More and more people are beginning to fall below the poverty line. ... Poverty has been an issue in America for a while now, but it does not seem like it. ... "In 2011, 46.2 million people in the US were living in poverty and the nation's official poverty rate was 15 percent, up from 14.3 percent in 2009, according to the US Census Bureau. ... For the most part, schools are extremely careful about how they talk about poverty. ... There are many different ways that we change our culture and fight poverty. ...

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They are considered "unskilled" laborers who never worked hard to break free from the poverty line. ... There is a vicious cycle of poverty that makes things like this hard for poor people. ... The low-wage work and the poverty it creates is essential to the economic success of business. ... For those at the top of the economic food chain, such an attitude further distances them away from poverty. ...

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Has technology shaped our society? When we look back to the mid 1930s, we"ll see that the US was facing a very difficult time. After the gigantic losses on the New York Stock Markets, the economy was on its way to an all time low. The unemployment rates were astronomically high, leading to even w...

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But it semained practically the only one of the period Accounts of travelers, English and foreign, show London to have been dirty and harmful, lacking the common amenities, a city of violent contrast between luxury and elegance and poverty and inglincss, and above all of great disturbances... The big provincial towns were like London but with less wealth and more poverty, more despair, less social order, more disease, but, like London, full of opportunity for men tough temperament, endless vigoure to acquire the modest affluence necessary to enter the demi-paradise of comfort and ease which th...

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Around the 1980s, Flint, a city in Michigan, was in a catastrophe because General Motors" (GM) plant-closings led to the crisis of assembly line workers" layoffs and home evictions. Michael Moore, a former editor of Mother Jones, directed the documentary "Roger and Me" to inform viewers about GM's bad treatment towards assembly line workers. ... The town's condition proves how "poverty really is lower" (357) since people could not afford to live in their homes. ...

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Plot Summary In this visual text, Will Sallis, a 28 year old construction-line worker who lives in the 'Dayton Ghetto' meets Henry Hamilton, a man with more than a century on his arm. ... As a result of this visual text, I have become aware of how lucky I am, the opportunities that are available to me and how much better I have it than millions of people around the globe, living in poverty. ...

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