As I read the lesson this week on social class, which according to Weber is a large group of people who rank closely to one another in terms of property, prestige, and power, I read that the poverty line for a family of four in America is about $22,000. ... While researching the topic of poverty I learned that the city of Philadelphia has one of the highest rates of deep poverty. Also Mariana Chilton, poverty expert at Drexel University, stated a very important fact about those living in poverty she explains some of the consequences about those living with in the poverty line, "toxic stress, ...

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From a relatively small population, the community has recently grown to roughly 22 million people, of which many are below the poverty line. ... It is estimated that 72 percent of the 22 million inhabitants of Madagascar live below the national poverty line. ... When comparing urban areas to rural areas, it has been calculated that 76 percent of people in rural areas are below the poverty line and 52 percent of people living in the urbanized areas of the island are below the national poverty line. ... Income Distribution The income distribution in Madagascar is not equally divided throughout t...

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Poverty is very much a world issue. For example in Sierra Leone, an extremely poor African nation, 68% of its population lives below the poverty line (The Poorest). In Latin America, Colombia has 55% of its population living below the poverty line (The Poorest). And in Asia, where in 1996 Asia accounted for over two-thirds of the world's 1.3 billion poorest people (Encarta), the country of Cambodia, which is the fifth poorest country in the world, has 36% of its population living below the poverty line (The Poorest). ... Poverty can produce feelings of frustration, hopelessness, and a ...

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The international income poverty level was determined by the World Bank and according to this measure, any person who lives on an income below US$1.25 per day is said to live below the poverty line. ... However the national poverty line is set at Birr at 3841 annually for Ethiopia. ... How can poverty be reduced then? To know the solution to the problem of poverty, the cause of poverty should be identified first. Poverty is caused by several factors: First, the poor cannot save and invest to get move income and come out of poverty. ...

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A huge issue in America is deep poverty. ... Philadelphia has the highest rate of deep poverty. ... While people just below the poverty line often escape poverty, people in deep poverty tend to stay in deep poverty. ... The other problem is that some of these people in deep poverty have kids. ... How does this have to do with deep poverty? ...

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Over the years poverty has been a problem that has affected the third world countries. ... Poverty occurs in most parts of the world. ... What is Poverty? ... Inferiority; inequality; scarcity; are all known as poverty. ... And also accompanied by Hernan Cortez, Francisco Pizarro, destroyed the civilization, and what is now Peru and other countries are almost on the line of poverty. ...

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Poverty In America For centuries many people in the US or abroad have dealt with and are forced to live life in poverty. ... Poverty affects all aspects of life on an individual. There are different types of poverty that exist. ... The poverty line is the level of income below, which the income of the household or individual is inadequate to meet the essential needs of the household or individual as determined by society. ... Poverty levels in the central city are at 18.5% and outside the city poverty levels are at 14.4%. ...

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Abramsky's The American Way of Poverty was well researched and presented new ideas about the current state of poverty by redefining what it is to be poor. ... Native Poverty and the Labor Market. ... This read was very helpful to me because Card discussed another point of view that I had not considered and that is outside of the governments lack of support, impoverished people are stuck in the same self-perpetuating cycle that keeps them below the poverty line. ... Census Bureau Shows More People Living in Areas of Poverty. ... Kiviat gives and clear picture as to how the poverty line w...

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Poverty in South Africa The statistics on poverty in South Africa are alarming. ... Fifty three percent of the South African population lives below the poverty line, with forty five percent being children below the age of 16. The effects of poverty in South Africa can be seen throughout the country with no one being sheltered from it. ... The extreme poverty in South Africa makes it very diverse. ... Until there is a unified outcry to correct this crippling situation, South Africa will remain poverty stricken and forever divided....

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Poverty is the lack of money, need or scarcity. Poverty in the United States is a well-known thing. ... With the United States reaching higher poverty levels by the year, there have been many efforts to prevent poverty. ... Some of the states with the highest poverty rates are Mississippi with a 21.2% poverty rate, D.C. with a 18.5% poverty rate, New Mexico with a 18.4% poverty rate, Louisiana with a 18.1% poverty rate, and Arkansas with a 18.0% poverty rate (Bloch 1). ... A cause of this trend is the U.S. policy makers increasingly ignoring the needs of those under the line of poverty. ...

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Poverty cannot be removed from the world. ... Poverty reduction has been a very long and hard battle. ... If efforts are increased in agricultural productivity by providing tax free equipments, seeds and fertilizers to small farmers, they can be dragged above the line of poverty. ... Surely this will not erase poverty from the world map but it will eventually contribute towards a decrease in poverty rate and other social conflicts. ... A lot of efforts have been made to bring people out of poverty. ...

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Through his note "Poverty and Economic Growth: Has Trickle Down Petered Out?... Consequently, as for policy implication, TAL claim that the fight against poverty will need expanded programs directed specifically at poor families. ... The first serious weakness of the TAL model is the use of a dependent variable measuring the absolute change in the incidence of poverty instead of one measuring changes in poverty relative to its base. Once the lower end of the income distribution is not uniformly distributed, even a constant trickle down effect, which brings about equal dollar increases in all f...

