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Update on LBJ's 'War on Poverty'

economy (Grier and Jonsson, 2004). These days, some of the programs continue - one of them being Medicare (Grier and Jonsso...

U.S. Immigration

poverty among immigrants who have been in the country less than ten years was 34.0 percent in 1994 and 22.4 percent in 2000; the r...

Food Budgeting in Relation to the US Poverty Standard

lower than in other parts of the country. There is not a great deal of industry in the area; housing is relatively inexpensive. ...

Sponsorship of the Olympics and Social Issues

main advantage to sponsoring sports events is that the sponsorship can and should be used as a "catalyst for building corporate im...

Poverty and Social Work

The Charity Organization Society quickly became a model by which many other charitable organizations were modeled and developed (T...

Child Welfare Survey Results

a higher level of education is regularly under 20% of the population (The Business Journal-Milwaukee, 1999). With an understandi...

A Poverty Solution

could live comfortably. It would appear to be a common sense approach, but the idea of welfare is often discouraged in a society t...

Poverty and the Effects of Social Policies

21 months to reach independence through employment. The goal, of course, is to aid recipients in becoming independent of welfare b...

Caribbean Countries and How Nutrition is Impacted by Poverty

most of the developed countries of the world. Belize has a population of nearly two hundred thousand for its small island size, b...

Sociologically Analyzing Poverty

also are affected. Although one can say that poverty is a situation that should be eradicated, the truth is that there are differe...

Poverty, Women, and Social Work

community solidarity which...provided a sufficient rational for local responsibility" (Trattner, 1999, p. 16). Furthermore, the po...

Globalization, Inequality, and Poverty

economist and former member of staff for the Wold Bank; Surjit S. Bhalla, claims that this target has already been reached (Cliffo...

The Old Guitarist Painting by Pablo Picasso

the blue period would further find inspiration. "Having outgrown his possibilities in Madrid (Spain) by the age of 19, he went to ...

'Up the Coulee' by Hamlin Garland

is a story about change - the change in a man, people he recognizes and knew his entire life did not recognize this man who Garl...

International Trade and Global Poverty

latest "round," however, has not gone well. "America wants to slash tariffs, arguing (rightly) that the best way to help poor coun...

Walter and Ruth in A Raisin in the Sun

that the African American male is simply not given the same opportunities, or not as many opportunities, as the white man. This pl...

Is There Evidence of Inequality In The US Criminal Justice System?

poverty. There is always a potential bias in any system that has the danger of becoming an inequality. The basis of the law and...

Poverty in Arkansas

Poverty is widespread in Arkansas, but there are pockets of poverty that are worth exploring. There are also areas where poverty i...

Vietnam and the IMF

It was generally believed that despite the presence and influence that the IMF wanted to exert it was still the will and...

Poverty Studies: Booth and Rowntree

of the "Life and Labour of the People in London" and actually discovered that the rate of poverty was higher than 25%, existing mo...

How To Improve U.S. Poverty Level In 2008

There have been various modifications and accommodations for students with special learning needs. Included in these are special ...

Arguing about the Minimum Wage

prejudice. At any rate, MacKenzie argues that raising the minimum wage will hurt the very people its supposed to help, because emp...

Two Social Work Issues

When considering such concepts of indigence, welfare, racism, social fact, social inequality and functional/conflict/symbolic inte...

Family/Childcare Issues & Single Parent

as the "irregular household structures-of the working poor" (Nelson, 2006). For example, one young working mother relies on her mo...

bell hooks “Bone Black”

What hooks has described with all the innocence of childhood is the ugly reality of busing, a controversial and still roundly disl...

The Problem of Poverty: A Look at Santa Rosa, Florida

11.9%(2004) ("Santa Rosa County," 2008). * There is less poverty in Santa Rosa County than in Florida overall. * Yet, clos...

U.S. Intervention in Central America

over the world-Iraq is merely the latest in a long list of interventionist adventures-but hes one of the most articulate. Chomsky ...

Poverty and Canada’s First Nations

This escalation can be attributed to a number of factors, one of the most prominent of which is the decline of the indigenous nucl...

Problems Facing Native American Nations

This difference resulted in friction between the peoples of this new nation (and in particular its government) and the Native Amer...

Poverty in the United States as a Social Problem: Causes, Theories, and Proposed Remedies

percent in 2004 (Spriggs, 2006). Beckley (2007) discusses that based on federal government measurements - known as the poverty li...