Poverty reduction

happen between ethnicities, genders, and other subdivisions in the workplace. By some peoples’ standards, inequality could be synonymous with discrimination which is illegal, but for the purposes of this paper income between the wealthy and those in poverty will be discussed. Is there income inequality in America? The answer is yes and perhaps raising minimum wage and choosing college majors wisely will help close the rift. In order to answer whether or not there is income inequality, one must…

Sasha Abramsky, a British journalist wrote a popular sociology non-fictional book titled The American Way of Poverty: How the Other Half Still Lives. He is also the author of seminal books Inside Obama’s Brain (2009) and Voices of Poverty. Almost five decades after the publication of the revolutionary The Other America written by Michael Harrington, whereby he narrated how poverty is prevalent and cripples America with great vengeance leading to social problems and conflicts, the author seeks to…

desperation to keep calm and carry on. That principle coveted by those to the right of the political spectrum, that achievement is directly correlated to effort, is the epitome of the American Dream. It is also an illusion, and a dangerous one at that. Poverty is not a lifestyle choice, but an affliction hitting many hard-working American citizens. Ehrenreich cites in Nickle and Dimed…

From the New Deal to TANF, the government has enacted policy after policy to combat poverty. Work has always played a prominent role in the United States’ welfare policy and studies have shown the inverse correlation between work and poverty. The question that has arisen from this is: should work be enforced or just encouraged? Historically, conservatives have favored the former, while liberals have sided with less paternalistic methods. In contrast, some of our European peers have chosen…

underprivileged; this message effectively collapsed in the 2016 elections. The Progressive message was now understood as “identity politics” not the defenders of the underdog as promised. However, Conservatives who can provide the best solutions to poverty were tagged with…

Low-income Children Defined According to a Health Affairs article, vulnerability can be best defined as being prone to harm, being of result from an interaction between the resources available to individuals and communities, and challenges in life that are faced. A vulnerable population can then be ambiguously indicated as “the disadvantaged sub-segment of the community requiring utmost care, specific ancillary considerations and augmented protections in research” (Shivayogi, 2013).…

In the heart of twenty-first century America, state-level higher-education reforms magnify socio-economic injustices of wealth, income and educational attainment. In particular, the Michigan Education Trust (MET) policy allows the unequal distribution of educational and economic opportunities in Michigan to worsen because it merely permits state residents to invest in college savings accounts for student recipients without adequately covering college costs. With a target demographic that has few…

Different 4 There are a lot of factors that construe the homeless epidemic. Factors the contribute to homelessness includes job loss, divorce, domestic abuse, foreclosure of home, serious illness, mental and physical illness, substance abuse and even natural disasters all help to contribute to homelessness. Which shows it can happen to anyone, regardless of gender, ethnicity, religion and even social class. Even with government regulations there can occur a loss of financial…

There are many different systems in each country around the world, some of which were created to benefit the economy as a whole while some others were created to benefit some specific classes or individuals. Hukou system in China or household registration system in the country was created to prevent exodus from the rural areas to the urban areas just for the sake of better living standard, and job opportunities. The system was created in 1958 after the victory of Chairman Mao revolution since…

Poverty, wars, corruption, crimes, all of these are killing the peaceful creatures in the world. What is happening in our world today. Are not we humans after all, So why don 't we each other to overcome these three problems? My topic is going to speak about the poverty in Africa, and how can we overcome it. The stakeholders in my paper are going to be the poor people, and their governments. Poverty is the thing that dominates our world, and makes the people suffer. Every day the…