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…official estimated number of homeless people greatly exceeded the number of emergency shelter and transitional housing spaces (National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty, 1999). Moreover, there are few or no shelters in rural areas of the United States…

…Poverty Point sites in Louisiana and western Mississippi exhibit the first major residential settlements and monumental earthworks in the United States. Although the Poverty Point culture is not well understood in terms of social organization…

…of poverty often connected to children in homes run by teenage mothers put them at serious disadvantages when compared to children raised in nuclear families. Many people believe that the implementation of sex education in schools and the addition of more federal…

…to sociocultural perspective, mental illness is a result of social, economic, and cultural factors. People living in poverty have demonstrated an increased risk of mental illness. It just so happens that mental illness is the highest percentage among those people…

…abuse, failure in school, and poverty due to fatherless homes have long lasting effect on children. Although steps toward prevention have been taken, there is still a deplorable negligence toward the safety of children. Substance abuse continues…

…, a certain percentage of working age adults will always be unemployed. “Since we declared war on poverty in 1965, this country has spent more than $3 trillion on our social welfare system” (Tanner n.p.). Before the “New Deal” era of the Great Depression…

…crash. The results of the crash were more serious than any other crash throughout American History. The Great Depression caused a change in the nature of the American family, an increase in poverty, traumatic mass unemployment, and President Herbert Hoover's…

…. As a result of these disparities, the rich can often protect themselves from environmental threats to health while the poor usually cannot. The World Health Organization (WHO) has called poverty the world's biggest killer. It has been shown that being poor…

…Before making a great success in the restaurant and wholesale beverage businesses, Alice Foote MacDougall and her three children had been thrust into deep poverty by her husband's financial failure. Raised in wealth and high social standing, she had…

…of the AIDS virus in Africa then pandemic. The statistics speak for themselves. Entire generations are dying in their beds; entire generations are growing up as orphans living day to day in extreme poverty hoping and praying that this deadly disease won't find…