...According to welfareinfo.org, Welfare in the United States can cover 100% of monthly utility costs and child support for those who qualify. So what is the catch? Every family who does not need the welfare pays for the welfare. Welfare is a vicious cycle that must reform in order to provide benefits for not only those receiving it, but also those providing for it. For starters, the welfare system encourages dependence rather than serving as an opportunity to escape the cycle of poverty. When I was in middle school, I had a teacher who told everyone in the class to rewrite an entire packet of notes. At the end of class, the bell rang, and I proudly pushed my packet to the side of the desk, as I, along with a select few students, had finished...
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...Wage and the Fight to End Multigenerational Poverty Everyday we see poverty stricken people begging for money on the side of the road. Upon seeing them, various thoughts cross our minds: Why do they not go out and get a job? Why are they wasting their time begging for money instead of looking for work? Are they really poor or do they just want to get my money? Are they really going to spend my money buying food or are they just going to buy cigarettes, alcohol, or drugs? Are they just being lazy or can they really not get a job? Though each person’s case is different, many of these people are truly so poor that neither they nor their families can survive without handouts from generous people passing by. There is no accurate or reliable way to tell if these people are genuine in their need, so it is up to the individual as to whether or not they choose to give these people aid. In answer to the ever-present question of why these people do not go out and find jobs is many times quite simple – they simply cannot. In order to get a job, one must have references; however, in order to get references one must have had a good job to provide these references. Also, one must go through the interviewing process before one can acquire a job. This is quite challenging for someone who has no place to shower and no clean clothes to wear. In addition, one must know how to behave and interact in an interview, something that many of those in poverty do not know how to do simply because they have...
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...prominent age group of 60+, the crime rate for ‘No. of crimes per 1000’ is at 99 and the ‘No. of burglaries per 1000’ is at 6, these two figures are quite high considering Dover is a rural/sub-urban area, this can suggest people have a lot of time and less to spend. The prominent age of 60+ can explain why the ‘% 5+ A* -C GCSE’s’ is lowest of all areas at 74%, but it could suggest that the educational facilities are poor. Dover’s housing prices were 2nd highest in the list of areas, I presume the housing prices are set from the elderly who have established (owned) houses for a number of years, this means anyone out-migrating into the area will find it difficult to pay for a mortgage and own a house. To conclude, Dover could fall into a vicious cycle of poverty, unless rebranding occurs to attract more business to the area and more people (residents/tourist), but on the other hand the residents may like the idea that it doesn’t attract large business and tourist. From the results I have acquired, I have come to a conclusion that Dover is in need of rebranding the most. Their prominent age group is 60+, this can suggest that the area doesn’t attract the younger/middle ages that tend to work within the secondary and tertiary industry. This means that the business sector is suffering from deprivation and high vacancy numbers which can lead to deindustrialisation. Although Dover have prominent age group of 60+, the crime rate for ‘No. of crimes per...
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...Economic growth and Small Countries Kathy Brophy ECO204: Principles of Microeconomics November 21, 2010 Phelicia Price Economic growth and Small Countries Economic growth in many countries is a slow bitter process. With disease, current high population numbers, growth in population, limited resources, and much more will limit a small and poor country’s from being able to build capital. The AIDS virus has taken many innocent victims and left others ill and unable to work. The numbers of AIDS victims are large by any standard. I was worried about the virus getting close to home when I learned of its existence in the late 1980’s. Since then I have come across several persons that currently have the virus or have died from the AIDS disease. Healthy individuals are needed to work in order to build product for consumption and exporting. Economic growth through resources will build much needed capital, which will increase a countries wealth in time. The HIV/AIDS pandemic has been most devastating for the smaller uneducated countries around the world. (Case, Fair, & Oster, 2009) The HIV/AIDS pandemic has been the most devastating disease in the world. Forty million were infected with the virus before the year beginning 2006. Twenty-five million people died from aids by the end of 2006. (Case, Fair, & Oster, 2009) “In 2005 alone, 3.1 million people died of AIDS and 4.9 million were newly infected with HIV (Case, Fair, & Oster, 2009)”. These numbers are...
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...Secretariat FS07/05-06 FACT SHEET Causes of Women's Poverty 1. Introduction 1.1 A review of the literature on poverty has indicated that there are clear links between gender and poverty in that more women than men live in poverty. 1 Statistics from the United Nations show that the majority of the 1.5 billion people living on US$1 (HK$7.79)2 a day or less are women.3 There is a consensus among nations that the gap between women and men caught in the cycle of poverty has widened in the past decade, which is now referred to as "the feminization of poverty". In fact, the Platform for Action adopted by the Fourth World Conference on Women, held in Beijing in 1995, identified the eradication of the persistent and increasing burden of poverty on women as one of the 12 critical areas of concern requiring special attention and action by international communities, governments and civil societies. 1.2 There has been an increase in the number of female-headed households due to divorce, widowhood and other reasons. Female-headed households do not have income from male earners and the single mothers have to fulfil both the roles of an earner and a carer. Therefore, these female-headed households bear a higher risk of living in poverty. More importantly, unless the economic status of these women improves, the accompanying problem of child poverty cannot be properly tackled.4 1.3 Poverty is a multi-dimensional problem. While some causes of poverty are common to both men and women, some apply specifically...
