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	Poverty line - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The poverty line is useful as an economic tool with which to measure such people and consider socioeconomic reforms such as welfare and unemployment insurance to reduce poverty.
		Using a poverty line is problematic because having an income marginally above it is not substantially different from having an income marginally below it: the negative effects of poverty tend to be continuous rather than discrete, and the same low income affects different people in different ways.
		Determining the poverty line is usually done by finding the total cost of all the essential resources that an average human adult consumes in one year.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Poverty_line (1108 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Poverty
		Voluntary poverty is the object of one of the evangelical counsels.
		It is the apostolic poverty of the Christian religion which is practised in the highest degree by missionaries in pagan countries, and to a certain degree by all priests: all these voluntarily give up certain possessions and advantages in order to devote themselves entirely to the service of God.
		The vow of poverty is ordinarily attached to a religious profession; a person may however bind himself to a modest and frugal life, or even to follow the direction of an adviser in the use of his property.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/12324a.htm (2718 words)

	Cycle of poverty - The Encyclopedia
		In economics and sociology, the cycle of poverty, or poverty cycle is a social phenomena whereby poverty-stricken individuals exhibit a tendency to remain poor throughout their lifespan and in many cases across generations.
		The cycle of poverty has been described as a catch-22 and a feedback loop, as it occurs because the financial resources necessary to get out of poverty, namely productive capital, which some critics believe can only be obtained if the individual has financial resources in the first place.
		The cycle of poverty is often cited by opponents of capitalism, such as communists, anarchists, and others as an argument against the capitalist system.
	www.the-encyclopedia.com /description/Cycle_of_poverty (1762 words)

	Feminization of Poverty History @ NaturalResearch.org (Natural Research)
		The trend since 1970 that has women accounting for a growing proportion of those below the poverty line.
		The term "feminization of poverty" was meant to mean that the experience of poverty is gendered but has instead become wrongly understood as referring to the idea that most poor people are women or that women are disproportionately represented among those living in poverty.
		In 2000, 11% of all families in the United States lived in poverty, but 28% of families headed by single mothers did so (Dalaker.
	www.naturalresearch.org /encyclopedia/Feminization_of_poverty (311 words)

	Poverty - Adoption Encyclopedia
		Birthmothers who choose adoption are less likely to live in poverty than are single women who choose to rear their children, according to data available from the National Center for Health Statistics and numerous studies.
		Birthmothers in the United States who choose adoption are also more likely to be middle-class women from stable homes.
	encyclopedia.adoption.com /entry/poverty/282/1.html (196 words)

	Poverty line in the United States - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The first official poverty line for the United States was developed by Mollie Orshansky for the Social Security Administration in 1964.
		In the United States, official statistics on poverty and the official poverty line are kept by the US Census Bureau.
		Criticism is also made against the poverty line's non-counting of income other than cash income, which includes many welfare benefits.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Poverty_line_in_the_United_States (730 words)

	Poverty line - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The poverty line is useful as an economic tool with which to measure such people and consider socioeconomic reforms such as welfare and unemployment insurance to reduce poverty.
		Using a poverty line is problematic because having an income marginally above it is not substantially different from having an income marginally below it: the negative effects of poverty tend to be continuous rather than discrete, and the same low income affects different people in different ways.
		Determining the poverty line is usually done by finding the total cost of all the essential resources that an average human adult consumes in one year.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Poverty_line (1108 words)

	Voluntary simplicity - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Monks in the Middle Ages were possibly the earliest practitioners of organised lifestyles of voluntary poverty in Europe, though the use of fasts of short duration is common in many cultures throughout history.
		Voluntary simplicity is a lifestyle considered by its adherents to be a sustainable, ecologically sensitive alternative to the typical, western consumerist lifestyle.
		Voluntary simplicity can certainly include high-tech components - indeed, computers, photovoltaic arrays, wind and air turbines, and a variety of other cutting-edge technologies can be used to make a simple lifestyle within mainstream culture easier and more sustainable than simply "dropping out".
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Voluntary_simplicity (1108 words)

	poverty - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about poverty
		Absolute poverty, where people lack the necessary food, clothing, or shelter to survive, can be distinguished from relative poverty, which has been defined as the inability of a citizen to participate fully in economic terms in the society in which he or she lives.
		Many people live in poverty, and as there is a high birth rate and large proportion of young people, the problem is likely to intensify in the future as the growing population seek food, housing, and employment.
		By this measure, in 1996 the Child Poverty Action Group reported that a quarter of the UK population – 13 to 14 million people – were living in poverty; the figure is more than double the number in 1979.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /poverty (726 words)

	pvertypt.htm
		Poverty Point Earthworks: Evolutionary Milestones of the Americas was produced by the Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism; the Office of State Parks; and Louisiana Public Broadcasting (LPB); further information about the video can be found on the Poverty Point Earthworks page of LPB's website.
		Poverty Point's inhabitants imported certain essential supplies from great distances.
		Projectile points and other stone tools found at Poverty Point were made from raw materials which originated in the Ouachita and Ozark Mountains and in the Ohio and Tennessee River valleys.
	www.crt.state.la.us /crt/parks/poverty/pvertypt.htm (726 words)

