social progresseconomic progressgovernment programsThis article posits the issue of American poverty and governments' inability to significantly alter this adverse social condition. While data suggests there hasMcFayden, ElgieSocial Science Electronic Publishing...
In the United States,the need to protect plant and animal species has become a highly controversial and sharply political issue since the passage of the Endangered Species Act in 1973.The act,designed to protect species’living areas,and policies that preserve land and forests compete with economic...
morally and spiritually impoverished. Even the birth of the United States was an outcome of the sordid history of colonization. European powers literally mass-annihilated almost all the Indigenous peoples in the Americas in their lust for land and riches. ...
As the general standard of living in the country rises,the poverty line does,too.Therefore,ever with today’s relatively high standard of living ,about 10 percent of the people in the United States are below the poverty line.However,if these people had stable jobs,they could have an acceptab...
But all have something in common with those professions that are, such as teachers and doctors: They exist to help others. And as Adam Grant, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania, has shown, people who see their work as a form of___ always rank their jobs as more meaningful.Th...
Racial/ethnic inequities along the HIV care continuum persist in the United States despite substantial federal investment. Numerous studies highlight individual and social-level impediments in HIV, but fewer foreground systemic barriers. The present qual
Why can't free-market capitalism exist in the real world? Why is it better to be a free-market economy? Why do you prefer the Capitalism economic system to Socialism? Why is free market economy better than planned economy? Why does free market economy win against centrally planned & ...
As we will show, poor countries are poor because those who have power make choices that create poverty. They get it wrong not by mistake or ignorance but on purpose. To understand this, you have to go beyond economics and expert advice on the best thing to do and, instead, study how ...
Once popular in international circles, microfinancing is now seen as having a more limited impact on eradicating poverty and sometimes even increasing indebtedness.16The practice may have also led to a series of suicides among farmers in Andhra Pradesh in the 2000s.17 ...
Other states also experienced declines in manufacturing, such as in the Deep South, but they are not usually considered part of the Rust Belt. Poverty in the Rust Belt Blue-collarjobs have increasingly moved overseas, forcing local governments to rethink the type of manufacturing businesses that ...