Women were financially dependent on men and lost their financial support as a consequence of separation, divorce and/or death. ... For example, "51.6% of lone parent families headed by women are poor" (Morris, 2014, para.4). ... Women, particularly from Asia, make up the majority of migrant workers and often do not keep their earnings as they send their earnings back home to support their families. ... Often times these women leave their own children and families behind to come to Canada. ... Cool (2010) further supports the idea that the gender wage gap is largely due to women'...

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In August 1996, President Bill Clinton changed the way the American poor would support themselves financially. ... Guidelines are set by each state to determine how much assistance each family will receive. ... With TANF funds, states can provide families who receive welfare, who formerly received cash welfare, as well as families who have never received cash welfare with supplemental income. ... Recipients can no longer fall back on cash benefits for their means of financial support, where before the reform, recipients could return to welfare whenever they so desired. ... Many "Welfare-to-Wor...

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These poverty guidelines are not useful for every family, because some families may receive a few dollars more than what the guidelines are. ... Sometimes poverty may cause a child and their family to become homeless. ... If a family cannot afford proper housing for themselves, the family may become homeless. The family may even have to live on the street or in their cars. ... Some children may even turn to gangs, because they feel a closer connection to this new family than they do with their biological family at home. ...

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This means that there is no one, friend or family, who can provide emergency shelter and there are no financial resources available to the individual or family with which to purchase shelter. Individuals or families facing eviction are not yet homeless and therefore do not qualify for homeless services (West Virginia Bureau for Children and Families). ... The 1988 Family Support Act required that AFDC-UP be implemented in all states by 1994. ... As mandated by the Family Support Act of 1988, recipients who are less than three months pregnant or who have children over three years of age must at...

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These variations of ways Puerto Rican immigrants earned a salary was not too different from each other, since all of these ways of earning an income for a living was not enough to live a normal life and support their family. ... Schooling for children from poor Puerto Rican families wa...

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Implementing a financial assistance option to families who qualify, and 2. ... Of course, it is important to remember that not all studies looked at support the entire scope of benefits outlined in the report. ... (HHS Poverty Guidelines) Although Massachusetts does not have any cities or towns whose median family income falls below the U.S. poverty level (See Figure 2), there are still impacts on those families who are closer to the poverty line. Because Federal Assistance Programs exist for families on the very low end of the economic scale, it is up to the private sector to take action an...

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Contributing factors include: family problems, throwaways, homeless families, residential instability, foster care and other residential programs, institutional contact, and socioeconomic pressures. ... Many children attempt to deal with their difficult family situations. ... It is obvious to me that love between parent and child is lacking in most families. ... Another cause of juvenile homelessness is that more and more families are losing their houses. ... Whatever the causes may be, the result is an increasing population of homeless families with children. ...

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The factors that will be examined are race, family, income, mother and father occupation, and a few Upward social mobility is more likely for a whiteothers. Hypotheses: The higher the income of a family the moreindividual than a black individual. The frequencyof a chance of social mobility for the children of the family? ... The results supported most of the authors' hypotheses. ... The author compares Latinos of today to early-20th century Italians because they reach the middle class by setting up small businesses, working in blue-collar jobs and by "pooling their resources, with e...

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Opposite to a widespread misinterpretation, welfare mothers do not tend to have especially large families, most having one or two children with only a small number giving birth to more. ... If you are not able to support a child, not responsible, or mature enough for parenthood it will only hurt the child. ... Young teenage girls have this feeling that the father of the child will be there to love and support both of them. Statistics show that most of them leave the mother to support the child on their own with no financial support whatsoever. ...

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To prove this statement (this essay) will have six sub topics to support it including: Jane as an orphan, Jane with the Reed family, Jane at Lowood, Jane at Thornfield, Jane at Whitcross and the village, Jane, and her found fortune. ... Jane tells about how she has no family; her mother and her father had the typhus fever and "both died within a month of each other- (Ch. 3).Jane also is shunned by the Reed family. ... With this statement Jane is saying that she would rather stay at Gateshead and be abused then go to a poor family. ...

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Better health for women and their families. ... Female education leads to the postponement of family formation and childbearing. ... Average families will then have fewer children to feed and support. 4. ... Women are known to prioritise children and family expenditures with the resources that they control. ... A wide variety of issues were highlighted, but I would argue that three areas featured prominently: __Safety considerations were reportedly discouraging many families from enrolling girls ...

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Therefore children of rich people are able to acquire higher education qualification while most of the children of middle and poor family land up with low qualification. ... In many cases those baby sitter and child labor are the children of poor family who have to work hard for their livelihood. ... There are numerous organizations such as organization such as National women Association of Bhutan (NWAB), National Commission for Women and Children (NCWC), Women and Children committee, and Labour Employment Act to support women in order to bring up women's empowerment (Tshering, 2009). ...

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Ignorance about institutional support- Projects, instead of policies, has been the primary tools to encourage development of rural small-scale enterprise. The biggest problem with such support is the ignorance of people about such policies. ...

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At the same time, UNDP contributes to efforts at reforming trade, debt relief and investment arrangements to better support national poverty reduction and make globalization work for poor people. ... In my family, all of the women work. ...

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King Lear is one of the greatest tragedy play written by William Shakespeare, which portrays the intense suffering from the blindness through Lear king of Britain and the earl of Gloucester. According to Dictionaries, blindness is defined as "unable to see and lacking of sight, but blindness that Shakespeare demonstrate is not only a physical inability but also a mental flaw that both characters present in the play. Shakespeare use parallel structure of the main plot and subplot that mirror each other like throughout the play. Begin with both two men have good children and bad children...

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