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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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Both of these children are clearly affected by living in poverty. ... The most important ideas you would have to understand in order to understand the video's line of reasoning is, it is not the children's fault that they are living in poverty. ... If people take the video's line of reasoning seriously, than children living in poverty can possibly go to school and have a future. ... Today one in five children lives in poverty. Nearly, half of kids with a single mom live in poverty. ...

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" In agreement with this great man we negate the following resolution: On balance, economic globalization helps reduce world poverty. ... Contention 2: Economic globalization exacerbates poverty in the long run. The pro might attempt to assert that economic globalization has many benefits and can help reduce poverty. However, economic globalization almost invariably has negative long term effects on poverty worldwide. ... In countries such as India, China, and the Philippines, small farmers comprise over 30% of the national workforce and over 50% of the nation's population living und...

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Completely eliminating all social-welfare is not the lone solution in reducing poverty. ... What exactly are the causes of poverty? ... Blacks and Hispanics suffer higher rates of poverty than whites and Asians. The poverty rate for Blacks in 1998 was 26.1 percent and the rate for Hispanics was 25.6 percent (Almanac of Policy Issues: Poverty). ... This way those who line under these poor conditions will gain some initiative to help themselves as well as the community....

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So our ambition is - by the end of the next decade - child poverty reduced by half - on our way to ending child poverty within twenty years... Poverty here is defined as having net household income below 60% of the median income, after housing cost. ... The reason that overall poverty doesn't fall so much is that poverty rises among children in working households. ... Raising these working poor children out of poverty may not be such an impossible feat since many of them are likely to be quite close to the poverty line. ... Child poverty is a scare on Britain's soul. ...

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Did you know a couple of years ago in the Philippines a little over half of the country's population was living below the poverty line? ... In the Philippines it is said that if you are not consuming a basket of food with 2,016 calories and 50 grams of protein per day it is considered that you are living under the poverty line. In 1988 the poverty line for a family of 6, it was estimated that P$2,709 pesos a month which now calculates to US$54.18. In 1985 a little more that half of the countries population was living below the poverty line, also in 1971 the same thing reoccurred. ... The ...

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Is poverty pre-ordained? ... Any married couple working full time at minimum wage would earn more then double the amount stated as the poverty line. Even with two children they would be above the poverty line. ... Would anybody be surprised that poverty is one result of drug usage? What is the secret for avoiding poverty? ...

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A poverty line is set, and this line is an average income amount that is set to show how much it would cost to support a given family. The poverty line in this example for a four-person family is $20,000 a year. ... It's her laziness that keeps her family in poverty. ... The cause of poverty is not a limit on jobs or money. ...

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Both of these groups were suffering in great poverty, and poor working and living conditions. ... Poverty was definitely an issue for the Okies as well as the present day migrant farm workers. ... This is, for sure, part of the 3/5 of farmers below poverty line (www.ccer.org/migrant/homemig.htm). ... This great poverty in both situations was very similar. ... Along with the poverty and poor working conditions comes the extremely horrible living conditions. ...

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People become trapped in this perpetual cycle of poverty that leads to poverty and homelessness. ... The continual cycle of poverty that leads to homelessness is very hard to break. ... These cannot be people that are just labeled and cast to the back of the line. ... There is no way you can argue that the poverty situation is the fault of these 47 million individual children who are experiencing poverty as a result of deviant behavior. ... The line that separates some from a life on the streets is all too often a very tenuous one. ...

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Maltreatment, poverty and foster care all have effects on a child's physical, cognitive, social and emotional development. ... Children in Poverty Poverty percentages are increasing every year, impacting our largest population and most vulnerable group, children. ... Children are greatly hurt by poverty in a few ways. ... Families that live under the poverty line have children that are 1.3 times more likely to have developmental problems than those that live over the poverty line (Children, 3). Poverty is at its highest right now due to the poor economy we live in. ...

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Blake sees "every Infant's cry of fear" and is disgusted by it (line 6). ... The fact that the children of London are in misery and poverty makes the upper class, the church and the monarchy even richer. ... Most likely, these girls were abandoned by their families because of poverty, death or both. ... The men that did come back were sick, wounded, tired and poverty stricken. ... He sees "every face" (line 3), feels "every cry" (line 5), and hears "In every voice...The mind-forged manacles" (line 7-8). ...

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Experts note that welfare has done little to stem the growth of poverty among children. In all but two states, welfare benefits (including food stamps) are insufficient to move a family above the poverty line. ... - It has done little to reduce poverty, especially among children. ... The goal of welfare reform programs should be to reduce poverty among families with children. ... Otherwise programs will succeed only in moving families of the roads, not in helping them escape poverty or improve their children's chance for a brighter future. ...

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