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| | Whatever: Being Poor |
 | | Being poor is spending your non-working time running between the grocery store where you cash checks to the bank where you deposit the cash to cover the previous checks that you cashed to buy bus tickets to another town so that you could interview for a better job than the one that you've got now. | | | That a poor person can also be an asshole, or a wife-beater, or a Republican voter doesn't makes the fact of their poverty any less. | | | Being poor is taking 5 years to finish high school because you have to work to pay for your private schooling. |
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| | AllRefer.com - India - The Congress Indian Information Resource |
| | The process culminated in April 1992 at the All-India Congress (I) Committee at Tirupati, Andhra Pradesh, where elections were held for the ten vacant seats in the Congress Working Committee. | | | The Congress (I) problems in these states, which until 1989 had been bastions of its strength, were reinforced by the party's poor showing in the November 1993 state elections. | | | In Bihar the seats won by the Congress (I) fell from four to one, and the Congress (I) share of the vote was reduced from 28 percent to 22 percent. |
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| | Rediff On The NeT: Pawar wants Kesri to nominate him to CWC |
| | Realising that he has a slim chance of being elected to the Congress Working Committee, Sharad Pawar, leader of the Congress in the Lok Sabha, has begun a discreet campaign to persuade party president Sitaram Kesri to nominate him to the CWC. | | | Senior Congress officials point out that Pawar knows his chances of being elected to the CWC are poor. | | | However, the Congress president has not yet constituted the committee which will oversee the establishment of the CWC. |
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| | The Poor Law: |
| | But rising expenditure on the poor and unrest among the working classes in the early 1830s stimulated the Poor law Report of 1834, followed rapidly by the Poor Law Amendment Act of the same year. | | | Parishes were grouped into Poor law Unions to enable expenditure on adequate workhouses and the old Select Vestries of churchwardens and overseers were replaced by elected boards of Guardians, responsible to ratepayers and the Poor Law Board. | | | By 1937 the able-bodied maintained by the Poor Law were absorbed into the new scheme. |
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| | The Tribune, Chandigarh, India - Editorial |
| | Mrs Sonia Gandhi as Congress President too has shown that she can win elections for herself if not for the party, but her poor communication skills are a big handicap for both. | | | This is reflected in the lacklustre exercise of reconstituting the CWC. | | | The Congress as a cohesive political unit ceased to exist after the first post-Independence split in the party in 1969. |
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| | David Griffith, Ed Kissam: Working Poor - Print |
| | Working Poor investigates the lives and working conditions of migrant farmworkers in seven regions of the United States. | | | The Poverty of Conventional Thought: Social Theory and the Working Poor | | | The community studies in this volume include descriptions and analyses of the low-income neighborhoods of Immokalee, Florida; Parlier, California; Weslaco, Texas; and Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, where growers and farm contractors put immigrants to work in fruit and vegetable harvests. |
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| | [Hpn] SF Chronicle op-ed: A poor woman's place -- is at work |
| | Anyone who listened to the language surrounding the welfare reauthorization bill knows that poor and single mothers are not described as "stay-at-home moms." They are not lauded as women doing "the hardest job in the world." Welfare mothers are, rather, women who need to discover the "dignity and self-worth" that comes from real jobs. | | | It said: A (poor) mother's place is in the workforce. | | | But we have never offered the social support to make working motherhood, well, work. |
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| | Sycamore Close :: The Reform Of The Poor Law |
| | With the Poor Law ammendment putting an end to the system of doles in aid of wages which had turned workers into paupers, masters now had to pay their employees a living wage and the working classes gradually recovered their self respect. | | | The Poor Law Commissioners maintained their position until 1847, when they were replaced by the Poor Law Board, the president of which was always a member of the government. | | | The recommendations of the Poor Law Commission were accepted by the government of the day and incorporated into the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834, which remained in operation for nearly a century. |
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| | About the Working Families Party |
| | The goal of the Working Families Party is to more forcefully inject the issues of working-class, middle-class, and poor people—like jobs, health care, education, and housing—into the public debate, and hold candidates and elected officials accountable on those issues. | | | The Working Families Party was launched in June 1998 by a coalition of community organizations, unions, and individuals. | | | We fight for families, parents, children, seniors, students - all of us. |
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| | Nashville City Paper |
| | If work among the poor were raised to 2000 hours per year per family, meaning one adult in the household working 40 hours a week, then 75 percent of poor children in America would be lifted out of poverty. | | | Each year, 1.3 million more children are born out-of-wedlock, with most immediately becoming classified as poor. | | | If poor mothers simply married the fathers of their children, 75 percent of the children classified as poor would immediately be lifted out of poverty. |