	Met Special Topics Page Poverty Point (2000-1000 B.C.)
		Poverty Point, about 1350 B.C., in a reconstruction drawing indicating houses situated upon the six concentric man-made ridges as they abut the Bayou Maçon.
		Poverty Point is located in the lower Mississippi valley of Louisiana, near both the Gulf Coast and the confluence of six major rivers.
		Objects excavated at Poverty Point and related sites were often made of materials that originated in distant places—implying viable trade networks—and include chipped stone projectile points and tools, ground stone plummets, gorgets and vessels, and shell and stone beads.
	www.metmuseum.org /toah/hd/popo/hd_popo.htm (726 words)

	Poverty in the United States - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The "absolute poverty line" is the threshold below which families or individuals are considered to be lacking the resources to meet the basic needs for healthy living; having insufficient income to provide the food, shelter and clothing needed to preserve health.
		Using radically different definitions, two major groups of advocates have claimed variously (a) that the United States has eliminated poverty over the last century; or (b) that it has such a severe crisis of poverty that it ought to devote significantly more resources to the alleged problem.
		The "Orshansky Poverty Thresholds" form the basis for the current measure of poverty in the U.S. Mollie Orshansky was an economist working for the Social Security Administration (SSA).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Poverty_in_the_United_States (726 words)

	William of Ockham [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
		They supported his strict views, and afterward they spent some time in the dioceses of Ferrara and Bologna, urgino, considering the absolute poverty of Christ and the apostles as a necessary ideal.
		The result of this line of reasoning is the absolute subjectivity of all concepts and universals and the limitation of knowledge to the mind and its concepts-although these are real entities because of their subjective existence in the mind, reproducing the actual according to the constitution of the mind.
		As to his unbounded power and absolute will, Ockham distinguishes potentia absolute and potentia ordinate, the two being, however, only different modes of considering a power which is essentially one.
	www.iep.utm.edu /o/ockham.htm (726 words)

	Poverty - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Poverty is studied by many social, scientific and cultural disciplines.
		For example, the relief of poverty was recognised as a legal charitable purpose by the English Statute of Charitable Uses (Statute of Elizabeth) in 1601.
		Poverty may be seen as the collective condition of poor people, or of poor groups, and in this sense entire nation-states are sometimes regarded as poor.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Poverty (726 words)

	Roots of the Catholic Worker Movement: Voluntary Poverty at Heart of CW Movement
		Voluntary poverty is this freedom from wage restraints that allows a better use of one's skills and creative resources without the inhibition of government regulation and without the albatross of bureaucracy always and ever raising its ugly head and lurking in the background.
		Voluntary poverty consists not only in simply living simply, nor does it only consist in sharing the struggle of the poor, but is a step toward freedom, allowing persons to use their skills as a gift to society, while at the same time having sufficient resources to survive destitution.
		Voluntary poverty brings a whole new vision, dimension and identification with the poor that is missing in the statements of those promoting justice, not charity.
	www.cjd.org /paper/roots/rpoverty.html (726 words)

	The Three Ages of the Interior Life - Part 3
		The value of voluntary poverty may even appear to those who have not faith, because they see the disorders which arise from cupidity, the concupiscence of the eyes, the desire of riches, avarice, the excesses of capitalism, and the forgetfulness of the poor who are dying of hunger.
		Voluntary poverty can be practiced either in the midst of the abundance of worldly goods, when the spirit is not attached to them, or in destitution when one bears it generously for love of God.
		Voluntary poverty and confidence in God go hand in hand; the more detached man is from earthly goods, the more he desires those of heaven; and the less he relies on human helps, the more he places his confidence in God's help.
	www.christianperfection.info /tta63.htm (726 words)

	The Ethics of Poverty Reduction
		Poverty reduction as a matter of social justice is a very recent view that has evolved from two main fronts: from critics of the negative unintended and intended consequences of capitalism and free markets, and because of the lack of success in reducing poverty of most development and aid programs in the South.
		Poverty as lack of certain moral principles was a common view in the 18th and 19th centuries in industrialized societies.
		First, poverty is very commonly constructed as a moral issue in the sense that poverty refers to the lack of a particular type of morality or to the lack of certain moral traits.
	www.svf.uib.no /sif/kurs_v2002.html (726 words)

