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Men May Change the Face of Poverty in America
Recent mass layoff data show men in America hit particularly hard. This may signal a demographic shift in the composition of poor in America. What do the numbers mean?
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Indigenous Education Latin America
Most Indigenous children have a lower quality of education and health care. Poverty and the fact that many of them have to work out of necessity are other disadvantages.
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Save the Children
One in six children lives in poverty in America. Save the Children provides many programs to help with literacy, nutrition, emergency relief and more.
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Drug Treatment as Solution
The present article attempts to discuss the issues of drug use, crime and race and the connections these social elements have to poverty.
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Food Stamp Recipients Not Welcome at Costco
Eric N. Gioia was a typical middle class person. That changed when he took "The Food Stamp Challenge" for a month. Gioia found that Costco doesn't accept food stamps.
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Poverty Rates in Alabama
As a state with historically high poverty rates, Alabama citizens and legislators will need more than tax incentives to save their rural towns.
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Poverty Rates in Alaska
The Bush Administration has made tax cut after tax cut against Native Alaskan programs. Without funding for relocated housing, people could be literally left to freeze.
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Poverty Rates in Arizona
American citizens who are Navajo, Apache, and Hopi Native Americans still struggle to find food for all of their people in the most remote rural areas of Arizona.
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Poverty Rates in Arkansas
With such a large area on the Mississippi River in critical poverty, people there become isolated and forgotten by the rest of the state of Arkansas.
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Poverty Rates in California
With 36 major cities experiencing critical poverty rates, and 4,800,000 people living in poverty in California, the state becomes a major target for relief organizations.
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Poverty Rates in Colorado
In some geographically isolated rural regions of the Rockies, hunger and poverty are very common. However, isolation from the rest of Colorado prevents action.
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Poverty Rates in Connecticut
Though the overall poverty rate of Connecticut is low, it would be hard for some of the poorest residents of the state's major cities to ever tell.
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Poverty Rates in Delaware
Poverty in each of Delaware's three major cities remains significantly higher than the state's average.
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Poverty Rates in Florida
An uncommonly high percentage of Florida's jobs are in retail due to the state's extensive tourist industry. Because of this, many urban residents fall into poverty.
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Poverty Rates in Georgia
Georgia has one of the largest areas of severe poverty in the United States. This extreme isolation of the poorest Georgians can only make matters worse.
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Poverty Rates in Hawaii
Hawaii has a low poverty rate when compared to the national average, but some urban-dwellers of cities like Hilo and Waipahu still have trouble affording food.
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Poverty Rates in Idaho
Counties and major cities may keep poverty rates close to the Idaho state average, but this isn't necessarily a good thing.
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Poverty Rates in Illinois
With the poorest people in Illinois separated from the rest of the state and secluded in specific areas of inner cities, poverty can only worsen and expand.
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Poverty Rates in Indiana
Working enough to pay the bills can actually be impossible for many poor people in Indiana cities without higher wages.
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Poverty Rates in Iowa
In a country where your best isn't good enough, and working full-time doesn't pay the bills, the working poor in urban areas of Iowa can't get by without assistance.
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Poverty Rates in Kansas
The poorest Americans living in major cities of Kansas do not get the same chances to succeed when they are packed into areas with low-quality education and health care.
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Poverty Rates in Kentucky
With so many of Kentucky's people in rural counties being left behind, it is clear that more has to be done to prevent huge areas of America from being forgotten.
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Poverty Rates in Louisiana
An obvious inequality in education, jobs, and health care in Mississippi River towns and poor areas of major cities contributes to Louisiana's severely high poverty rate.
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Poverty Rates in Maine
With such a clear line separating low and high poverty rates between coastal towns and more inland regions of Maine, more steps should be taken toward equality.
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Poverty Rates in Maryland
When people living in severe poverty are isolated to one section of a large city or to some distant land in rural parts of the state, poverty multiplies and expands.
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Poverty Rates in Massachusetts
Workers living in the major cities of Massachusetts are finding it harder to survive on the minimum wage in America's failing economy.
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Poverty Rates in Michigan
The problem of widespread poverty in big cities is not solely due to a lack of income. It is that income simply isn't enough to pay the ever-rising cost of living.
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Poverty Rates in Minnesota
Though the poverty rate in Minnesota is the one of the lowest in the United States, people in major cities and rural areas may find it hard to tell.
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Poverty Rates in Mississippi
Mississippi has the highest poverty rate in the country, and communities along the Mississippi River have the highest poverty rates in the state.
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Poverty Rates in Missouri
A large area of rural Missouri has much higher poverty rates than the rest of the state. Are these rural communities and the people living in them being left to die?
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Poverty Rates in Montana
The needs of Native Americans in Montana receive consistently and considerably less attention than people in the rest of the state.
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Poverty Rates in Nebraska
With such higher poverty rates being found in isolated rural areas and Native American reservations of Nebraska, it is clear that more economic development must occur.
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Poverty Rates in Nevada
The worst poverty rates are found in both the rural desert regions of Nevada, and the state's major cities, such as Las Vegas and Reno.
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Poverty Rates in New Hampshire
With the lowest poverty rate in the United States, New Hampshire must be doing something right. However, significant portions of some areas still experience poverty.
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Poverty Rates in New Jersey
Though New Jersey may have a low poverty rate overall, this would be hard to believe for many people who live with the stigma associated with life in the inner city.
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Poverty Rates in New Mexico
Even though New Mexico has such a high poverty rate, Native American reservations still have poverty rates that are critically higher.
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Poverty Rates in New York
Life in New York's major cities isn't cheap, and many working-class people simply cannot make enough money to pay the bills anymore.
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Poverty Rates in North Carolina
Many different places across the state of North Carolina have been found to have poverty rates that are critically higher than the state average.
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Poverty Rates in North Dakota
When communities are isolated to the degree of some North Dakota Native American reservations, it can be very difficult to pull the community out of severe poverty.
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Poverty Rates in Ohio
The working-class Americans living in poverty in Ohio's major cities simply cannot earn enough to keep up with the constantly rising cost of living.
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Poverty Rates in Oklahoma
In Choctaw County and the city of Stillwater, poverty rates have been found to be higher than areas in the rest of the state of Oklahoma.
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Poverty Rates in Oregon
With high rates of poverty in both urban and rural areas, Oregon will have to utilize several types of economic development to help its various communities.
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Poverty Rates in Pennsylvania
With the cost of living constantly going up, it is becoming harder for working people in major cities of Pennsylvania to pay the bills.
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Poverty Rates in Rhode Island
Avoiding poverty in major cities is a matter of making sure that working-class people make a wage that can afford the rising cost of living.
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Poverty Rates in South Carolina
When working-class people are isolated to specific geographic areas and sections of major cities, a negative stigma can make matters even worse.
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Poverty Rates in South Dakota
Poverty rates in the state of South Dakota are some of the highest in the United States in counties with a majority of Native American citizens.
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Poverty Rates in Tennessee
In some rural areas across the state of Tennessee, poverty rates reach much higher levels than the state average.
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Redesigning America for the Working Poor
The days of a war on poverty are long past. Today America needs a program to provide stability to those who work for low wages.
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Lyndon Johnson's Great Society
The Great Society was LBJ's legislative program that continued Kennedy's War on Poverty and furthered the ideas of Roosevelt's New Deal and Truman's Fair Deal.
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Paul Wellstone
Paul Wellstone leaves us in a tragic plane crash.
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