Poverty In The 1980s 
.... This analysis will focus on two economists, one a liberal and one a conservative, who take a very different perspective on
poverty during the
1980s. ....
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Poverty in America
.... Beginning in the late 1960s, but with gathering strength in the 1970s and
1980s, a new theory of
poverty emerged: the "culture of
poverty" (Schiller, 1989 ....
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Trends in US Poverty Poverty in the United States Since 1950 This ...
.... In 1990, the
poverty rate for nonmetropolitan areas was 16.3%, exceeding that of .... were poor in the 1950s and 1960s remained poor throughout the 1970s and
1980s. ....
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Formulation & Effectiveness of Public Policy
.... in the mid-90s: "although
poverty was reduced in the 1960s and 1970s, no progress was made in the
1980s or 1990s, and the incidence of
poverty remains high ....
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Failure of the War on Poverty
.... rich get richer and the poor get poorer; by the late
1980s, 81 percent .... degrees and those holding high school degrees is another contributing factor in
poverty. ....
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Poverty & Urban Blacks
.... Hardcore urban
poverty must be fought with universal economic reform programs. .... By the
1980s, sociologists still found themselves at a loss to develop solutions ....
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Trends Affecting School-Age Children in Poverty
....
Poverty is also higher among minorities, and Mott Haven's residents are almost exclusively .... argues, "The predicament of people with AIDS in the
1980s and 1990s ....
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Government's Role in Health Care & Poverty
.... one quarter of the entire American population is unable to avoid
poverty without government help .... during the 1970s, and then began to climb in the
1980s" (p. 3 ....
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LBJ & THE WAR ON POVERTY This research paper di
.... and early
1980s a very high inflationary spiral (Johnson, p. 876). Some conservative commentators have pooh-poohed the contribution of the War on
Poverty to ....
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Women & Poverty in the US
.... seem to lead to increased
poverty among women is that the juxtaposition of lower fertility, increased schooling and economic downturns in the
1980s and 1990s ....
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Causes of Poverty in Cental America & the Philippines
.... As noted by one commentator in the mid-
1980s, "the gap between Central American .... to the rapid population growth that has expanded the depressing
poverty of the ....
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Poverty in Calcutta
.... last hours of life - 54,000 in the single decade of the
1980s (Desmond 11). .... It is a familiar sociological phenomenon that extreme
poverty tends to make social ....
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Social-Welfare Programs
.... amount of
poverty in the United States as measured by Census Bureau statistics (Rich, 1993, p. A1). The total number of poor people in the mid-
1980s was less ....
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Development in East Asia and Latin America
.... sometimes erupting in civil violence, the perception in the
1980s was that .... national economies, with resulting high growth and alleviation of
poverty and other ....
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Afrocentrism, Feminism & Poverty
.... 1990b, p. 3). She argues that African American women in the
1980s and 1990s .... attempt to draft solutions to alleviate the problems caused by
poverty in African ....
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Trends in Socioeconomic Inequality
.... As household income declined in the
1980s along with rises in the
poverty rate, explanations were sought for the status of the United States as the ....
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CHILDREN OF THE HOMELESS IN AMERICA
.... received a lot of media attention in the mid-
1980s, as increasing .... Beyond
poverty and problems with limited income, other contributing factors to homelessness ....
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Women's Status & Roles Many social authors have agreed that the ...
.... It will be the subject of this paper to examine and analyze the issue of 'the feminization of
poverty,' with particular emphasis on the
1980s and the years of ....
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Chiapas Rebellion in Mexico
.... the collapse of world crude oil prices in the early
1980s.8 Mexico's .... years before 1994, the Federal government had increased its anti-
poverty expenditures in ....
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Crime & Economics
.... and the late
1980s, property-crime arrest rates for males 16 to 24 years old rose 18 percent. The real crime, according to many theorists, is
poverty itself. ....
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Breakup of Empires
.... the ability of the Indian people to compete economically, increased
poverty in the .... In the mid
1980s, the Communist leadership decided to dilute its absolute ....
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NJEDA
.... During the
1980s, the entire state experienced nothing short of an economic boon, "the .... more than one in three residents had income below the
poverty level, "Of ....
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Eleanor Roosevelt & Dorothy Day
.... staff in 1951, and who went on to write The Other America, a book that did much to launch the 1960s War on
Poverty.21 Had she lived into the
1980s and 1990s ....
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Marijuana and Medical Use
.... By the
1980s, drug use was part of the mainstream of American life. .... Concentrations of
poverty appear in all metropolitan areas. ....
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TEMPORARY ASSISTANCE TO NEEDY FAMILIES
.... In 1960s under Lyndon Johnson's anti-
poverty program, additional federal and state .... Demands for Welfare Reform in the
1980s High inflation and the other ....
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African-Americans and Political Participation
.... men were more likely to participate in political campaigning throughout the 1970s and
1980s. .... Black women are far more likely to live in
poverty than black men. ....
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Homelessness in American History
.... phenomenon as visible in the US as it became in the
1980s and as it .... of cheap labor, exploited by the great orchards, hounded by sheriffs, their
poverty a badge ....
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School Violence
.... demographically alienated in the manner of gangs or ethnic enclaves overwhelmed by
poverty. Yet the aftermath of the incidents of the late
1980s and through ....
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Third World Debt Problem The purpose of this research is t
.... The effect, particularly during the
1980s, was a widening gap between the prosperity of the developed world and the
poverty of the Third World, a gap that ....
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THE HOMELESS OF AMERICAN CITIES
.... of the 1950s and 1960s "
poverty" was an issue but "homelessness" was not widespread in urban centers and was not considered to be a crisis. The
1980s brought a ....
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