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- 1From:Journal of Hate Studies (Vol. 15, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedSince the 2016 U.S. Presidential election, the rise in hate around the country has increased dramatically. According to the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), in the days immediately following the election of President...
- 2From:New Coin Poetry (Vol. 51, Issue 1)A newly built shack is not slanted and toes do not peep out of new boots. Elbows that protrude from sweaters are like wrinkles on my grandmother's face. Rags do not have price tags. Threads become loose and things lose...
- 3From:Capital & ClassPeer-ReviewedThe Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP) is a direct action anti-poverty organization which, since 1989, has fought governments of all stripes in Ontario, left (so-called), right and centre to defend the needs of...
- 4From:Policy & Practice (Vol. 64, Issue 1)Despite low levels of unemployment, the number of children living in low-income families has continued to rise. In 2004, 55 percent of children in low-income families (14.9 million) have at least one parent who works...
- 5From:AEI Paper & StudiesWe evaluate progress in President's Johnson's War on Poverty. We do so relative to the scientifically arbitrary but policy relevant 20 percent baseline poverty rate he established for 1963. No existing poverty measure...
- 6From:Christian Scholar's Review (Vol. 47, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedMatthew Desmond. Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City. New York: Crown Publishers, 2016. xi + 420 pp. $28.00, ISBN 9780553447439. Katherine J. Edin and H. Luke Shaefer. $2.00 A Day: Living on Almost...
- 7From:New Zealand Journal of Psychology (Vol. 39, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedAlthough child poverty rates in New Zealand are about average when compared with other developed nations, they are still unacceptably high given the negative outcomes they create. Childhood poverty is associated with a...
- 8From:Journal of Developing Areas (Vol. 49, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedPoverty has remained largely unabated in Nigeria despite the efforts made in tackling it. Previous studies on poverty focused on total expenditure and did not adequately cater for regional differences in prices, needs,...
- 9From:Paediatric Nursing (Vol. 19, Issue 5) Peer-Reviewedwww.cpacj.org.uk Britain has one of the highest employment rates in Europe, with one of the worst child poverty rates. An extra 4 billion [pounds sterling] is needed by 2010 to bring these children above the poverty...
- 10From:Multinational Monitor (Vol. 28, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedTHE WORLD HAS MADE PIECEMEAL PROGRESS toward reducing the worst forms of poverty, according to a July United Nations progress report on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). While clear progress has been made on some...
- 11From:BMC Public Health (Vol. 22, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground Poverty is the greatest obstacle to the realization of human rights, among which illness is the leading cause in China. In 2015, China began to implement the health poverty alleviation project (HPAP). By...
- 12From:The Literary Review (Vol. 51, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedTranslated by the Spanish by Alexus Levitin Augusto Rodríguez , born in 1979, is one of Ecuador's youngest writers. He has published four collections of poetry in the last seven years. Fernando Cazón Vera has praised...
- 13From:The Chronicle of Higher Education (Vol. 56, Issue 26)Byline: Tom Bartlett What makes someone poor? Among those who study poverty, the answer has long been a lack of money. If your income falls below a certain level, you're poor. Researchers study extreme poverty and...
- 14From:Policy Studies Journal (Vol. 35, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedBy piggybacking off of the enormously successful federal Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) program, states can provide much-needed tax relief to low-income workers with minimal administrative costs. Nationwide,...
- 15From:Reference & Research Book News (Vol. 24, Issue 1)9789211262230 Cross-border energy trade and its impact on the poor; synthesis report. Regional Energy Programme for Poverty Reduction. United Nations Publications 2008 103 pages $25.00 Paperback...
- 16From:Pakistan Development Review (Vol. 39, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedI. INTRODUCTION In this paper, an attempt is made to document and analyse the poverty situation in South Asia. Available data on poverty levels and trends are discussed in the first section. Major focus of the paper...
- 17From:Paradigms (Vol. 14, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedSocial workers rarely discuss the contributions of the social work profession to the history of poverty alleviation in the United States. This article is based on a historical study that explored the response of the...
- 18From:Policy Studies Journal (Vol. 35, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedIn order to combat child poverty, changes should be made in how our welfare system provides services and money, primarily by modifying existing restrictions and significantly expanding the number of people eligible for...
- 19From:Urban and Regional Information Systems Association Annual Conference Proceedingsthanks * to the global project by FAO, UNEP & CGIAR, presented at ESRI UC 2004--for planting the seed * to Alachua County's Board of Commissioners--for an environment open to new initiatives * to Students of...
- 20From:Frontiers of Economics in China (Vol. 16, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedIntroducing the concept of viability, this study clarifies that the key to solving the poverty problem is to provide external assistance to nonviable residents. The study then proposes a simple model and explains that 1)...