Poverty reduction

Child poverty is about more than just money – it’s multidimensional. For children, poverty means being deprived in crucial aspects of their lives such as nutrition, health, water, education or shelter. The effects of low socioeconomic status often persist long into adulthood and is both harmful to the person themselves as well as to society. Ending child poverty is important to break the cycle of future generations. Child poverty is a devastating and pressing issue that affects children of all…

food secure. Proving such services has been an important step in helping elders stay independent, social stimulated, aware of other aging programs. The profile of congregate participants of the program represent 80% of elder population at 200% of poverty level, 60% live alone, 70% are women, 28% live in rural communities, 25% are minorities and the average age for most seniors in the program are age 76 years. Over 238,000,000 home meals are delivery per year serving an estimate of 2.6…

1.INTRODUCTION Climate change has become one of the leading factors that has damaged rural communities in the developing world. Rural areas in the developing world are mostly affected by climate change due to lack of education and funds to implement measures that can curb climate change. Climate change has damaged rural communities by affecting the livelihood of the rural people, health, agriculture, the economy just to mention a few. Natural disasters, sea level rises and global warming are…

safety net, such as the Social Security Act, for future generations of U.S. citizens. The 1964 passage of the Economic Opportunity Act initiates a national War on Poverty, a number of community action programs receive funding through this legislation. Despite an overall improvement in economic conditions, the decline in manufacturing and reduction in welfare payments in the 1970s forced even more individuals and families into homelessness. During the 1980s Reagan administration budget cuts and…

An Hankering for Food Everyday nearly 795 million people go hungry, that is about one in nine people worldwide. Even though enough food is produced across the world to feed the estimated 7.4 billion population, people are still going to bed hungry. As the population of Earth reaches approximately 9 billion people by 2050 the question of feeding 9 billion arises. If 795 million people go malnourished everyday feeding 9 billion will be a tough task. One solution is Increased research into…

Peter Singer wrote his work Famine, Affluence and Morality, which covered his thoughts on how we should treat those starving in poverty stricken countries. It argues that affluent individuals and countries are morally obligated to donate far-more resources to humanitarian causes than is considered normal in Western cultures. The essay was inspired by the starvation of Bangladesh’s Liberation War refugees and he uses their situation as an example to make the point that affluent countries are…

This paper will look at the poverty experienced by remote Indigenous communities, and how government social assistance (Ontario Works Program) has ultimately created systematic and systemic barriers that has resulted in inadequate social conditions. Poverty and homelessness among Indigenous persons and communities is linked historically to the oppression, racism, colonization, and exploitation implemented by European settlers. Due to the historical injustices of being forced onto remote,…

These results further support the fact that increased school funding creates more opportunities for low-income students, while reducing the incidence of poverty. In fact, according to a nationwide New York Times poll conducted in March 2005 found that 85% of Americans believe that having a good education is either “Essential” or “Very important” for getting ahead in life” (Class Matters 251). The need for…

Not Bad After All: Uncertainty Reduction Theory in Interpersonal Communication Part One In 1975, two researchers by the names of Charles Berger and Richard Caprese, developed Uncertainty Reduction Theory (URT). Uncertainty Reduction Theory is both how interpersonal communication is affected by lack of knowledge and how people use communication to gather information. This theory was found on Berger’s observation of initialed interactions with individuals exchanging public information. As the…

At least half of the global population live in poverty with half of this population living in complete destitution, living on a dollar a day and at risk of death by starvation or disease. One billion people live without access to safe drinking water and two billion people live with no sanitation. (Ukpere, 2014) Global poverty is an increasing problem in the world and the goal of ending poverty is elusive. Solutions to poverty cannot be based exclusively on economic policies as there are both…