Manhattan, Kansas devlopment project on trying to stop poverty by looking at the demographics of income in the area. It separates the rural and urban areas of Manhattan for accuracy in determining monetary income of households.
UNICEF reports at least 218 million children between the age of 5-17 are being used as child laborers. They break child labor into child marriage, child trafficking, genital mutilation, discrimination, and other important areas of abuse. These child labors usually stem from impovershed communities or countries.
Addresses all aspects of child labor globally and locally. Links child labor to HIV/AIDS, Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, Education, Terrorism and more. Focuses on all third World countries along with the United States. Gives the labor force of children in all these areas.
Planners solution to solving poverty in Louisiana by using celebrities to donate and rally support. The intentions are earnest becasue they aim to supply at least 100, 000 jobs to rebuild for Katrina victims.
Although this article does not cite any sources, it lists many of the causes of poverty to an unbalanced distribution of wealth, social injustice, racism, and social inequalty. The article suggests free market and left wing solutions as possible interventions in ending world poverty.
Since 2004, Louisiana has implemented a STOP program that will try to resolve poverty in the state of Louisiania. Many services are linked to STOP like adoption agencies, vocational rehabilation, and other child welfare agencies. The idea is to consolidate and work together to create a soloution as a whole instead of having inconsistencies.
Mark Skousen uses a Searcher approach to solving poverty. Instead of useless charitable donations, he proposes breaking the World Bank down into self employed institutions. Individuals borrow money with specified limits. If the borrower defaults, then he must be reducated in the borrowing process and repayment process. The only negative aspect about this is that these lending agents act like a Cash-n-Go and the interest is very high at over 18%.
Solution to poverty this article suggest using housing vouchers on government developed property. Among other solutions it proposes is to educate and provide better health care. The education they propose is to enable people to find some kind of trade to support themselves.
This page has the ecomony of the United States wrapped all in one. It links current policy trends of solving poverty with social issues, buying or consumer trends, history in deficit spending by the government, and the assistance provided by the government. This site talks about the inequalities of the minium wage and other statistics that are linked to global poverty.
These maps show the current trends of fast food and beer consumption, the placement of Wal-Mart corporations and the poverty that exists in these areas. Notice the states that have the most in all these areas have the most significant poverty rates. People are consuming McDonald's and beer and shopping at Wal-Mart. They are all in poverty and where is this money going back to-the corporation
This image shows how poverty is more prevalent in single-mother families. This poverty rate is higher than all the people impoverished in the United States. The trace this chart from the Civil Rights Era. Although this has dropped, it seems to be on the rise again.
These bar graphs and other charts will show the significant difference in metro and rural areas for poverty in the United States. It also breaks down the demographics in race for those metro and rural areas for poverty.
This map breaks down the poverty in rural counties by race or nationality. African Americans have the highest number in poverty especially in the rural communities. Hispanics are the next, then Indians and I am assuming that Cuacasians stand for other. Irony.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services defines poverty according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Why aren't thier numbers matching. Health and Human Services has a lower dollar amount per family household than the Vensus Bureau. I think they are assuming that the average American works at minium wage and that is not the case. The only information that matches is that poverty was not even considered until the Civil Rights movement.
The U.S. Census Bureau defines poverty as as the size of the family unit and the dollar amount. If we look at the current trends, the U.S. Census Bureau recommendations is that a family of four is considered in a state of poverty if one person is working and bringing in less than 21,134. What's wrong with that picture? Is this assuming that a person is making above minium wage? The Global statistic says that 3 billion people live on less than two dollars a day.
Links the United States poblem of race, education, and poverty to a lack of accountability by the government. The government did not even recognize they had a proble with poverty until the 1960's Civil Rights Movement. The structure of the government still has some inequalities that deal with race and poverty.
More video clips on how Social Security, Education, Corporations, and Global Tax may be causing poverty through its infrastructure. This is an open forum by the World Economic committee.
This video gives shocking footage of how poverty also leads to epidemic and world wide spread of diseases. Poverty is linked not to just starvation, but to disease. Pay attention to how all of them use the same needle to medicate themselves.
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