It amazed me how many children between the ages of 11 and 17 would speak about being kept poor because of the wealthy, and would dismiss their current education and the possibility of furthering their education. ... Families on welfare must be made aware of the importance of focusing on education and that opportunity will be because of an education and not because of one's current social or economic status. ...

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Private organizations often focus their funds toward specific groups or religious affiliations which means that the nations poorest may be left without needed assistance causing the poverty cycle to continue in the poorest families and communities. ... Instead of teaching individuals how to cope with their current issues, the worker can work with the organization and outlying foundations to find a way to help this child obtain the necessary treatment in order to maintain the highest quality of life for the child. ... Human service workers changed gears and instead of fighting for the rights a...

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Her focus is on the status of poverty in the media. In her study, she found that between 1981 and 1986 an average of 32 stories per year were focused on poverty. ... News on television seems more focused on crime, scandals, and sports. ... Census Bureau, Current Population Reports, Series P60-210, Table B-1). ... In my opinion, this shows that social welfare and poverty are not currently near the top of legislators priorities. ...

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This quote from Maggie Khumato, who lives in the nearby village of Chidobe (Zimbabwe), expresses how she feels with the situations being presented to her from her current situation of hunger. ... The Congressional Hunger Center is one of the world organizations that have their primary focus on helping countries in need of food, particularly Southern Africa. ... UNICEF works with governments to support participatory, community-based programs focusing on children's survival, growth and development (www.unicef.org). ... UNICEF has placed its focus on helping the issue of malnutrition al...

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This year's KIDS COUNT Data Book, the sixth annual edition, places a special focus on a problem that is at the heart of many current social policy debates: the increasing fraction of our children who are growing up without their fathers actively involved in their lives. ... Because many of the children currently living in two-parent families are projected to experience a divorce before they grow up, more than half of today's children are likely to spend some of their childhood in a single-parent home. ...

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It is in this way, the elite can focus attention to the poor and shift attention away from their role in perpetuating economic inopportunity and incorrect labels on those affected. ... It is of the utmost importance to re-evaluate this claims and current controversies. ...

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I feel that the focus or purpose of her writings were to remind her readers that every job is worth doing well, and that people who do it well deserve respect: " when I wake up at 4 A.M. in my own cold sweat, I am thinking of the table where I screwed up the order and one of the kids didn't get his kiddie meal until the rest of the family had moved on to their Key lime pies."" ... One thing I did mind about the book was that is was not totally focused on the experiences of the working poor, but often the experiences of someone trying to find a cheap place to live on short notice while sh...

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While some consider that parents are responsible for their children's material upbringing and that they need to provide their offspring with the basic needs, others believe that parents primarily need to focus on the intellectual upbringing of their children. ... As a social worker, Jeannette's family would be a tremendous challenge due to her parents currently falling into the motivational interviewing definition of "pre-contemplation.... As they progress through the contemplative stage into the preparation stage, the focus and direction becomes clearer for both the social work...

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The article "Early care and Education for Children in Immigrant Families," written by Karoly and Gonzalez, examine the current role of and future possibility that early care and education (ECE) programs have in promoting healthy development for immigrant children. ... Karoly and Gonzalez, however, focus their study on participation patterns specifically of immigrant children. ... Patterns such as this have been confirmed in their studies by data taken from the 2000 Census and the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study- KIndergarten Cohort (ECLS-K) with a focus exclusively on preschool childre...

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The primary focus of the United Nations in the 21st century should be reducing poverty throughout the world because it will help advance people's health and the economy. ... Eradicating poverty should be a main focus of the U.N. because it will recover the health and well being of the people. ... Poverty should also be a primary focus of the United Nations because a decrease in poverty around the world will better develop and improve the economy both within the country and worldwide. ... Currently, the rich-poor gap only continues to increase. ... Therefore, these people feel it shoul...

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Introduction Homelessness is not new to our nation, and it has greatly increased over the past ten years. (Hombs, 1-4) For growing numbers of people, work provides little, if any, protection against homelessness. Low national un-employment levels do not mean that all working people are well-off. (...

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Philanthropic Colonialism The exclusionary designing and imposition of global development agendas (with their focus on poverty reduction, without first having economic growth). 22. ... In the 1970's, Maathai founded the Green Belt Movement, an environmental non-governmental organization focused on the planting of trees, environmental conservation, and women's rights. ... Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Sirleaf is the current president of Liberia. ...

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There is currently now a five year limit on the amount of time a family can receive money from this organization, because Congress is trying to emphasize putting the recipients to work at jobs with which they can then support themselves. ... Part of the reason for the recent trend towards more financing of childcare is because economics now focuses more on the infrastructure to support business and the quality of life, and less on creating jobs, technical assistance and job training. ... Most studies do not focus on the last element of effects, but rather on only the direct, indirect, and the ...

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John Judis is a senior NY Times editor he writes: "Philips focuses on the similarities between the United States now and the 17th-century Netherlands and early-20th-century Britain. ... But he is right that current Republican priorities are out of whack. ...

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This grain combined the current production of other foods such as meat, fruits, vegetables, and nuts is enough to provide each adult and child on earth 3000 calories a day which is what the average American consumes. ... Most often times these private organizations such as "Feed the Children" and the "Christian Children's Fund" focus on small-scale projects directed toward the third world countries. ...

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The Countries I will be focusing on will be Nigeria, Ethiopia and India and assessing the progress towards reaching these goals. ... On the other hand, it is easy to predict that some Third World countries that currently are rich because of immense reserves of natural wealth while not being burdened with large populations.In our modern world, wealth depends on trade, in goods or services. ...

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With a poverty stricken population and lack of funding to help those who don't have the resources for good nutrition, it is hard for Bolivia to quickly recover from their current state. ... This approach also recognizes that malnutrition is not purely a medical issues but also requires a focus on the social and economic factors of the community. ...

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One day as I was driving to my sister's house in Ravenswood, I saw an elderly man standing at the end of the off-ramp. The gentleman was holding a sign that read: "Homeless will work for food. God Bless."" As I rolled to a stop, I rolled down my window and offered him my last five dollars. To m...

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