POverty among women headed households in 2000 census by Urban/Rural Areas...plz its really urgent for my research paper!!1
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I assume you mean the poverty women experience AFTER a divorce?  I am currently reading material covering this question in order to complete a correspondence course on the History of the Family in America from BYU.  From the text: Domestic Revolutions: A Social History of American Family Life*  Ch. 10 pg.216 Quoting from the topic, The Femininzation of Poverty\n   "Today families headed by women are four and a half times as likely to be poorer than families headed by males. Teenagers who have children out of wedlock are seven times more likely to be in poverty. Although female-headed families constitute only 15% of the U.S. population, they account for 50% of the poor population. Teenagers and women in their early twenties who bear illegitimate children constitute a large segment of the population that remains poor and dependent on welfare for long periods of time." \n  Same ch. pg227   "...Economic disruption is the most ovvious consequence of a divorce. In the immeadiate aftermath of a divorce, the income of the divorced woman and her children falls sharply, by 73% in the year following divorce, while the father's income rises by 42%. \nAdding to financial pressures facing the children of divorce is the fact that a majority of divorced men evade court orders to support their children. Recent surveys indicate that only 40% of support orders are fully complied with during the first year after a divorce and that by the tenth year after seperation, the figure falls to 13%."\n  * This text was written by: Steven Mintz & Susan Kellogg, \nPub. 1988 by THE FREE PRESS, A Division of Simon & Schuster, Inc. NY. NY    ISBN 0-02-921291-X\n   Good luck with your paper!!
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Probably Minnesota (my state) or Wisconsin.  We get all the low income system abusers from Illinois and other states.  I would rather see that help go to a disabled woman than some good-for-nothing lazy baby factory that can't keep her legs closed or use birth control to save her life or some even more worthless fully able bodied (censored bad word) man who learned how to work the system instead of just getting a job like the rest of us.
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Begin with the social structure of India: it has a caste system and mention religion, and then look at the history of poverty in India. move onto Mother Teresa's work in Calcutta, then look at modern poverty and what international help is on offer. Finish with a look at how poverty might be affected in the future: imagine if Bob Geldof manages to "Make Poverty History", what might happen to India without the caste system it has relied upon for so long. \n\nBelow are heaps of links to get you started.\nGood luck!
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womens careers started out pretty mixed in regards to your choices above...it appears they were mostly working in the number 2 choice and many were also employed in textiles and manufacturing. thankfully those conditions have improved over the years although it has been slow. here is a great link that covers the history of working women.\nhttp://www.wic.org/misc/history.htm
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Try looking up the gallup polls.  Or go to the U.S. Census website.  I don't know these two websites but you can google them.  (Can I say google on Yahoo!?)  If this helps don't forget to give me ten points.  I have been helping a lot of people with school work lately and sometimes I am the only one to answer so they just take my advice and then delete the question.  :(
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India has a population of over 1 billion. Define common? I was there on vacation and the poverty is terrible. If the person is "middle classs" common then they need to use their abilities/brains/abilities to push forward their progress. Now is a time of importance for India. They have to use all their resources cause everyone is looking at them.
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Hi, please visit these 2 URLs :\nhttp://search.yahoo.com/search?ei=utf-8&fr=slv8-msgr&p=environment%2bdiversity%2bwater\nhttp://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&q=environment%2Bdiversity%2Bwater\n...All the websites, which contain the facts and pics you need, are listed in these 2 URLs. \nSince none of these sites were set-up to meet only your school project's needs (!), no one site will provide what all you need. You will have to take matter from 2 or 3 sites, and summarise them - and then organise the matter in proper order, for your paper.\nBest of Luck, dear.
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I'm a single mother, but I don't consider myself to be poverty stricken.  But I can tell you when all the financial burden is on one individual instead of two, it can create financial hardship.  Even if a single mother works and meets all of her obligations, clearly it's a job that was meant for a mother and father.   Just do an engine search and type in single mothers, there's plenty of resources and information about single mothers.
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try some of these...\nhttp://survey.mamayek.com/index.html
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portugal#Demographics\nI think it contains all u need\nGood luck in ur project :)
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I've never read much about your topic but I think these links might help you with your research paper.  Good luck with it.
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"Poverty" means "the state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions."\n \nOur country has done a great job of almost completely eliminating the true poverty, only to find people redefining it to include more people.  As the standard of living in this country continues to increase, people will adjust their definition of "poverty."\n\nI know a family who has 4 TVs, Satelite, several DVD players & more than enough to eat (the whole family is overweight.)\nThey are "impoverished" because they "can't afford nice clothes, nice cars (they have old cars & hand-me-downs) & other things this modern society now considers necessity.\n\nI think it is not right to use the same word, "poverty", to discribe the family living in a mobile home, buying clothes at garage sales, & eating simple food, like beans & rice, or Spaggetti & meat sauce. This type of family would be considered well-to-do in many places in Mexico! I prefer the phrase "disadvantaged." They need help, but we shouldn't try to act like they are on the same level with those dying of starvation in Africa!\n\nThe poorest people in America are the addicts & mentally ill.  They get caught in a downward spiral until the get the treatment they need, or till they just die on the streets.\n\nP.S.  While some of your stats are telling, some are not.\n . In probably 50% of the country it gets hot enough AC shou not be considered a luxery.\n . TVs & VCRs can be bought at garage sales for $5 so that should not be used to illustrate how they aren't really poor.\n . Cars are required in most areas so people can drive to work & pick up groceries.  And a beaten-up car can be bought pretty cheaply.
