There could be several reasons why there is an increase of those giving birth to only one child. In older days it was known that women would stay home and raise the children as the men go out and make the money. ... However, "where birth rates have failed to decrease and in some cases have actually increased, has been among the poor, and especially among the inner-city welfare poor" (Widdison p209). ... A reason sometimes the poor have more children than the young adults with money is because of their financial status. If you have less money you are not going to run out and buy a box of condom...

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States are to disburse the money as they see fit to welfare recipients. ... "Currently, only about 50% (fifty percent) of the federal block grant money is used for cash disbursements. ... Being employed will help the welfare-to-work recipients, as well as our economy; hence, less money paid out to the TANF program, over time, may mean fewer taxes to be paid by taxpayers. ... From the time when the welfare reform was adopted and benefits were cut, states now do not receive an adequate amount of money to use for job training and educational purposes. ...

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The word " generically" presents that the workers can't rise in the world because they have no education and have not enough money to make their lives better and comfortable. ... The contrast between Slackbridge and Stephen" characters increase the sympathy to Stephen Blackpool. ... In materialistic world, money is the most important thing that is used to rise in the world. ... Every activity in daily life requires money, so the poor can't survive in the materialistic world. ... She increases his burden, so he doesn't want to come back to his house. ...

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I found that 1) upward social mobility is more likely for a white individual than a black individual 2) upward social mobility among the lower classes is decreasing and downward social mobility is increasing 3) upward social mobility does increase the higher the person starts on the social ladder. ... On the other hand politicians who question the existence of equal opportunity for all often favor legislation to increase public assistance to the needy. ... of downward social mobility is increasing and the frequency of upward mobility (from the lower classes) is decreasing. ... The more money y...

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It is true that the 90s coincide with weak growth, high rates of unemployment and the decrease of the "pouvoir d'achat- and even an increase of the gap between rich and poor but we can't prove that the inequalities are due to globalisation. ... But even if that is true, when the incomes of the very poor first start growing at a faster rate than rich countries' incomes, the absolute (dollar) increases in incomes of the poor will still be smaller for many years than the absolute increases for the rich, even though the relative gap is closing. ... The increase of liberalisation, d...

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One day as I was driving to my sister's house in Ravenswood, I saw an elderly man standing at the end of the off-ramp. The gentleman was holding a sign that read: "Homeless will work for food. God Bless."" As I rolled to a stop, I rolled down my window and offered him my last five dollars. To m...

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Humanity has evolved in a male-centered, patriarchal society. Historically, men were always the main suppliers of food and money. Women were the ones who had a duty to look after the home and raise the children. Women were financially dependent on men and lost their financial support as a consequenc...

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I feel that greedy people who's only interest is to make money exploit us from things that were given to us for free, like water. ... Let's get serious, while people are starving around the world all you hear about is how the overweight rate in America is increasing. If we ate like humans instead of animals, maybe all that money that goes to researching and purchasing all these weight loss pills, gels, and meals it could go to helping the hungry and poverty-stricken people around the world. ... It is not because the husband was not making enough money, but because it was what she w...

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Philippe Bourgois's In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio has shown a great deal of commitment to the work that was involved in completing his research on poverty and marginalization. The field of study on poverty and marginalization by Philippe Bourgois was only twenty blocks from the area in Manhattan's Upper East Side known as East Harlem. However, those twenty blocks between the Upper East Side and the Puerto Rican population of East Harlem represent a social and an economic gap extending from mainstream to marginal. There are two dominant themes that play an importa...

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