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…Burdens of Poverty In the short story “The Sky is Gray”, Ernest J. Gaines shows the struggles, inflicted by poverty, in an eight-year-old boys life. This poor, Negro boy, James, lives with his mother and five other relatives while his father is away…

…Is Poverty Easy? Is poverty easy? Some say yes and argue that the poor have so few things to worry about: food and shelter. People say that the poor have little money that they do not think what to do with it and who might be taking it away…

…Poverty is one of America's most persistent and serious problems. The United States produces more per capita than any other industrialized country, and in recent years has devoted more than $500 billion per year, or about 12 percent of its gross national…

…of the world, more people will live in and around cities than in rural areas. Less than 25 years after that, urban populations will be twice that of rural areas. The impact of those demographic milestones on poverty and unemployment and the quality of life should…

…COPING WITH POVERTY AND ITS CIRCUMSTANCES Manawaka, Canada and Limerick, Ireland are on separate sides of the earth, however, when the Great Depression took place, both counties were equally affected. Angela's Ashes and Stone Angel are novels written…

…Surveying on minimum wage job. While meeting today's needs. American's living in poverty due to government regulations, low income jobs and lack of affordable housing. When she was working as a waitress in Florida. Enrenreich realizes from her co-workers…

…I do think that lack of employment and poverty are the biggest if not the main reason for all of the crimes in this country. The reason why a man goes out to sell drugs to his own people is because he needs the money to either feed his children…

…In the article Unmasking Poverty Bob Herbert talks about the hidden problems faced in the economy. Herbert talks about how the news and other sources say how the economy is booming, how unemployment rates are down with the creation of millions of jobs…

…of this American nation's poorest congressional district, also the setting of Jonathan Kozol's disturbing representation of poverty in this country. The stories, which are captured Amazing Grace, are told in the simplest terms. They are told by children who have seen…

…McCullers addresses poverty and racism of the 1930s South and also of the social and economic crisis that encompassed it during that time. The setting took place in a Southern town whose main economy came from cotton and saw mills and the time was during…