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come. About 84% of Americans also believe that some of the money we are spending on supporting non-violent prisoners who show little to no risk to the outer community should be shifted for use in strengthening programs such as parole and probation (Pew Center on the States). Although prisons do need that money in order to continue being in service, that set amount of money could without a doubt be reduced if we did not have unnecessary incarcerations belonging to non-violent drug offenders. It…

relationships in the medical industry and influence doctors’ decisions on what they prescribe to their patients. The Pew Charitable Trust reported in 2012 (as cited in the Connolly, Althaus, & Skipper, 2014), out of the pharmaceutical industry “spent $27 billion” and $24 billion of that was spent on “marketing to physicians” (Connolly, Althaus, & Skipper, 2014; Pew Charitable Trust, 2012). The case study put together by Connolly, Althaus, & Skipper (2014) for the Twenty First Intercollegiate…

The American Dream is becoming harder to achieve. A report from the Pew Charitable Trusts found that “most Americans raised at the bottom of the income ladder never reach the middle rung.” Growing up in a poor migrant family I am experiencing many challenges that poor people have to overcome to move up. Had my parents not come to the United States when I was a child, I would have not had an opportunity get out of poverty. If I stayed in Mexico my possibility to have gone to get an formal…

by the federal government (The Pew Charitable Trusts). The access to state funded programs is separated into two different categories for immigrants that can qualify for it. There are authorized immigrants which are lawful permanent residents, humanitarian’s immigrants, and other types of legal immigrants as well as unauthorized immigrants that are undocumented immigrants, temporary workers, and individuals granted temporary protected status (The Pew Charitable Trusts). The views on how to…

To understand how a structural theorist would explain the presence of middle class crime you have to first understand what the Social Structure Theory stands for. Social Structure Theory is defined as “the view that disadvantaged economic class position is a primary cause of crime” (Siegel, 2015, p. 187). What Siegel means is that the lower the social class and more disadvantaged and oppressed the population they have more of a reason to commit crime. Everyone knows that 95% of the wealth is…

With nearly thirty percent of its children growing up in poverty, New York City obviously has a poverty problem (Cheney). Children that grow up in poverty are typically less healthy and drop out of school at higher rates than their wealthier peers (Children’s Defense Fund). As was noted in class, many families are plagued by generational poverty. They grow up in poverty, raise families of their own in poverty, and die in poverty, never breaking out of this vicious cycle. In light of this harsh…

Open campus lunches allow students to leave school during their lunch period and buy food from restaurants or go home to eat. According a study performed by The Pew Charitable Trusts and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, nearly 1 in 3 high school campuses across the country allow students to leave campuses during lunch. Some countries have allowed open campus to be widely accepted. According to mlive.com, French students have a two-hour lunch break from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. This implements…

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technological era that is the 21st century. These classes could include basic coding, accounting 101, and statistics. A second example of colleges lacking on their duties to fully educate students can be found in a 2006 study funded by the Pew Charitable Trusts. In this study, it was discovered that “50% of college seniors failed a test that required them to do such basic tasks as interpret a table about exercise and blood pressure, understand the arguments of newspaper editorials, or compare…

commonly referred to as the “AFDC lookback” and to date has not been adjusted for inflation. As a result, each year fewer children are eligible for foster care maintenance payments because federal funds to states are reduced. For example, a Pew Charitable Trust (2007) report has shown the numbers of children who are ineligible for Title IV-E foster care financial support has increased from 5,000 children in 1999 to 35,000 children in 2005. In addition to PRWORA provisions, the Adoption and Safe…