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| | The HIPC Debt Relief Initiative, 07/14 |
| | HIPC debt relief is only one of the ways in which the U.S. is working to assist the world's poorest countries improve the lives of their citizens. | | | The Administration is working with Congress to resolve these funding issues. | | | The HIPC initiative, the largest debt relief program for the poorest countries, was launched in September 1996 as the first comprehensive effort to help those countries free themselves from unsustainable debt and debt payment burdens that consumed significant portions of their national governments' funds. |
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| | Making Services Work for the Poor |
| | The citizen-policymaker link is working either when citizens can hold policymakers accountable for public services that benefit the poor or when policymakers care about the health and education of poor people. | | | That happens if they can avoid poor providers while rewarding good providers with their custom, and if their voices are heard by politicians, that is, when service providers have incentives to serve the poor. | | | Means tested voucher schemes; community-managed schools; and transparent, rules-based programs are likely to work for poor people. |
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| | Food For The Poor: News Room |
| | Deerfield Beach, FL (August 31, 2005) - Food For The Poor, the foremost international relief agency working in the Caribbean and Central America today, has over 50 tractor-trailer loads of emergency relief supplies enroute to the hardest hit areas of Mississippi, Louisiana and Alabama, and plans to send an additional 150 containers. | | | Food For The Poor welcomes donations of funds that will assist in the transportation of the aid. | | | Food For The Poor is an international relief and development organization that has implemented a highly efficient strategy for aiding the destitute, and remains the #1 relief agency in the Caribbean and Central America. |
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| | Re: Ed Loebl (Watchseller.com) - poor grading standards |
| | Re: Ed Loebl (Watchseller.com) - poor grading standards -- J. Law -- 9/30/04 17:17 | | | Re: Ed Loebl (Watchseller.com) - poor grading standards -- J. Law -- 10/11/04 08:48 | | | Re: Ed Loebl (Watchseller.com) - poor grading standards -- attila aszodi -- 6/4/05 20:08 |
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| | Poor knowledge workers? News.blog CNET News.com |
| | "According to a report on the working poor issued in 2002 by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, college graduates account for only about 1.4 percent of the 30-plus million Americans below the poverty line. | | | His poll asks computer programmers, writers, designers and the like to declare themselves as poor (not earning enough to pay the bills); middle (earning enough to get by); or rich (earning enough to save and splurge). | | | Of 112 responses so far, 32 called themselves poor, 49 said middle and 32 as rich. |
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| | Multicapitalist Party Multicapitalism Capitalism for all people equally |
| | Always making laws to confiscate the money of the middle and working classes to fund the votes of the poor masses, that's their goal and it's be working for 80 years. | | | The middle and working classes are already rebelling and pushing us back into a time when the industrial revolution had us all enslaved. | | | And when they have worked hard they will be rested and allowed leisure and be given dignity and when they they have given all and can no longer work they will be cared for until they pass. |
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| | WBonline |
| | For the high income countries, 77.9 years; for the low income countries, 59.1 years; for the heavily indebted poor countries, 51.2 years. | | | For the high income countries, $27,020; for the low income countries, $420; for the heavily indebted poor countries, $310. | | | For the high income countries, 0.6%; for the low income countries, 1.9%; for the heavily indebted poor countries, 2.3%. |
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| | rpacall2004 |
| | We especially welcome contributions from those often excluded from or marginalized in philosophy, including people of color, gays and lesbians, persons with disabilities, poor and working class persons. | | | We also hope for submissions from other nations with social movements against the present global order, and from graduate students, who represent the future of radical philosophy. | | | They may look at racism, class exploitation, male dominance, heterosexism, able-ism and other forms of domination. |
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| | Working poor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Working poor is a term used to describe individuals and families who maintain full-time jobs but remain in relative poverty due to low levels of pay and dependent expenses. | | | Sowell claimed that "census data show that most people who are working are not poor and most people who are poor are not working", and that workers who were part-time or under the age of 25 should not be counted as working poor [4]. | | | In 2004, the bulk of the working poor in the United States and other western countries occupy unskilled and semi-skilled positions in the secondary labor market, predominantly in the service sector. |
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| | The Working Poor |
| | Welfare reform has helped to draw attention to the issues facing working families who remain in poverty, and has blurred the distinctions between welfare recipients and the working poor. | | | This web page provides links to descriptive information on the working poor and their circumstances, as well as to policy issues regarding the working poor. | | | The Plight of the Working Poor, by David Ellwood, Brookings Institution, November 1999 |