	Extreme poverty - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Extreme poverty is a severe state of poverty in which people are unable to have basic human necessities, such as food, clothes, and shelter.
		Absolute poverty is characterised by a lack of food, inadequate shelter and, in some cases, no shelter, lack of health care or medical services, education or transport system.
		Signs indicating a person is living in extreme poverty include suffering from hunger, malnutrition, and disease.
	www.americancanyon.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Extreme_poverty (232 words)

	Bay of Plenty - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Cook named it the Bay of Plenty after he noticed the abundant food supplies at several Māori villages he visited on the coast, in stark contrast to the observations he had made earlier in Poverty Bay.
		The bay stretches from the Coromandel Peninsula in the west to Cape Runaway in the east.
		The region is bound by the Kaimai and Mamaku Ranges in the west and extends inland to the sparsely populated forest lands around Rotorua, Kawerau and Murupara.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bay_of_Plenty (311 words)

	Poverty Bay - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Poverty Bay is the largest of several small bays on the east coast of New Zealand's North Island to the north of Hawke Bay.
		The city of Gisborne is located on the northern shore of the bay.
		Cook was unable to gain many of the provisions he and his crew needed at the bay, and for this reason gave it its name.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Poverty_Bay (165 words)

	Encyclopedia: Poverty
		For example, the relief of poverty was recognised as a legal charitable purpose by the English Statute of Charitable Uses (Statute of Elizabeth) in 1601.
		In economics and sociology, the cycle of poverty, or poverty cycle is a social phenomena whereby poverty-stricken individuals exhibit a tendency to remain poor throughout their lifespan and in many cases across generations.
		Poverty may be seen as the collective condition of poor people, or of poor groups, and in this sense entire nation-states are sometimes regarded as poor.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Poverty (3312 words)

	Apostolic
		Apostolic poverty Apostolic poverty is a Roman Catholic Church.
		Apostolic Assembly of the Faith in Christ Jesus The Apostolic Assembly of the Faith in Christ Jesus is the oldest Spanis...
		One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church One Holy catholic and apostolic Church is a phrase that appears partly in the Gre...
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /topics/apostolic.html (3312 words)

	Can high-inequality developing countries escape absolute poverty?
		The first is that higher inequality may entail a lower subsequent rate of growth in average income, and hence (it is argued) lower rate of progress in reducing absolute poverty.
		Is it possible that inequality could sometimes be so high as to stifle prospects of reducing absolute poverty, even when other initial conditions and policies are favorable to growth?
		There are two arguments as to why initial distribution matters to subsequent rates of poverty reduction.
	www.worldbank.org /research/peg/wps11 (3312 words)

	Economic Well-Being
		Poverty has a negative effect on child well-being, whether a family is poor because of reliance on income-support programs such as AFDC or because of the inadequacy of earned wages.
		Total number of children in poverty is 6.1 million.
		Rhode Island educators, particularly in the core cities, report a rise in the number of students moving in and out of their school communities during the course of an academic year.
	www.brown.edu /Departments/Taubman_Center/kidscnt/97fbook/econwb.html (3858 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Poverty
		Voluntary poverty is the object of one of the evangelical counsels.
		If voluntary poverty is ennobled by the motive which inspires it, the poverty which puts aside temporal possessions for the service of God and the salvation of souls is the most noble of all.
		It is the apostolic poverty of the Christian religion which is practised in the highest degree by missionaries in pagan countries, and to a certain degree by all priests: all these voluntarily give up certain possessions and advantages in order to devote themselves entirely to the service of God.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/12324a.htm (3858 words)

	Before the Crib
		Voluntary poverty becomes a powerful means of sanctification, because it detaches from the world and the three concupiscences which run it — love of pleasure, love of money and love of honor.
		Voluntary poverty is the best means to secure peace; nobody envies one who has nothing and he who has chosen poverty envies nobody.
		Poverty neither sanctifies nor edifies unless it is poverty in spirit, unless it is voluntary.
	www.catholiceducation.org /articles/religion/re0502.html (3858 words)

	Welfare trap - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		the poverty trap refers the position when in-work income-tested benefit payments are reduced as income rises, combined with income tax and other deductions, with the effect of discouraging higher paid work whether that involves working longer hours or acquiring skills.
		The welfare trap is a name for the phenomenon by which taxation and welfare systems jointly contribute to keep people on social insurance.
		An example of how the welfare trap works is as follows: A person on welfare finds a part time job that will pay her a minimum wage of five dollars per hour, eight hours per week.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Poverty_trap (3858 words)

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