origin, appeared in The Century Dictionary (1891). The uppers are the upper leathers of shoes or boots; a person “on his uppers” has worn through both sole and welt. Footgear as indicative of financial status is also found in the term well-heeled (though this is probably of unrelated ...
…Already, America’s elderly suffer a far higher rate of poverty – defined as half the median income or lower – than their peers in other high-income countries. …the old-age poverty rate in the US is 23%, compared to about 15% in the United Kingdom, 12% in Canada, 4.4% in ...
Whatever short-term resources have been won by relief groups in leveraging our human instincts toward guilt and compassion, however, have been Pyrrhic victories. As images of violence and pain have become more commonplace, they have not only lost their power to inspire, but actually created an u...
Early childhood experiences can be very consequential for children's long-term social, emotional and cognitive development, said Sean Reardon, professor ofpovertyand inequality in education at Stanford University. 出自-2017年6月阅读原文 Povertyhas been understood in many different ways. ...
We describe developmental deficits in early childhood associated with longterm poverty in the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY). We compare estimates of the effects of long-term poverty (based on a 13-year average of income) to estimates of the effects of poverty based on a single ...
摘要: The 1996 Rome Declaration on World Food Security and the World Food Summit Plan of Action identified poverty, hunger and malnutrition as some of the principal causes of accelerated migration from rural to urban areas in developing countries. Most 被引量: 31 年份: 2005 收藏...
The government has carried out large-scale development-oriented poverty eradication programs across the country in a planned and organized way, and implemented a series of medium- and long-term projects which include the Seven-Year Program for Lifting 80 Million People Out of Poverty (1994-2000),...
Results reveal a conscious attempt to gender balance micro-credit administration in FRADU. Most of the facility was short term (less than a production season of 9 months), and more than 90 percent of the loan requests were granted. The reported income obtained by men was more than that ...
One positive consequence of mobility has been a better use of individual aptitude. This has been aided by the expansion of educational opportunities in modern industrial nations. On the negative side, a high rate of vertical mobility may produce individual and societalanomie(a term coined by the ...
Poverty is a state or condition in which a person or community lacks the financial resources and other essentials beyond income for a minimum standard of living.