Providing these critical services, such as cash benefits to families who are working at low paying jobs ensures that they continue working and that they do not return to welfare. ... Even though more welfare recipients are becoming self-sufficient through work, many of them return to welfare sporadically, until their time limit is up, or they are forced to take low paying jobs, due to a lack of education and work experience. ... Because many welfare recipients may not have more than a high school education, they are forced to take low paying jobs that are traditionally geared toward people wi...

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Over the last century, Canadian women have increasingly participated in paid employment; however, women continue to struggle for equal opportunities such as job advancement and pay equality. ... Women are faced with oppression with regards to pay equality, career advancement and equitable treatment. ... They point out that occupations perceived as "women's jobs" have been underpaid compared with "men's jobs" because of a historical undervaluing of women's skills and work. ... Recent studies show that the more children a woman has, the lower her hourly pay. ...

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(Page 10) Staying with the topic that over population and poverty combined causes social problems such as scarce jobs and resources for people but only that overpopulation is responsible for the conditions, which contribute to the overall lowering of the quality of life of human beings in society. ... In today's society, people get married at a later age because they have to keep working to obtain income that is needed to help pay for their necessities. ... In both the United States and Third World countries poor young males in particular are frequently forced to choose between a life of ...

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He hypotheses that blacks experience an enormous amount of racial discrimination that often times prevents them from getting a certain job or being promoted in a job they have. He also states that the location of the jobs is a big factor. ... He says the jobs that do develop in the urban areas either demand high levels of education or are extremely low paying and the person would be better off staying on public assistance. Venkatesh also claims that there is adequate job advertising in these neighborhoods. ... Most respondents felt the whites had an unfair advantage when it came to acquiring j...

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Poverty also includes not having a job, fearing the future, not being able to receive an education, and not being able to see a doctor when a person is sick. ... Some families may even live in a motel because it is cheaper than having to pay for an apartment or paying off mortgage for a house. ... It is very difficult to be hired for a job with just a high school education, and what happens if a child has no education at all. ...

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Thus, jobs as drug dealers are not stable, sometimes low paying, and are very dangerous compared to legal jobs, which are stable, and there are no risks involved. ... Caesar also had problems when he was employed at various legal jobs. ...

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Bhutan is a small landlord country nestled in between China in the north and India in the south.The nation is well known to the rest of the world due to the philosophy of Gross National Happiness which was introduced by His Majesty the 4th Druk Gyalpo King Jigme Singye Wangchuck in the year 1972 wit...

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Introduction A common contemporary feature across many affluent countries with highly developed economies is the persistence of urban underclass neighborhoods. This phenomenon presents many national and local characteristics, nonetheless a number of common salient features can be pointed out: high unemployment, substance abuse and dependency, widespread delinquency with high incidence of violent crime, low public trust, ethnic polarization, social exclusion, higher than average mortality and morbidity rates, lack of educational qualifications, high rates of teenage pregnancy and single parent ...

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