In these cities many families face a shortage of entry-level jobs, poverty-ridden neighborhoods where education and work experience is limited, and poor mass transportation to the suburbs, where jobs seem to be more abundant. ... He said, "The best antipoverty program is still a job." ... More single mothers have jobs. ... These jobs do not allow families to bring home paychecks that will bring them over the poverty level. ... Most of them cannot pay for child-care and therefore they are left unattended. ...

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They have been kicked out of their houses and apartments because they can't afford rent due to their low paying jobs. ... When they do find work, their new jobs pay, on average, thirteen percent less than the job they lost. ... Ann Braden Johnson argues this point in her book Out of Bedlam: The Truth About Deinstitutionalization, "the homeless people who do work tend to be eligible only for non-skilled, low-paying jobs- jobs that often do not pay enough for rent" ("Introduction"). ... Only a small fraction of welfare recipients' new jobs pay above-poverty wages. ... Only a concerted...

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Raising the minimum wage would result in increased wages and decreased jobs. ... Since the early days of an implemented minimum wage, job loss has occurred. ... Our job market is being torched" (Wilson, 2012, p. 07). ... With the American economy the way that it currently is, minimum wage jobs, kept at a lower pay rate, are essential to the stability of the workforce and economy. ... By increasing the minimum wage, jobs become eliminated. ...

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This would bring thousands of jobs back to the US along with revenue. ... Many did not even pay the legal minimum wage. ... Since these factories came it has brought new jobs for the people. ... The truth is sweatshops have terrible conditions and not very good pay. Yet we forget the thousands of people who work other jobs that pay less and are in the sun all day. ...

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This caused people to search for minimum wage jobs. ... Without an education, getting a high-end job can be very difficult. That is why so many adults have had to work their minimum wage jobs, and try to earn the pay needed because they aren't able to pay to go to post-secondary school. ... Unfortunately, there are many people that work minimum wage jobs. ... Many people try to find jobs, but many of the available jobs are the ones that pay minimum wage or less without a college education. ...

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The attempt by the federal government and state was found only beneficial to certain minimum waged paying employees and was unsuccessful to the goal of reducing poverty proving to be a poor system. ... One of the major key reasons behind this collection of data was due that majority of the poor do not even have a job in the first place rendering them ineligible for the benefits of pay increase, the statistical data found in this analysis reports to be far greater than expected reaching over 54 percent of the poor ( Sabia and Nielsen, 2012). ... By increasing minimum wage unemployment rates in...

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There is also the problem with job segregation, "Women are less likely than men to fill socially rewarding, high paying jobs, 46 percent of all working women are employed in service and administrative support jobs such as secretaries, waitresses and health aids. In the United States and Canada, the extent of job segregation in the lowest-paying occupations is increasing" "(Pg. 75). If women are not given the opportunity to have a high paying job and forced to do the "leftovers"" they have little chance to be independent. ... When a woman has limited options, prostitution is an easy way to make...

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Education levels are not as high in urban areas, which means that the people who are living in these areas are not qualified for the high paying jobs. ... Higher standard of living also attracts immigrants, which makes it hard for people living in urban areas to find good paying jobs, because the immigrants will work for lower wages. ... This results in employers paying their employees lower wages, and giving them the least amount of benefits possible. ... To start to reach a solution to this problem, I think that there should be more opportunities for those who are not able to receive the p...

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Education levels are not as high in urban areas, which means that the people who are living in these areas are not qualified for the high paying jobs. ... Higher standard of living also attracts immigrants, which makes it hard for people living in urban areas to find good paying jobs, because the immigrants will work for lower wages. ... This results in employers paying their employees lower wages, and giving them the least amount of benefits possible. ... To start to reach a solution to this problem, I think that there should be more opportunities for those who are not able to receive the p...

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You are have to pay taxes and that money goes to the government, so that means that the money is the government's and that they can do what they choose with it. ... That is far from the truth, some of the so-called "lazy" people do have jobs, but most are stuck with low-paying jobs. Yet these people with the low-paying jobs have troubles supporting themselves because of how little that they make, but they still try to benefit all that they can to our society. ... Medicare is there for people who don't have insurance or money to pay the hospital in case of emergencies. ... People in n...

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The high-tech industry has created many new jobs paying high salaries, resulting in a decline in job opportunities for low-skilled workers. ... Transportation has also become a barrier to employment because low-income workers have limited resources to get to those higher paying entry-level positions in the suburbs where the job growth is most rapid. ... An average American family pays 7% of income to childcare, as opposed to the 25% paid by low-income families. ... It is nearly impossible to get a job without having a permanent residence, address, and phone number. Getting a permanent addre...

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I agree that the government should not have the right to decide how the income of such a large amount of people is spent and that more jobs should be created for those near the poverty line to have a stable economy and a happier society (Turner & Turner, 25). ... Policy makers must pay close attention to this gap because as stated in the article, if the income inequality rises, it creates economic, social and political challenges. ... The government provides services like OSAP to help students pay for their education and allows them to repay their loan when they are capable of going into the w...

