There is poverty in all nations and these impoverished people make up over one-fifth the world's population. ... Estimates predict the world's population will surpass 9.5 billion by 2050(Stefoff). ... These results are just from lack of food, that value is nearly doubled from death from simple and preventable diseases like the common cold and dehydration from diarrhoea . ... Eighty percent of deforestation results from population growth. ... The population explosion is straining the earth's food, supplies, forests, and oceans. ...

• Word Count: 1710
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Homelessness generally falls into two categories: the literally homeless and the population at risk. The literally homeless groups include all of those living on the streets or in shelters and the population at risk groups include those that are at risk of being literally homeless. ... The population at risk to become homeless usually includes children and adults in institutions and/or children and youth living "doubled up" in conventional dwellings. ... Tuberculosis is highly infectious and common among those in shelters and in the streets and the rate of TB among homeless people is at lea...

• Word Count: 1441
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

This led to a greater gap between the rich and the poor and an increase in the population living below the poverty line. ... However for the poor and the increasing migration to urban areas increased the population under the poverty line and as a result earning a living for these people became a fantasy. ... The poor population within the city walls were increasing, so this is why change had to be brought about. ... Cameron recognises that the greater size of population made for a more complex and stratified social structure; "it led to a need to contain a greater variety of communal buildings...

• Word Count: 1967
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Despite benefits being in place in the Welfare State of the UK for example the poor population is on the increase. ... Bernstein states that in the late 1990s as the economy bloomed, 46% of the non-elderly population in households below 200% of the poverty line experienced food shortages. ... This is relative to home ownership of 78% in the non-poor population. 63% of these were poor-elderly who may have acquired these homes during the previous four decades when they enjoyed degrees of prosperity. ... In the USA a steady decrease in those of the poor population having health insurance has b...

• Word Count: 1993
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Sri Lanka has a population of 20 million and 52 of which are women. ... Sri Lanka boasts having a lower percentage of its population below the official poverty line in comparison to other South Asia countries that is an average of 15.2 percent between the years 2000 and 2009. The most recent computation of poverty, the government of Sri Lanka now claims that the poverty has decreased further to 8.9 percent of the population in 2010 based upon an official poverty line of LKR 3,028 per person per month. ... Between the years of 1978 and 1984, the economic growth rate had doubled to almost 6 perc...

• Word Count: 2077
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Some laws during this time were the Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act of 1949, and the Population Registration Act of 1950 which made racial classification legal. ... Poverty rates among female African led households were 60% which is double that of male headed households. ...

• Word Count: 1660
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School