factory that had just opened in downtown Milwaukee's gritty Hispanic ghetto. The new job pays almost twice the $7 an hour Huertas made in her last job, sewing women's clothing at a factory four blocks away. Today, she's taking home more than she ever has, as is her husband, Victor...
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But the increase has been far from evenly spread. ISTAT said the top fifth of the population in terms of income enjoyed most of the growth, while the bottom 30 percent of the population was at risk of "poverty and social exclusion". That is up from 28.7 percent the previous year. Simil...
Bill and Melinda Gates, as the world's top philanthropists, are rethinking their work in America as they confront what they consider their unsatisfactory track record on schools, the country's growing inequity and a president they disagree with more than any other. ...
"The rise in the poverty rate, the largest on record in over 50 years both overall and for children, underscores the critical role that policy choices play in the level of poverty and hardship in the country," Parrot said. The Supplemental Poverty Measure (SPM), which measures whether people...
"My hope, too, is in the fact that ending poverty in America is better for all of us," he noted. "It is clearly better for folks that are facing homelessness and hunger and humiliation. But it's also better for those of us who have found security that is diminished and depressed by...
Poor television: Narratives of the working poor in prime-time television crime drama. One problem with poverty in North America is the way the issue is culturally understood. This current understanding or dominant ideology of poverty is infl... HM Crandall - Washington State University.; 被引量...
is all in Asia or Latin America or model countries like Brazil -- and who doesn't love a Brazilian model? -- but look at sub-Saharan Africa. There's a collection of 10 countries, some call them the lions, who in the last decade have had a combination of 100 percent debt ...
Researchers plan to survey people in this demographic monthly for the next two years. The results found 29% of fire-affected households now live in poverty. That’s more than twice the percentage before the fires and three times higher than the Maui County average. ...