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From:The Wilson Quarterly (Vol. 36, Issue 4)THE SOURCE: "Identifying the Disadvantaged: Official Poverty, Consumption Poverty, and the New Supplemental Poverty Measure" by Bruce D. Meyer and James X. Sullivan, in Journal of Economic Perspectives, Summer 2012....
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From:Renewal (Vol. 18, Issue 1-2) Peer-ReviewedThe past two years or so has seen a growing sense of public disaffection and disillusionment with political, social and economic institutions in British society. The general erosion of trust and values in society has...
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From:Black Renaissance/Renaissance Noire (Vol. 6, Issue 3)Analyses of African-American poverty have typically taken one of two guises. In the first, poverty is explained by reference to the structure of American society and culture. By this view, individuals are at the mercy,...
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From:Canadian Ethnic Studies Journal (Vol. 31, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedEdward B. Harvey is Professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto. His area of specialization is applied social research and policy studies with a particular emphasis in the fields of education, labour markets and...
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From:Studies in Short Fiction (Vol. 33, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedRuth Prawer Jhabvala's short story 'Rose Petals' sympathetically portrays two opposing ways of living an affluent life while surrounded by poverty. The characters of Mina and her father, the Minister, represent those who...
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From:CLIO (Vol. 25, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedGertrude Himmelfarb's 'The Idea of Poverty' describes the Victorian culture of poverty between 1750 to 1850 from a political, economic and social viewpoint. Published in 1983, it provides insight into the poet Gerard...
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From:Feminist Studies (Vol. 41, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedIN MARCH 1877, TWO LONDON ACTIVISTS provoked a debate about poverty and overpopulation that reverberated across metropole and colony. These activists, Annie Besant and Charles Bradlaugh, republished a book by the...
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From:The Carolina Quarterly (Vol. 64, Issue 1) Peer-Reviewed1. There once was a sort of beautiful woman who visited her new husband's family in the family's home. It was the first time she had visited, and it was an old home, built decades earlier of scavenged timber and...
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From:Studies in the Novel (Vol. 49, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThis essay examines Mary Castillo's 2012 Lost in the Light and Alisa Valdes's 2013 The Temptation ofDemetrio VigiL both Mexican American gothic romances. The characters of both novels traverse parts of what are usually...
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From:Tikkun (Vol. 24, Issue 3)IN 1934 PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT'S COMMITTEE ON ECONOMIC security drafted legislation to limit poverty among the elderly. A year later the Social Security Act became law, and in 1937 the Supreme Court affirmed its...
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From: Éire-Ireland[(essay date 2006) In the following essay, Haslam argues that Mangan’s work demonstrates an Irish Gothic mode and, though he identifies several other Irish Gothic writers, does not see it as a subgenre of its own. Haslam...
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From: The History of a Literary Radical and Other Papers[(essay date 1956) In the following review, originally published in 1914, Bourne contends that, unlike “genteel” literary works about poverty, Tressell portrays the “bestial struggle for existence” of the working...
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From: Feminist Readings of Victorian Popular Texts: Divergent Femininities[(essay date 2001) In the following essay, Jump provides a brief history and description of giftbook annuals, which, though ostensibly moral guidebooks, were often edited by “scandalous” women. She details the methods...
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From:Philosophical Topics (Vol. 38, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedMany philosophers argue that reasonably well-off people have very demanding moral obligations to assist those living in dire poverty. I explore the relevance of demandingness to determining moral obligation, challenging...
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From:Contemporary Review (Vol. 290, Issue 1688)POVERTY and unemployment are the indivisible effects of processes of marginalisation and exclusion throughout the world. They are symptoms of an unequal distribution of resources both within countries and between...
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From:Shofar (Vol. 19, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedIn August 1930 the Polish-Jewish painter Maurycy Minkowski arrived in Buenos Aires for a well-publicized but commercially unsuccessful exhibition of his artworks. Minkowski's exhibition coincided with the onset of the...
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From:Philosophical Topics (Vol. 37, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedVarious indices are used to track poverty, development, and gender equity at the population level. Some of them--the UNDP's Human and Gender-Related Development Indices and the World Bank's Poverty Index associated with...
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From:Canadian Ethnic Studies Journal (Vol. 52, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAbstract In the last few decades, as Toronto neighbourhoods have become more diverse, they simultaneously have become more inequitable. Poverty and income disparity have increasingly become concentrated along...
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From:Daedalus (Vol. 122, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe child poverty rate in the US is high in relation to the rate in other industrialized countries, such as Canada and Northern Europe. Some 20% of all children in the US lived in poverty by the late 1980s. Economic...
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From:Americas (Vol. 63, Issue 6)Volunteers with America Solidaria are professionals who give a year of service somewhere in the Americas. Their experience is a unique one, in human, professional, and cultural terms. Over the last decade, a total of...