Opening branch locations in low-income areas of Massachusetts As you know, there are many studies focused on the impact Early Childhood Education has on children as they enter elementary school and even on through their adult lives. ... Review of Current NGCC current demographics 2. ... Current and Prospective NGCC's Client Demographics Current As you are aware, NGCC has ten current locations in Massachusetts; Andover, Beverly, Franklin, Hopkinton, Marlborough, Natick, Sudbury, Natick, Walpole, Westborough and Westford. ... Figure 2 Potential Areas to Expand to At this point, it is...

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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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(8) As easy as it seems it is also frustrating that our political leaders in both the White House and Congress have shifted away from the need to address the systematic causes of homelessness and focus nearsightedly and simplistically on the individual responsibility of those who become homeless for the misfortune deemed to be of their own making. ... For 28 percent of homeless people, their current episode has lasted three months or less, but for 30 percent it has lasted for more than two years. ... Current TANF benefits and food stamps combined are below the poverty level in every state. ....

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The homeless population is one that is extremely vulnerable and marginalized; it is one that has seen considerable growth in Canada recently "with many people currently at risk of becoming homeless. ... The argument stands that the current health care system in place does not effectively address the health care needs of the homeless population (Currie, Greaves, Golden, & Latimer, 1999, p. 103). ... These clinics have much of the same characteristics as any family physicians office, in which the focus of care is on immediate care for acute illness, screening, and health education. ... The ...

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Therefore, the primary focus of the United Nations should be eradicating poverty because poverty is an issue that affects every country in some way and denies people decent or humane lives. The main reason why the United Nations should focus on eradicating poverty is because, poverty negatively influences every country in some way or another. ... Almost three-quarters of the people currently infected with HIV live in Sub-Saharan Africa, which is an extremely poor area of the world (AIDS). ...

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As privileged Americans, many of us are unaware of the alarming number of individuals that are currently being smuggled from their homes and taken from their families as we live in ignorant bliss. ... From the blood, sweat, and tears of the slaves we worked to the very brink of death, to the modern day slaves that are currently being deprived of their basic human rights all across the United States, it is evident that slavery has never truly ceased to exist in our country. ... Instead of spending billions of dollars on national security abroad, the money should be focused towards improving the...

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India is currently investing in renewable energy projects in order to create jobs along with providing clean energy for the country. ... Because there are not as many available jobs as there are potential workers, the employers force the currently employed to take very little pay or they get fired. In order to help the poorest people stuck in the bottom of the caste system, we must educate current and upcoming generations about the problems that are associated with the caste system. ... With a current world population of around 7 billion people, that is enough food to feed about one and a half...

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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 essay will examine the causes of homelessness, with a focus on lack of affordable housing which shows that homelessness cannot be prevented without recognising this. ... Currently the full-time minimum wage is $16.37 per hour this is $572.95 a week. ... An additional $7.5 million for new housing and support programs to help 100 homeless people currently in the inner city to find stable homes in suburban and regional areas. ...

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A focus group made up of administrators, providers and enrollment workers, at four sites which serve the homeless, throughout the country reported findings that the Medicaid expansion has enabled patients to access many services that they could not obtain while they were uninsured. ... Another 14 million Americans who are currently uninsured will be able to receive government financial assistance when they buy coverage through their state's health insurance exchange. ... Their focus is often on whether they will have a place to sleep that night, a meal to eat the next day and how they...

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Economic questions focus on if a certain reform will deliver retirement, survivor, and disability benefits, and how the reform would affect the economy overall. The political questions focus on what could be legislated now and how plans might evolve overtime, addressing needs of changing demographics. ... Also, initial benefit reductions or decreasing COLA benefits, affecting current retirees, are options that could prevent raising the age. ... The tax cap is currently at $113,700. ...

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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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Abramsky talks about the turn of the economy in 2008 and the lack of government policy and planning in case of a situation such as the one that we are currently facing. ... Abramsky's The American Way of Poverty was well researched and presented new ideas about the current state of poverty by redefining what it is to be poor. ... Overall the book is eloquently written and the wording is perfect as so that the reader is not cause up in terminology and language and can instead focus on the premises and ideas. ...

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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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In the current paper, I focus on the legalization process of free child care to parents with two children in Queens, New York. ... In conjunction with the local representative, the bill was introduced in the house and together with his colleagues discussed the need of free child care for parents with two children by focusing specific policy strategies including strengthening the bargaining power of the parents in workplaces, expanding the earned income tax credit for the parents, and increasing the minimum wage and indexing it to inflation. ...

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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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There are people in society who cannot focus on education and health because they only earn enough to cover their basic needs. Through this suggestion, they can not only cover their basic needs but focus on important things such as education to be applicable for better jobs and contribute to the society which fits in my view as it is stated in the liberalism ideology "social entitlements are respected, including a certain standard of living and access to decent education, health care and accommodation" (Turner & Turner, 28). ... In The Spirit Level: Why More Equal Societies Almost Al...

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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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Currently, there is no doubt that poverty exists in many homes and communities across the nation. ... Lara, now a father, meets with a youth group and recently enrolled in a charter school for "At-risk students that focuses on independent learning" (Rivera and Berkeley 3). ... The program aims to increase high school graduation rates by focusing on engaging parents and children to succeed. ... Communities are experiencing accomplishments with collaborative endeavors that focus on the entire family. ... Thus, teachers are able to focus on a specific child's needs. ...

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Instead of being involved with gangs and crime, he focused on his music and spirituality. ... Marley paved the road for reggae musicians that many current artists can now travel on. ... Marley's large use of marijuana spread the weed culture throughout the world and has been influential in the current push for legalization throughout America and the rest of the world. ...

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