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…to the Mississippi Delta to study poverty programs, but when they stopped at the home of Annie White and her five children they found something they had not expected to see. In the days that followed, the senators drove along the muddy roads and stopped at shack after…

…he is described as being. Poverty, unemployment and class are also social issues connected closely with crime and delinquent behaviour. Sainsbury (1955) found that crime was closely linked to poverty, but criticisms show many tribes, and peoples who…

…. There is no one in the world that cares about whether the Indians are living or not. Watching the Indians make Ernesto realize the poverty that exists in South America. For example, Ernesto reflects upon his observations of the Peruvian Indians as: Their stares…

…. Rising crime rates throughout the region are generating intense social demands for effective responses that will guarantee citizen security while also resolving social conflict caused by poverty and inequality. The failure of the police forces to meet…

…campaign and it's War on Poverty. Implemented by the since disbanded Office of Economic Opportunity, the EOA included several social programs to promote the health, education, and general welfare of the poor. Although most of the initiatives in the EOA have…

…. For an above average university student it would be devastating to see education slip through his fingers beyond control. 'He was crushed by poverty, but even straitened circumstances had ceased to worry him lately.' (Crime and Punishment, pg.19) The poverty…

…the large increase in divorce rates. The number of lone parents increased from 8% in 1981 to 21% in 1996, and the vast majority of these are women. One of the most significant features of one-parent families is their tendency to live in poverty, leading to many…

…things and the boy realizes that he had pushed his family deeper into poverty by taking all the money they had over a girl. "Gazing up into the darkness I saw myself as a creature driven and derided by vanity; and my eyes burned with anguish and anger…

…alongside in hopes of escaping poverty. For the most part such families remained poverty stricken due to unfair and illegal wages and work conditions. However irrelevant this all may sound, facing similar hardships or obstacles will often create a sense of unity…

…the high rates of poverty, family struggles, lack of full time family support, institutionalized racism, and other aspects of negative educational experiences. The lack of hope often carries over into adolescence, when the child is at the highest risk…