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(Drug Sense) "The government seemed committed to ensuring that every American could obtain and keep a job.... Nearly one in five homeless people work, but fail to earn enough money to pay for housing. In a booming economy job stability and job securities have deteriorated and have made it harder especially for minimum wage workers to keep housing. Minimum wage jobs does not provide enough income to pay for housing. ... Anything could happen that would put you one pay check from being in a homeless persons shoes. ...

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TANF's main job is to provide grants to state-designed programs for families that have children. ... CCDBG also provides grants to states, which are to be used to help pay for part or all of the child care expenses for low income families. ... Parents can't afford to pay child care, so the state or government pays for it. However, what the state and/or government is paying is low and this causes the child care center to be understaffed or to have unqualified staff, and to have poor or inadequate facilities. ... Part of the reason for the recent trend towards more financing of childca...

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A firm will never pay more for an additional unit of input, whether it is a person or machine that will not increase their profits. ... This pay gap between the genders is slightly more prevalent in the United States than most other countries. ... Some say that it is merely due to the fact that Mexicans are relatively uneducated or not educated enough to fill the more high paying jobs in the market place. ... It must also be brought up that maybe these minority groups simply do not take certain jobs due to nonpecuniary job characteristics. ... An example would be a lot of women would not t...

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Most of us can agree that America has a strong economy, jobs are available so why doesn't the "American Dream" work for everybody? ... Whether people who exit or are terminated from welfare have jobs, whether those jobs enable them to afford housing, whether they have quality child care, whether they are homeless or hungry - these factors do not appear to be important measures to the President or Congress alike. (8) The largest cash assistance program for poor families with children was the Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) until its repeal in August of 1996. ... Liebow goes ...

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Hispanics that work minimum paying jobs are endangered when they have children because they are responsible for financially taking care of another life. ... Some may argue that there are people who have an associates or bachelor's degree but are working minimum wage jobs and cannot find a higher paying job. ... In the beginning, job searching may be difficult, depending on the field of work. ... Job employers do not always take in to consideration the college or university. ... Beyond public education, low income Hispanic families struggle financially, which prevents them from paying for ...

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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. India is currently investing in renewable energy projects in order to create jobs along with providing clean energy for the country. The investment of $7.9 billion into this project will create many much needed jobs for the unskilled workers (Jaiswal). ... Because there are not as many available jobs as there are potential workers, the employers force the currently employed to take very little pay or they get fired. ... Doing so will ensure th...

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Well, if it's people discriminate and pay low monthly salaries to these citizens, their poverty rate will increase and soon the whole nation will be effected by it. The only people that have well-paying jobs are the higher class or the minority. ... While the rich and privileged have steady jobs and comfort. ... "The privileged use all sorts if powers-dispossession, police excesses, denial of jobs or water- to intimidate their inferiors." ... Even though they think it isn't apartheid, there are still those is poverty because they don't have steady , well paying jobs. ...

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Keep in mind that it is necessary for people to retire and open jobs for new workers. ... The program is expected to pay out more this year than it is taking in because of the weak economy. According to a report from trustees, Social Security will be able to pay full benefits through 2037. Without any changes in the program, collected taxes will pay 75% of benefits through 2083. ... Social Security can pay full benefits through 2037 without any changes; than 75% through 2083. ...

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The loss of benefits and the reduction in number of jobs available for low skilled workers is the unavoidable result of living wage legislation. ... That limit is directly tied to the amount of wages he can afford to pay (Keynes 1964). In other words, the more wages an employer pays, the fewer number of employees he can hire. ... Low skilled workers will have a tough time finding jobs if wages are artificially increased. ... The intent of helping single low-income families is all but lost by the potential for displacement, losing of other federal benefits, and the chance of elimination ...

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Some say that it is because these people are just too lazy to get up off their bums and find a job, since it really doesn't take a whole lot of brain cells to flip burgers at the nearest fast food restaurant. ... Seriously, how can people pay rent if they aren't getting paid? My almost favorite example of structural causes is the decrease in supply of jobs. In the articles that I have read they have stated that 50% of homeless people said that they had experienced a drop in income the year before becoming homeless, and most of them saying it was due to the loss of a job or public ...

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Paying bills for their house, car and credit is an arduous task for them. ... Normal people have to work and pay the tax for the country. ... They will begin to look for jobs in order to earn money for keeping their house and making life more comfortable.... By receiving food stamps, homeless people are allowed to buy food without paying their own money. It is because the money that used to pay for the food comes from those food stamps. ...

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They are engaged and trafficked using trick and pressure and find themselves held in conditions of slavery in a variety of jobs. ... To function, trafficking relies on pay-offs to police, judges and ministers at all levels. ... This man got two women from Guatemalan and he promised them to pay $125 per week. He abused them, threatened them and not pay anything. ... Instead of paying, both husband and wife beat her regularly and pay nothing. ...

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After an individual has an immense gap in his or her employment history and a bad score due to unpaid bills resulting from illness or injury, it becomes quite difficult for him or her to get job again even after the person has fully recovered. ... (Hashemi, 2014).After paying bills health care food, car insurance etc. there is no more money. ... There were no properties for single adults or single parents with children with minimum wage jobs," (Halcrow, 2012)In Sydney, housing costs are even higher. ... Someone could work 3 or 4 jobs but being on a minimum wage isn't going to get th...

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