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    causes of poverty

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    The Causes of Poverty There is no doubt that poverty is unfavorable‚ so we must ask ourselves why it exists. It is a major problem all around the world today. We need to know where poverty begins in order to plan an attack on this social epidemic. The causes of poverty are very important that should be figured out initially. Among many other factors‚ discrimination‚ job shortage‚ inadequate early childhood education‚ the increase of housing rents and the lack of health insurance are the most dominant

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    Poverty Children

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    Poverty Children Brittney Montoya Bio 121 - Environmental Conservation Colorado State University – Global Campus Jennifer Feighny November 16‚ 2012 After reading that 500 children age 5 and younger die each day (14 per minute) from preventable malnutrition and infectious disease‚ it makes me think of my children and how I need to change the way my family and I live. Unfortunately‚ before this class I considered environmental problems out of sight‚ out of mind. Some basic causes of environmental

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    Homelessness & Poverty

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    Vanessa G. Longoria PSY 2012 Gladys Green Homelessness and Poverty- Two Terrible Social Injustices For a brief moment the bustling streets are deserted. The stores and shops have closed. The last bus filled with the city’s nine-to-five office workers has left. The commuter trains filled with business executives are speeding toward suburbia. Store lights have been dimmed and street lights have come on. The evening’s wind picks up as the temperature plunges on another winter night. Heated apartments

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    Poverty Satire

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    Poverty Satire With the advancement of poverty in the United States it is time to solve the homeless situation. Thousands of Americans are homeless and taking up space on the city’s streets. A simple solution to this problem would be to allow the homeless to reside in landfills. They would be able to sort through the waste to find appropriate cardboard boxes to live in. This could also be used as a form of employment allowing them to sort through recycling to improve the environment. It is also

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    Poverty in the Philippines According to the Population Commission‚ there are about 30.6 million Filipinos suffering from poverty. Out of all the Southeast Asian countries‚ the Philippines is the worst when in comes to poverty. About 15.3 million Filipinos are subsistence individuals meaning that they do not make enough money to provide for basic food requirements. In 1999‚ the World Bank said that the Philippines had a per capita GNP or gross national product for each person of $1‚050.

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    poverty in india

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    Pollution is an issue of concern in the modern world that we live in today. There are many types of pollution‚ namely air‚ water and noise. Pollution in our environment will undoubtedly affect our quality of life. Our naturally beautiful world becoming ugly because it is suffering from the effects of environmental pollution. Pollution can also cause various health problems and other negative effects. Air pollution is caused by the emission of toxic gases from vehicles‚ factories and open burning

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    Poverty as a Challenge

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    POVERTY AS A CHALLENGE 1. A person is considered poor if his or her income or consumption level falls below a given minimum level necessary to fulfil basic needs. Each country uses an imaginary line that is considered appropriate for its existing level of development and its accepted minimum social norms. This is called the poverty line. While determining the poverty line in India‚ a minimum level of food requirement‚ clothing‚ footwear‚ fuel and light‚ educational and medical requirements‚ etc

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    Causes of Poverty

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    Ling 100 Causes of Poverty Poverty usually means one lacks the necessary for basic lives such as clean and fresh water‚ nutrition‚ health care‚ education‚ clothing and shelter. Nowadays‚ it is not only a challenge for poor countries. American‚ the world ’s richest country‚ also has poverty problems. It is a huge issue for the whole world. To solve this problem‚ people should figure out the reasons behind poverty first. Poverty is very complex social problem. Causes of poverty can be multifarious

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    POVERTY AND CRIMES

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    Poverty The word poverty is derived from French word “Pauvre”‚ meaning poor. Material possession of having little or no more means to support oneself is called poverty according to Bargata and Borgata . Poverty is of two types absolute poverty which refers to the basic needs of human life which commonly includes food‚ water‚ sanitation‚ shelter‚ clothing‚ health care and education and relative poverty which is defined as economic inequality in the location or society in which people live. According

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    Poverty and Homelessness

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    Expository essay Homelessness Over the years ‚ we as a society have become insensitive to the major issues faced by the mankind and homelessness is one of those major issues. Millions of people‚ including children‚ families ‚ babies ‚veterans and elderly live day after day without food‚ water or a roof over their heads. People who are mentally ill also have it tough on the streets‚ which can be extremely confusing to them and dangerous to the rest of society. As the con side of this argument‚ it

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