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    to Become Pregnant?" Everyday Life. GlobalPost - International News. Web. 03 Mar. 2016. Sara Ipatenco brings awareness to the causes of why low-income teens are more likely to become pregnant. Poverty is a huge contribution to teen pregnancy, and getting pregnant during the teen years makes it harder to break that cycle of poverty. Ipatenco address possibilities that cause teen pregnancies, such as lack of education, no funds for birth control, life situations, and considerations. Ipatenco…

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    Poverty is related to overpopulation When the population increases, the strike for poverty also increases, this is a big issue. When a country has overpopulation, the government is not able to support each one of them financially, which causes poverty. When the population increases, the resources and services are limited and cannot meet the demands of the people in a country with a big population. The resources available in a country can only supply a limited number of people. If a country runs…

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    9.8% of stanislaus residents are unemployed. Poverty is a serious problem that many families experience. There are 1,408 homeless people in Stanislaus County. One major issue in the U.S that causes homelessness is poverty. We can solve this by trying to provide more unskilled jobs. This will work because only 14% of stanislaus county is educated. Another reason this will work is because climbing out of homelessness is virtually impossible for those without jobs. This will also work because…

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    Poverty is an ongoing problem throughout the whole world. Poverty does not discriminate against the victims it targets. Poverty effects men and women, individuals and families, young and old, and all ethnic groups. Poverty is a state, specifically economic state, of being extremely poor, or to lack money. This detrimental factor in life has effected people for many years. It can be seen in the book, Gang Leader for a Day, which takes starts off in 1989. This is not just an American issue,…

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    Poverty In Social Work

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    Fighting poverty is obviously a very important part of the social work profession. The first line of the National Association of Social Workers’ Code of Ethics’ preamble reads “The primary mission of the social work profession is to enhance human well-being…with particular attention to the needs and empowerment of people who are vulnerable, oppressed, and living in poverty (“Code of Ethics,” 2008). Thus many of a social worker’s effort is directed at fighting poverty. However more effort is…

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    Americans every night (Quigley). Two of the major contributing factors of homelessness in America are mental illness and poverty. Governments, churches, and private organization try to remedy these problems. Many people who suffer from being homeless also suffer from a mental illness. Because they suffer from a mental illness, it restricts them from holding a job. It also could cause them to retract themselves from society. After they become homeless, it only worsens their mental state because…

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    It's 2017, and we are still at the point of seeing numerous people out on the streets. Since 1993, there has been a dramatic decrease in Poverty, however, with the economy going down the poverty seems to increase slowly without us noticing. With the many programs that have helped other issues, the thought of poverty has slowly been going into non-existence.Though the term non-existence, in this case, it doesn’t mean we should celebrate, but look at society and ask what is really happening. While…

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    Poverty affects many people worldwide, leaving them with complicated challenges. Most people worldwide live in the state of poverty. Poverty is when a person doesn’t have enough money to satisfy his or/her basic needs, making survival difficult.Poverty is when a person doesn’t have enough money to satisfy his or/her basic needs, making survival difficult. Poverty is a negative place to be in that the majority of the world 's people experience on a daily basis. Poverty is when a person doesn’t…

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    Moller further explain that because certain stocks and real estate markers may increase in value, those who own them, mostly the wealthy, increase accumulate more wealth (Keister para 19). They also state how individuals and family processes also cause wealth inequality, “family structure is highly correlated with wealth ownership, net of income, education, and race” (Kiestar para 22) and specifically family size and family cessation; marriage and divorce. The reason which Lisa A. Keister and…

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    needs to be resolved. People are suffering from poverty and they don’t have a home to stay in. Homelessness can be explained by five major components such as ways to resolve poverty and homelessness, causes of homelessness, impact on people who are homeless, obstacles people face trying to resolve homelessness, and last but not least, what people are doing about poverty issues. Thousands of human beings aren’t in good living conditions and poverty is impacting their lives. Homelessness has a…

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