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...One of the biggest problems facing modern society and New York City is crime. Many may say that this is due to lack of security/protection, gang activities, drug sales, and gun control. While those arguments might be true, I quite disagree because most of these crimes are committed in order to prove points within communities, while the real reason I believe we are facing mayor crime in today’s society is because of the amount of people that are facing poverty in the city. As New York being one of the most populated cities in the USA with a population of 8,491,079 people, according to the U.S. Census Bureau (nyc.gov), there are many who live on the street and are capable of doing anything in order to survive. As the same time, quickfacts.census.gov...
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...Poverty? How many people actually know the meaning of this word? However, I think is it possible to understand the meaning of poverty even if you have never suffered from it. Poverty is defined as the state of being poor or having the lack of providing material needs or comforts. Living in the United States, many of us do not think about poverty too much. Most people in the United States are above poverty level. They do not think about the less fortunate of America. On the other hand, “more U.S. children live in poverty than in any other developed country (Parrillo 155). I think poverty is blamed either on the individual or the system. Several aspects such as intelligence, family life, and the system of capitalism are the author’s examples as to why poverty exists in the U.S. In addition, he explains methods the government is using to eliminate poverty in the United States. First, intelligence is marked as one of the factors of poverty because people tend to blame the actual person for their poor quality. For example, Richard Herrnstein, who “argued that the poor have a lower intellectual capability than the non-poor, and that they marry other people of low intelligence, thus producing children of low intellectual capacity (Parrillo 157).” The fact is poverty does seem to be an inherited trait and that’s why people tend to think of the poor as lacking the knowledge to qualify and obtain a well paying job. For this reason, people of poor financial conditions receive fewer opportunities...
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...There were many causes of the great depression. That Great Depression was a long lasting time of economical downturn that followed the bull market boom in the 1920’s. The Great Depression of the 1930s was caused by the stock market crash, overproduction all combined with inequality of income. Overproduction made a huge contribution into the downfall of the economy that lead into the great depression. More products were being made than consumers were consuming Average Americans in the 20s were buying household products such as vacuums and other appliances to “ electrify their homes’ so those companies such as ge started to mass produce and then advantulay, over product became a huge economical issue.. As illustrated in Document N, a farmer...
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...Family and child poverty in Canada By Maram Ghadban June 7th 2013 Canada is notorious for being a country of freedom, democracy and diversity. These are our crowning glories that as Canadians, we take pride in. The issues faced by Canadians are not seen or noticed by others. They are invisible. The fabrication of Canada being a country of opportunity is a false attribute to this greatness. The poverty in Canada has increased rather than decreased (Finnie and Sweetman, 2003). It is sufficient to say that Canada, and Ontario in specific, are better off than other countries and provinces. However, this is not the matter at hand; the matter is that the people of Ontario are in a state of poverty. Through this I will discuss the matters of poverty, its effects on family and child poverty in Ontario, and its effects on ethnic minorities. It is creating a vicious cycle that will forever more haunt these children and create discourses that will affect them as they get older. This is a national problem, and is a linchpin for bigger conflicts within this nation, if it is not solved. List of references Ahmed, Zahid Shahab, “Poverty, Family Stress & Parenting” http://www.humiliationstudies.org/documents/AhmedPovertyFamilyStressParenting.pdf, 2005 Covell, Katherine and Howe, R. Brian, “Child Poverty in Canada and the Rights of the Child, Source: Human Rights Quarterly”, Vol. 25, No. 4, Nov., 2003 Charles Michalopoulos and Philip K. Robins “Employment and Child-Care Choices...
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...The Real Issue with Poverty Kris Offerman, a 38 year old mother of two, starts to break into tears. Unable to cling to any strand of hope, she lies there helplessly as she repeats to herself, “It’s like there is no way out.” Once earning wages of $100,000 a year with her husband, Kris now relies on Willow Creek Care Center, waiting for the shipments of food to help feed her family. After losing her job, house, car, and money, Kris Offerman was once a strong member of the middle class of America that got deprived of her once fantastic life. She now lives in an apartment, stuck in the endless cycle of poverty, unable to jump out of the hole she was thrown in. Everyday, millions of people have to struggle through these hardships, yet many are...