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I think you are confusing poverty with race. Poor people have more children. You probably have met people of Mexican heritage you did not even know were Hispanic. You also likely cannot tell the difference between a Puerto Rican and a Hondurian, so they all seem Mexican to you. \n\nThe poor in this country have always had the highest birth rates. This is a vicious cycle as having children is expensive and keeps them locked in poverty. The old welfarce system added incentive as it payed more and more with each child. The new system caps this and thus discourages larger families but it will be some time before we see the net effects of this. \n\nHispanic culture does however measure a man's Machismo with his ability to sire children. Birth control is a touchy subject with many imigrants of Hispanic origion. Some get the shot instead of the pill so that they can use birth control without knowledge/interfence from the boyfriend/husband. Many accept their role as mother of many children. Hispanic culture is not the only culture that has this value. Just one of the more blatent about it. Typically in the past once they are a generation in they tend to adopt a more Western attitude and raise smaller families as they climb the ladder in education and affluence. \n\nAs for teenage pregnacy no race has a monopoly on that. You see it with all races, religions, incomes. More often than not you see the children of the strictest households or loosest households providing the bulk of teen pregnancies. The strictest the teen girl gets in trouble out of fear. The looser ones out of ignorance. The result is the same. A child when a girl is far too young to raise one. both are preventable but the parents are either too strict or care too little about their children or both to prevent it.
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you should be able to find something in the links below... good luck with your paper
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There are middle class Americans of other races who are also impacted by poverty in inner city slums. Is this a race issue or a class issue?\n\nWith that said, the problem relates to everyone because we pay for it. For example, a budget cutback closed the mental health hospital a couple years ago. All the displaced people were literally put on the street with one month supply of whatever medication they were on and a "good luck." Since that time, two people in our community have killed their families. One man killed his mother and a mother killed herself and her children. Either we pay for them to get the services upfront or we pay on the other end of the equation.
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maid around the house, chef in the kitchen, whore in bed, and a lady in public. but i don't think this is the one that you are looking for. is it about piety? and the is it about the social and home spheres? i had it in my woman's history class if the latter is what you are referring to, but i can't remember it.
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Agriculture\n\nAbout two-thirds of all Indians derive their livelihood directly from agriculture, a proportion that is not much smaller than it was at the beginning of the 20th century. The area cultivated, however, has risen steadily and is now considerablymore than half of the nation's total area, a proportion matchedby few countries in the world. Inthe more fertile regions, such as the Indo-Gangetic Plain or the deltas of the eastern coast, the proportion of cultivated to total land often exceeds 90 percent.\n\n\nAlthough the average farm size is only about five acres (two hectares) and is declining, that figure masks the markedly skewed distribution of landholdings. More than half of all farms are less than three acres in size, while much of the remainder is controlled by a small number of relatively affluent peasants and landlords. Most cultivators own farms that provide little more than a bare subsistence for their families. Further, nearly one-third of all agricultural households own no land at all and, along with many submarginal landowners, must work for the larger landholders or must supplement their earnings from some subsidiary occupation, often the one traditionally associated with their caste.\n\nAgricultural technology has been undergoing rapid change inIndia. Government-sponsored, large-scale canal irrigation projects, begun by the British in the mid-19th century, were greatly extended after independence, but there has been a shift in emphasis toward deep wells (called tube wells in India), often privately owned, from which water is raised either by electric or diesel pumps. Important in several parts of India, especially the southeast, is “tank” irrigation, in which water is drawn from small reservoirs created along the coursesof minor streams.\n\nThe demand for chemical fertilizers also has been steadily increasing, although since the late 1960s the introduction of new hybrid, high-yielding varieties of seeds (HYVs), mainly for wheat and secondarily for  rice, has brought about the most dramatic increases in production, especially in Punjab (where their adoption is virtually universal), Haryāna, western Uttar Pradesh, and Gujarāt. So great has been the success of the so-called Green Revolution that India was able to build up buffer  grain stocks sufficient for the country to weather several years of disastrously bad monsoons with virtually no imports or starvation and even managed to become, in some years, a modest net food exporter. During the same period, the production of coarse grains and pulses, which were less in demand than rice and wheat, either did not increase significantly or decreased. Hence, the total per capita grain production has been notably less than that suggested by many protagonists of the Green Revolution, and the threat of major food scarcity has not been eliminated.\n\nMost Indian farms grow little besides food crops, especially cereal grains, and these account for more than three-fifths of the area under cultivation. Foremost among the grains, in terms of both area sown and total yield, is rice, the crop of choice in almost all areas with more than 40 inches (1,000 millimetres) of average annual precipitation, as well as in someirrigated areas. Wheat ranks second in both area sown and total yield, and, because of the use of HYVs, leads all grains in yield per acre. Wheat is grown mainly on the fertile soils of northern and northwestern India in areas with 15 to 40 inchesof average annual precipitation, often with supplementary irrigation. Unlike rice, which is mainly grown during the kharif (summer) season, wheat is primarily a rabi (cool-season) crop. Other important cereals, in descending order of sown acreage, are sorghum (called jowar in India), pearl millet (or bajra), corn (maize), and finger millet (or ragi). All of these typically are grown on relatively infertile soils unsuitable for rice or wheat, while corn cultivation is also favoured in hilly and mountainous reg