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| | Madagascar - Working Poor |
| | ...who could be classified as the working poor in developing countries in 1997. | | | Most of the residents are "working poor" and have limited education and job | | | ILO-The size of the working poor population in developing... |
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| | Problems Facing the Working Poor |
| | Fourth, the working poor-are the fastest-growing segment of the poverty population. | | | Most (52%) of the working poor would not b e able to work their way out of poverty even if they held full-time year-round employment because their wages are too low. | | | Thus the working poor face not only the problem of holding jobs that pay adequate wages and provide steady earnings, but also more difficult problems of having health conditions that limit their ability to work. |
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| | Working Poor Families Project |
| | The Working Poor Families Project was developed and is managed on behalf of the funding foundations by the consulting firm of Brandon Roberts + Associates. | | | The indicators included characteristics of the working poor families, and state policies and practices concerning education and training, employment opportunities, economic development, and conditions of employment and support. | | | The Working Poor Families Project was created in 2001 to assess state efforts to assist the working poor. |
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| | Working poor - definition of Working poor in Encyclopedia |
| | One cannot deny that some proportion of the working poor are in their given situations as a result of poor decisions, but once an individual falls into this class, it is difficult to escape. | | | Working poor is a term used to describe individuals who maintain full-time jobs but remain in poverty. | | | The working poor rarely have adequate health coverage, and are frequently poorly educated. |
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| | CHILDREN OF THE WORKING POOR |
| | Among the working poor, one of every six children is foreign-born and one of every three born in the U.S. has a foreign-born parent. | | | The extent to which children of the working poor--whose families earn less than 200% of the federal poverty level--have access to fewer health resources or experience more barriers to care than other children has been obscured because they are usually grouped with poor or uninsured children who lack health resources for different reasons. | | | Children in all working- poor families are more likely to be uninsured than any other children, and more likely to do without needed care. |
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| | Thomas Sowell: Big lie of the year |
| | However, my feeling is that it may be "the working poor." While there are working people who are poor, most poor people are not working full time, not working very long, or not working at all. | | | By focussing on those who work hard all their lives and still remain poor -- no more than 3 percent of the population -- and telling their personal stories endlessly, liberals can present the Big Lie with a human face. | | | That lie is the implication that the purpose of all this hand-wringing is to help the poor. |
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| | The "Working Poor" Scam by Thomas Sowell -- Capitalism Magazine |
| | As for "What can be done?" that is a misleading question because the article is about what other people can do for the "working poor," not what they can do for themselves, much less what they did in the past -- or failed to do -- that led to their having such low earning capacity. | | | First of all, Census data show that most people who are working are not poor and most people who are poor are not working. | | | So we are really talking about one-third of one fourth -- or fewer than 10 percent of the workers -- who are "working poor" in any full-time, long-run sense. |
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| | Whatever: Being Poor |
| | Being poor is spending your non-working time running between the grocery store where you cash checks to the bank where you deposit the cash to cover the previous checks that you cashed to buy bus tickets to another town so that you could interview for a better job than the one that you've got now. | | | Being poor is never telling your girlfriend that the house she meets you in front of is two blocks from where you actually live, because you never want her to know that you live in a trailer. | | | Being poor is discovering that that letter from Duke University, naming you as one of three advanced students in your class invited to test out of HS early into their scholarship program, is just so much firestarter because the $300 it costs to take the test may as well be $3 million. |
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| | VERBAL WORKING MEMORY AND SENTENCE COMPREHENSION |
| | Various forms of evidence are considered: the relationship between individual differences in working memory and individual differences in the efficiency of syntactic processing; the effect of concurrent verbal memory load on syntactic processing; and syntactic processing in patients with poor short term memory, poor working memory, or aphasia. | | | The working memory demands exerted at a given point of processing in a task are usually taken to be the sum of the working memory requirements of the functions that are active at that point in the task (Just and Carpenter, 1992). | | | The experimental results suggest that the verbal working memory system specialized for assigning the syntactic structure of a sentence and for using that structure in determining sentence meaning is distinct from the working memory system that underlies the use of sentence meaning to accomplish further functions. |
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