, the more money it is capable of making. ... Recent occurrence of child brides in Syrian refugees camps, who have flown to Lebanon in hope for a new beginning, in return a large increase of child brides.The occurrence of these activities has had the UN looking at their set of laws and if there is anything to benefit these child brides? ... " In Nigeria the 1990's the data show that the girl to boy ratio of primary, secondary and tertiary education was at a 79% so 79% of girls would get the opportunity to experience some form of education, ...

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There are many simple, easy and realistic ways to save money. ... Another easy way to save money is with coffee. ... It is evident that bottled water and purchasing instantly made coffee is a waste of money. ... " (Singer 29) He explains that money regenerates itself; the economy can produce more money. Therefore, when people, such as entrepreneurs, become rich, they are simply increasing their own capital, not stealing the poor's money. ...

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Indirectly however, there has been an increase in the amount of urban slums on the planet due to our worlds decreasing economy. ... Globalization has many positive aspects, but in this case it can be seen as the cause for the increase in urban slums and the rise of the violence within them. ... I personally was totally against any kind of immigration into the United States from Mexico knowing the husbands on an American work visa were sending money back to their families; in other words they were taking money out of the US economy and putting it straight into Mexico's. ...

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Another personal cause we should consider is problems with interpersonal relationships such as, being separated or divorced, their significant other being deceased, and serving jail time or time in a hospital, basically, being removed from the person helping them with food and/or money. Structural causes of homelessness relate to how society is organized and distributed, there are several events that contribute to the huge increase of homeless people. ... The decline of low income housing and the increase of rent play a huge role in homelessness. ... So to break this down it means that 5...

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Such result can be observed through the reduction in poverty rate and increase in life expectancy. ... Agriculture production becomes more diversified and food production increases from 19.5 million tons in 1988 to 39.5 million tons in 2005. ... "An estimated 2 million Vietnamese [who] are now living the United States, France, Canada, and other countries [sending money to their families in Vietnam]," according to William Alpert (155). Based on the data that I find from World Bank, remittances are steadily increased from 2000 to 2008. ... The increasing numbers of vaccinations have be...

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