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Hours Per Week People Who Live
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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Live In Poverty Living In Poverty
1,765 wordsNot knowing where your next meal is an issue that most Americans should not have to deal with; unfortunately this is a reality for a lot of minorities in poor communities. There is a crisis that is of epidemic proportions relating to food or the lack thereof. Food or the absence of food can have a profound impact upon a persons character. This will undoubtedly affect them and their individual station in life. When someone is trying to survive, they will do anything they have to do to survive; it...
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Hours A Week Billion A Year
1,247 wordsValuing Housework Key to Ending Child Poverty, Study Finds Press Release, 5 November 1998 2000 GPI Atlantic Measuring Sustainable Development Measuring the value of unpaid housework and child care is key to meeting the Canadian Parliament's goal of ending child poverty in Canada by the year 2000, according to a new study by GPI Atlantic. [GPI: Genuine Progress Indicator] Despite the fact that non-employed single mothers put in an average 50 hours a week of productive household work, most live in...
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Population Growth Rate United States Government
1,905 wordsHunger-A World Dilemma Hunger is a problem, not only in third world countries, but in the Untied States as well. During the time that the United States experienced one of its longest economic growths, one in every ten households experienced hunger by a lack of food (Nutrition Concepts and Controversies). According to a 1995 national survey 4. 1 percent, or 4. 2 million, of all United States households experienced hunger (Could There Be Hunger In America? 1). Of the 4. 1 percent of these American...
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Live In Poverty Drugs And Alcohol
1,813 wordsIndividuals are propelled in to committing crime Every crime is the result of individual, physical and social conditions. (Ferri, 1893). In Thinking seriously about crime Jock Young described crime as a product of the under socialisation of the individual. This can be a result of (a) an innate genetic or physiological incapacity of the individual to be easily socialized; (b) a family background which was ineffective in the use of socialisation techniques in its child-rearing practices; (c) a soc...
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