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    Pro-Poor Tourism

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    Impact * Pro-Poor tourism (PPT) - Results in increased net benefits for poor people. Tourism is often claimed to be the largest industry in the world‚ thus creating both opportunities and responsibilities. Tourism can make a positive difference – and it should. Tourism can bring great benefits to local communities but only if it brings sustainable livelihoods‚ employment or additional incomes. The same approaches which have been developed to benefit the economically poor through tourism can

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    Growing Up Poor

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    Growing up Poor I did not realize until about the 5th grade‚ what being poor was all about. From kindergarten until then‚ kids didn’t really pay attention to what you wore to school‚ what type of home you lived in‚ or what your parents did for a living. What mattered was how nice you were‚ that you shared your toys‚ and took turns on the playground. Fifth grade started a whole new chapter in life. It started with a new school with both familiar and unfamiliar faces and with that‚ new challenges

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    Myths About the Poor

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    Myths: 1. People are poor because they are lazy. Of poor people‚ 16 years and older 12% work full time year round‚ and another 25% work part time. 2. Most poor people are minorities. Almost 43% of people living in poverty are white. In proportions however‚ African Americans and Latinos are much more likely to be poor than Asian Americans and whites. 3. Most poor people live in inner cities. 33% of the poor live in inner cities‚ but the rest live in urban areas‚ the suburbs‚ small towns

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    Poverty and Poor Health

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    lobbying are essential. The poor and disadvantaged are not always represented in the same fashions as others are. The poor cannot always find the transportation to visit their representative’s offices to voice their concerns‚ and most often do not vote as often as the non-poor population. The subject of the poor‚ and help for the poor are not always at the top of the list for county meetings‚ or representative meetings. Formalization Medicare isa health program for people age 65 or older that can

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    Elizabethan Poor Laws

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    Life for the poor in Elizabethan England was very harsh.  Unemployment and rapid price inflation increased causing many villagers to leave their homes and come to the towns to look for work. However‚ they often could not find employment and ended up begging in the streets. Elizabethan Poor Laws‚ enacted in 1601‚ were incredibly beneficial in uniting the community to provide care and nurture for the qualifying less fortunate. These laws set a critical foundation for Britain’s welfare system and established

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    Elizabeth Poor Laws

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    The Last Years of the Poor Law During the interwar period the Poor Law served as a residual safety net‚ assisting those who fell through the cracks of the existing social insurance policies. The high unemployment of 1921-38 led to a sharp increase in numbers on relief. The official count of relief recipients rose from 748‚000 in 1914 to 1‚449‚000 in 1922; the number relieved averaged 1‚379‚800 from 1922 to 1938. A large share of those on relief were unemployed workers and their dependents

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    The Working Poor Summary

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    Working Poor Test In “The Working Poor” Shipler gives an example of a poor grandmother named Leetha Butler who lived in Washington‚ D.C. and how even though she has very little in terms of finances her spirit and wits are exceedingly high considering her situation of poverty and how she takes care of her daughters orphaned children ages three‚ eight and sixteen (Shipler 29). After her daughter Diane was murdered in a drive-by-shooting‚ she did not collapse under the weight of grief because she understood

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    Poor Health Habits

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    Poor health habits 1. who want to stop a bad habit or start a good one Human being’s body needs healthy food. If people have poor eating habit‚ their body will have negative impacts. People must do more attention on what they eat and what they drink. Body metabolism is influenced by what we eat and contributes to either healthy being or illness in the body. The concentrating of this address the distresses of poor eating habit in a proposal decrease

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    Pro-poor Tourism

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    Theoretical Aspects of Pro-poor Tourism Page 7...…………………………………………… (B) Positive and Negative Example of Pro-Poor Practices Page 10....…………………………………………. (C) Local Participation and Pro-poor Tourism Debates Page 12……………………………………………. (D) Discussion on How Pro-Poor Tourism can Sustain Local Area Page 14……………………………………………. (E) Conclusion Page 17……………………………………………. Works Cited The following paper provides research‚ review‚ and analysis of different aspects of pro-poor tourism. Firstly‚

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    The Working Poor Analysis

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    has been to prison‚ their chances of getting hired decrease drastically. Chapter five of David K. Shipler’s The Working Poor: Invisible in America‚ Shipler emphasizes attaining a job‚ maintaining a job‚ and living while employed to construct his arguments on the barriers and biases that the working poor have to overcome. Perhaps the most problematic task for the working poor is attaining

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