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Unintended Pregnancies Teenage Mothers
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1,242 wordsPoverty means a lot more than how much money you have, but most available poverty statistics are based on income. Poverty statistics in Canada are usually based on the low-income lines published by Statistics Canada. These poverty lines (or income levels) vary with the size of your family and community. For example, for a large city, in 1997, the poverty lines were set at $ 17, 409 for an individual and $ 32, 759 for a family of four. People with incomes below these poverty lines have to spend a...
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1,648 wordsHomelessness is an ongoing problem for our society. Everyday we come to terms with the effects of it, but what about the causes? By definition, a person who is homeless lives in public. The lack and destruction of federal housing programs and increasing rents forced those who are homeless to do in public what everyone prefers to do in private. According to the website, National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty, the Low Income Housing Information Service estimates that there are twice as ma...
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1,609 words... aged 20 to 45 years. Age adjustment was accounted for using the direct method with 1990 U. S. population statistics as follows: aged 15 - 24 (80, 596, 000); aged 45 - 46 (46, 710, 000) (Tuberculosis control law 1993). iii. data analysis and results 1860 cases were explored in both South Central and Harlem. Both districts are low-income, medically under-served communities with large numbers of immigrants such as Hispanics, blacks or Asian-Pacific Islanders. The data was evaluated with the obj...
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357 wordsEducation Program In a world that is perfect world all children would have access to essential academic, financial, and information resources necessary to be successful for the achievement of higher education and prosperous careers. However our world is not a perfect one and all our all children do not get the same opportunities to succeed. Over the past 50 years the enrollment and persistence rates of colleges have increased many folds yet the existing gaps in education continues to increase be...
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The Crisis For Affordable Childcare In New York
954 wordsThe Crisis for Affordable Childcare in New York In order for a single parent in Brooklyn, New York with one pre-schooled and one school-age child to make it out of poverty, he or she must earn a minimum of $ 44, 592 per year -- without any government or private support, according to a new study, "The Self-Sufficiency Standard for the City of New York. " That same family would need to earn $ 44, 208 in the Bronx, $ 46, 728 in Staten Island, $ 46, 836 in Queens, $ 48, 048 in Upper Manhattan and $ ...
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Medicare Beneficiaries Managed Care
2,007 wordsMedicaid was enacted in the same legislation that created the Medicare program-the Social Security Amendments of 1965. Prior to the passage of this law, health care services for the indigent were provided primarily through a patchwork of programs sponsored by State and local governments, charities, and community hospitals. Before 1965, Federal assistance to the States for the provision of health care was provided through two grant programs. The Social Security Amendments of 1950 provided Federal...
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School Choice Mitigates Educational Opportunities
2,834 wordsSchool Choice Mitigates Educational Opportunities It is a widely accepted fact that the quality of education in American had substantially deteriorated in recent years. There are many factors causing such situation. Critics of American public education system name a growing incompetence of government officials as the main reason for this. In 1950 Milton Friedman suggested that the educational system in U. S. had to be reformed. He was the first one to come up with a concept of educational vouche...
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2,866 wordsThe Economics of Aging: Your Future is in Your Hands A nursing home is more often than not confused with retirement homes, which are two different entities. A nursing home is one that provides its residents with nursing care by trained professionals, rendering their services to individuals with certain illnesses and disabilities. These facilities, however, are almost always perceived to cater to senior individuals only. There are certain facilities that cater to younger individuals, who have spe...
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Savage Inequalities Racial Tensions
1,925 wordsSociety is constructed into a hierarchy of social classes; poverty is what separates the social classes apart. The elite rich are at the top of this hierarchy, at the center are the middle-income families, and at the bottom are the low-income families and homeless. Traditionally the rich exploit the poor for more money while the poor become even more destitute. In the United States, the minorities are typically in the poor low-income level. The essays, ? Savage Inequalities, ? ? Positive Functio...
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1,612 wordsDISCRIMINATION IN MORTGAGE LENDING America is a land of opportunity where every dream can come true. The country is made up of all kind of race, color, culture, etc. All of these differences greatly contribute to make a United States. No matter who one is, one has slice of the American dream. A major part of the American dream is to own a home. In many well-developed areas a home price is usually so high compared to an average person income. Therefore, institutions to give them a mortgage loan. ...
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1,009 wordsDivided by Race &# 038; Income America has been described as a melting pot a land full of diversity. With that diversity comes a full range of income levels and statuses of its inhabitants, from the very, very rich to the destitute. Ronald Taylor s article entitled African-American Youth: Their Social and Economic Status in the United States focuses on the issue of polarization. Polarization occurs when an increase of the percentage of people in poverty coincides with an increase of the percenta...
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2,907 wordsWelfare Reform Welfare Reform Welfare Reform Introduction In August 1996, the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) passed. This legislation ended the Family Aid with Dependent Children (AFDC) and replaced it with Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF). Unlike AFDC, TANF is not an entitlement program. This means that states are under no obligation to provide cash assistance to eligible families. Instead the federal government gives block grants to assis...
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2,551 wordsIntroduction Homelessness is not new to our nation, and it has greatly increased over the past ten years. (Hombs, 1 - 4) For growing numbers of people, work provides little, if any, protection against homelessness. Low national un-employment levels do not mean that all working people are well-off. (Blau, 21 - 24) What is homelessness? According to the definition stated by Stewart B. McKinney, for purposes of the 1987 McKinney Homeless Assistance Act, a homeless person (homelessness) is one who l...
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1,441 wordsHomelessness: What We Can Do About It Being homeless is often defined as sleeping on the streets. Although this is the most visible and severe form of homelessness, there are many other types of acute housing need. These include living in temporary accommodation, poor or overcrowded conditions, or being in mortgage arrears and under threat of re-possession. (Hope, 27) It is a symptom of many complex problems: mental illness, emotional instability, illiteracy, chronic substance abuse, unemploymen...
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5,904 words+ (a) In general For purposes of this chapter, the term homeless or homeless individual or homeless person [ 1 ] includes o (1) an individual who lacks a fixed, regular, and adequate nighttime residence; and (2) an individual who has a primary nighttime residence that is (A) a supervised publicly or privately operated shelter designed to provide temporary living accommodations (including welfare hotels, congregate shelters, and transitional housing for the mentally ill); (B) an institution that ...
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