... and the risk of being fired (a common company strategy for deterring unions), is too great a risk for the working poor. In "Nickel and Dimed" Barbara Ehrenreich takes on the role of millions of Americans who, unless they're working two jobs or share housing and/or incomes, totter precariously on the brink ... of poverty and homelessness. This is a dilemma is in large part a result of major changes in welfare legislation in 1996, which eliminated cash payments to millions of America's poor and set a time limit for millions of others, requiring them to ... the government; and if we are eve...

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In his article "Lifeboat Ethics: The Case against Helping the Poor,"" Garrett Hardin, who was Professor Emeritus of Biology at the University of California-Santa Barbara, argues that helping the poor countries is the major cause of overpopulation. He also states that the issue of overpopulation leads to unfair balance of the use of the world's natural resources. Hardin uses the metaphor of ... ...

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