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...remained closely affiliated with and influenced by the Macedonian court for the rest of his life. Little is known about his mother, Phaestis; she is also believed to have died when Aristotle was young. Philosophy: Social Issue: ARISTOTLE’S PHILOSOPHY AND THE SOCIAL ISSUE OF POVERTY “Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.” -Aristotle “The rich man’s wealth is his strong city; the destruction of the poor is their poverty.” Poverbs 10:15 KJV. This verse connotes that rich people have their riches to rely on by that means denying the Glory of God in their lives. And the poor have no such reliance but if they don’t trust God through their hardship, these rich and poor people will be destroyed through criminality. Being without things, having little money, not many material possessions and in need of essential goods, these would describe poverty. Poverty is the highly problematic issue here in the Philippines. With this, the government should know the pulse of the people in order to eradicate poverty. But if this government don’t care the increasing percentage of poverty like in the Philippines, it leads to revolution and change into a crime. Because of poverty, evil thoughts of...
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...ability. Anna Haskins concludes exactly that, stating that “racial disparities in mass incarceration account for between 2 and 15 percent of present-day achievement gaps.”1 The effects of family background, however, can be generalized beyond the scope of a significant event like paternal incarceration. A student’s socioeconomic status can determine what types of resources she/he has access to, what types of schools they can attend, the stressors they encounter, etc… John R. Logan and Julia Burdick-Will of Johns Hopkins University examine if attending a charter school necessarily equates to having quality education. The results were mixed, but after controlling for the poverty rate of an area, there was a strong correlation. In short, in high-poverty areas, charter schools were better performing schools while in low-poverty areas, charter schools were lower performing. However, what’s most fascinating is that attending charter schools did very little to offset the disadvantages that minority students face. Hence, the findings of this study, along with the work of Anna Haskins, support the claim that family background plays a crucial role in one’s educational attainment. The evidence of these two works, especially the Anna Haskins study, is compelling. However, it must be noted that it would be rather difficult to develop policies that monumentally alter the socioeconomic status of disadvantaged students. As I’ve aforementioned, the goal is not only to identify causes of educational inequality...
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...colonial rule left India a poor and under developed country. As a result we have been facing several serious Problems since independence. Poverty is one of them. Poverty means not possessing the ability to acquire the "Minimum basic need for a decent human existence like food, ning, shelter, education and health care. Those who are this t0 these needs are below the poverty line. Though acute problem is being faced by several parts of the world but India still has the world's largest number of poor people in a single country. Out of 1 billion inhabitants, an estimated 350-400 million are unluckily below the poverty line. The problem of poverty is wide spread in our country; it affects the development of the country by forming a vicious circle. A large number of people do not get proper nourishment. Therefore they become physically weak and are unable to work efficiently. For this reason the overall production declines which in turn affects the economic growth of the country. Since economic progress is hampered, people remain in the group of poverty. Poverty seems to be a never-ending cycle. It has been seen that the children of poor parents, due to lack of poorer nourishment and education, turn out to be poor. It has also been seen that they also inherit a mindset of poverty. India's Hindu caste system is also responsible for the existing poverty. The high caste people always exploited the poor low caste people. As a result generation after generation the poor remains poor and the...
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...use data from the PowerPoint slides posted on Blackboard. Structure creates culture. William Julius Wilson points out this by stating that “structure trumps culture” in his book, More Than Just Race. In this quotation, he implies that systemic factors (“structure”) affect personal behaviors (“culture”). Systemic factors refer to the factors that emerge from the social structure and give impact on the social constituents of structure. Because the social constituents should live within the social structure, they obviously are influenced by the systemic factors. Thus, systemic factors have an underlying linkage with personal behaviors. Systemic factors, such as education, poverty, and economic change, strongly influence on an individual’s behaviors such as teen pregnancy and substance abuse. Education, poverty, and economic changes are systemic factors that have created major shifts in general behaviors of teen pregnancy. According to the article “After the Sexual Revolution,” some factors contribute to these shifts: success of abstinent education, positive effect of comprehensive sex education cultural backlash against sexual revolution, fear of disease. Nationwide in 2007, 47.8% of high school students had ever had sexual intercourse during their life. Overall, prevalence of having had sexual intercourse was higher among African American and Hispanic than white students, and higher among African American than Hispanic students, according to the data of National Youth Risk Behavior...
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...Desmond points out in his novel “Evicted” evictions were a fraction as prevalent back then as they are now. In this day and age, people seem oddly desensitized to families being thrown out onto the street. Perhaps this is due to the type of people they see evicted, and the assumptions that they have towards them. Overall, society has grown to have a detestful view on those who come from poverty, as with poverty come higher rates of violence, drugs, and other crimes. Not to mention, the conservative platform in America has for years focused fiscal blame onto the lower class, particularly those dependant on welfare programs, by labeling them as “moochers” and claiming they abuse the system, riding on the backs of hard working Americans. This damaging sentiment paired with the stereotypes of and attitudes towards impoverished individuals has contributed to the desensitization of Americans towards their fellow struggling citizens, and further enabled the loop of poverty to continue. Poverty itself is a complex thing, and more often than not, those who fall below poverty lines end up in a vicious cycle that is hard to pull yourself out...
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