Welfare and poverty

pursuit of a world without poverty is now a global challenge not only for global actors but also people themselves. This challenge is very significant especially in traditional fishing communities where the deprivation of multiple indicators is constant and continues (IFAD, 2003). The questions being shooted are like why are traditional fishermen so often poor? why are efforts of poverty alleviate programs not resulting with desired outcomes? How experience of poverty in traditional fishing…

led to local and national developments that generated a welfare state, creating a 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…

Many believe that all those who are poor and homeless are those who do not hold a job position and are only surviving on funds received through governmental aid. Barbara Ehrenreich’s essay called “Nickel-and-Dimed on (Not) Getting By in America” it is proven that this is not the case. Barbara sets out on a journey and decides to plunge into the workforce of a low-wage worker by utilizing the research method of participant observation. She isn’t entirely experiencing the true life of a poor…

as government-funded housing support, food stamps, and welfare checks through acts such as the Title V Act or the McKinney Act, but rather from communities coming together to stress the importance of homeless individuals working on their self-discipline and work…

rectifying. In America, we currently handicap children in poverty by viewing them through a certain lens. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, in 2013 between 20 and 22% of individuals under the age of 18 were living in poverty. This is the highest percentage out of any other age group. For this reason it is imperative that individuals who work in the education system have a firm understanding of how poverty works, why intergenerational poverty is such a problem, how to work with children who…

problem of Animal protection laws. The welfare of wild and particularly domestic animals in India is very low on the public and social agendas even though the plethora of comprehensive legal mechanisms for animal protection suggests the contrary. Animal protection should occupy a far greater role in public,acadmic and social debates. It is hope to have contributed…

living under the poverty level. Poverty and the amount of people becoming homeless has become a huge problem in the USA. Currently the number of those living in poverty is 46.5 million some which are also homeless. The USA being as successful as it, has so much to offer to the world, why not…

Did you know that according to the US Census Bureau, Detroit is the poorest city in America with one-third of its residents living below the official federal poverty level together with the nearly one-half of the city’s children live below the poverty line (the official measure of poverty; calculated to include incomes that are less than three times a low-cost food budget)? Did you know that 18,000 homeless people in Detroit are in need of shelter while three-tenths of them will be homeless for…

African countries have suffered from poverty and the relatively backward economy for a long time. What makes African countries historically relative poor, economists presented different ideas. As along with the spread of disease, chaotic social system, African countries stuck in a dilemma. Although political independent and globalization provided a lot of opportunities, the limited wealth and the low income restrict the investment for future development so that local people can only maintain…

for thousands of years, whether it pertains to race and inequality or the welfare and economic stability of a country. Both Adichie’s Ted talk and Silvers article talk about similar ideas, Adichie speaks about how “impressionable and vulnerable we are in the face of a story as children”, and how we can perceive certain races and inequalities as one “single story” based off one negative aspect of the country.(poverty,…