This research examines the coverage of poverty in four US and UK newspapers to understand how the issue was framed during a politically tumultuous time in the two countries. It found that rather than challenging stereotype, news coverage often perpetuated it, even when attempting to...
Asthegeneralstandardoflivinginthecountryrises,thepovertylinedoes,too.Therefore,evenwithtoday'srelativelyhighstandardofliving,about10percentofthepeopleintheUnitedStatesarebelowthepovertyline.However,ifthesepeoplehadstablejobs,theycouldhaveanacceptablestandardofliving.Economistssuggestseveralreasonswhypoorpeopledonothave...
It includes men and women, the elderly, children, and infants. Its members are from all ethnic (种族的)groups. What they have in common is poverty. Currently in the U.S., thirty-nine million people live in poverty. When money is really tight, paying the rent or buying food often ...
This document provides tips for regular citizens and library professionals.2 While the United States has seen three different presidents from 1990 to the present?and ALA consid erably more?very little has changed in how our pro fession confronts poverty on a national scale or col lectively ...
Poverty Alleviation in the People's Republic of China: The Implications for Sino–African Cooperation in Poverty Reduction In the last thirty years, remarkable achievements have been made in China's poverty reduction course. The dramatic fall in China's poor can be attributed mainly to a high ra...
It includes men and women, the elderly, children, and infants. Its members arefrom all ethnic groups. What they have in common is poverty.Currently in the U.S., thirty-nine million people live in poverty. When money is really tight,paying the rent or buying food often becomesa choice. ...
/ People with incomes below the poverty line are considered poor. / As the general standard of living rises / the poverty line does too. / Therefore even with today"s relatively high standard of living / about 10 percent of the people in the United States are below the poverty line. / ...
the poverty line.However, if these people had stable jobs, they could have an acceptable standard of living. Economists suggest several reasons why poor people do not have jobs. For one thing, more than half of the poor people in the United States are not qualified to work. Over ...
(Chiseled on the archway of the University of Chicago Social Sciences Building). The United States Bureau of the Census provides official poverty rates for most vulnerable populations in the United States, but does not do so for working-age people with disabilities. This paper creates a ...
Although death rates were dropping before these years, the added choice of... Wylie,M Charles - 《Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology》 被引量: 187发表: 1981年 Poverty in the United States, 1999. Current Population Reports This report illustrates how poverty rates in the United States vary by...