Poverty shows children in unclean conditions and asks your student to write a description of what they think life is like for these children.
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Seven units that explore the interconnected causes and effects of poverty. What does it mean to be poor? What are the best ways to fight poverty? Activities, discussion, role playing.
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At the turn of the 20th century, the number of business mergers skyrocketed. Among manufacturing companies, mergers jumped from three in 1896 to sixty-three only three years later. Just as quickly the wave of mergers subsided--by 1904, there were only three mergers. This unprecedented wave of mergers was marked by horizontal consolidation--the simultaneous merger of many or all competitors in an industry into a single, giant enterprise. Many of the consolidated firms created in this period--DuPont, U.S. Steel, and International Harvester--remained major corporations throughout the 20th century. Contemporaries reacted to the great merger movement with alarm. Some used satire to express their concern. In this poem published in the New York Journal , George V. Hobart lampooned the wide range of trusts created by merger mania.
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This World Bank site provides resources and support for people working to understand and attempting to alleviate poverty. Among the topics covered (often at the country level) on this searchable and content rich site are: ---Understanding Poverty ---Data on Poverty ---Culture and Povety ---HIPC (Heavily Indebted Poor Countries Debt Initative) ---Inequality (measurement and maping) ---The Literature of Poverty (writings from many cultures) ---Poverty and Health ---Poverty Reduction Strategies ---Safety Nets and Transfers ---Social Capital for Development ---Social Policy in East Asia ---Voices of the Poor ---World Bank Activities --- World Development Report(full text) --- PovertyNet Newsletter(full text)
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Hope Kelly reports on an increase in the infant mortality rate since last year. Kelly reviews statistics on the infant mortality rate in Massachusetts and in Boston. Kelly notes that there is a wide discrepancy between the infant mortality rates in the white and African American communities. Kelly reports that two out of three infant deaths in Boston are African American infants. Kelly interviews David Mulligan (Commissioner of Public Health) and Howard Spivak (Deputy Commissioner of Public Health) about the rising infant mortality rate. Kelly reports that the state of Massachusetts has implemented prenatal care programs for all pregnant women. Kelly interviews Judith Kurland (Commissioner, Boston Health and Hospitals) about the prenatal care programs. Kurland says that the programs do not reach the women who are most in need of them. Kurland says that an increase in poverty has resulted in an increase of the infant mortality rates. Kelly reviews statistics concerning teenage pregnancy in the state. Kelly notes that teenage pregnancy is becoming increasingly common. Kelly's report is accompanied by footage of infants in a hospital nursery and footage of a doctor examining a baby.
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The word "tramp" came into common usage in the 1870s as a disparaging description of homeless men thrown out of work by the economic depression and forced to take to the road in search of a job or food. Many Americans viewed tramps with a combination of fear and disgust. Fears of the "tramp menace" that had been so strong in the seventies were revived during the even more devastating depression that began in 1893. Most government officials and business leaders reacted with horror at the prospect of jobless men wandering the roads. A notable exception was the Populist governor of Kansas, Lorenzo Dow Lewelling. His executive proclamation of December 4, 1893, defended the rights of the homeless against arbitrary arrest by local police. His proclamation, published in the Topeka Daily Capital on December 5, 1893, became known as the "Tramp Circular." Lewelling's sympathy for the tramping unemployed may have come, in part, from personal experience; he himself had wandered the roads in search of work in the 1870s depression.
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Poverty shows children in unclean conditions and asks your student to write a description of what they think life is like for these children.
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"The Southern Poverty Law Center is a non-profit organization that combats hate, intolerance, and discrimination through education and litigation." The Southern Poverty Law Center generally handles civil rights cases that affect a large number of people and lawsuits against extremist groups that promote violence. Center litigation (civil rights, hate groups, prison conditions) and courtroom victories are described. The Intelligence Project section of the Center's web site: ---presents quarterly issues of Intelligence Report from Winter 1997 to present ---lists incidents of hate crimes and hate group activities for the previous year. Incident reports are drawn primarily from media sources and initial police reports ---lists active hate groups in the United States, by state and by type of group (Ku Klux Klan, Neo-Nazi, Racist Skinhead, Christian Identity, Black Separatist, Other and Neo-Confederate) ---lists active "patriot" groups in the United States by state ---lists and describes ten ways to fight hate ---describes the Center's Militia Task Force and KlanWatch programs The Teaching Tolerance section of the web site: ---describes the Teaching Tolerance program, lists educational resources, offers lesson plans and classroom activities ---presents articles from Teaching Tolerance magazine ---presents 101 Tools for Tolerance, simple ideas for promoting equity and celebrating diversity
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Anti-hate litigation
Anti-New World Order groups
Anti-Semitism
Antigovernment groups
Aryan Nations
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Black Separatist groups
Black Separatists
Bond, Julian
Christian Identity
Civil rights litigation
Civil Rights Memorial
Civil rights workers
Classroom activities
Conflict resolution
Correctional facilities
DEES, MORRIS
Directories
Disabled
Discrimination against homosexuals
Discrimination against the disabled
Discrimination against the handicapped
Domestic terrorism
Ethnic relations
Extremist groups
Extremists
Far Right
Handicapped
Hate crimes
HATE GROUPS
Hate incidents
Hate violence
Health care
Homophobia
Human rights
Intelligence Report
Juveniles
KLANWATCH PROJECT
KU KLUX KLAN
Levin, Joe
Levin, Joseph
Lin, Maya
Litigation
Mentally ill
Mentally retarded
MILITIA
Militia Task Force
Militias
Model Anti-Militia Statute
National Alliance
Neo-Confederate groups
Neo-Confederates
Neo-Nazi groups
Neo-Nazis
New World Order
Paramilitary groups
Patriot groups
Patriot movement
Patriot movements
Periodicals
Poverty law
Prison conditions
Prisoner rights
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Privatization
Race relations
Racism
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Hate crimes -- United States
Hate groups -- United States
Hate groups -- United States -- Directories
Ku Klux Klan (1915-)
Race discrimination -- United States
Racism -- United States
Southern Poverty Law Center
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Seven units that explore the interconnected causes and effects of poverty. What does it mean to be poor? What are the best ways to fight poverty? Activities, discussion, role playing.
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Provides HHS Poverty Guidelines since 1982, Poverty Guidelines, the Poverty Thresholds, and the Development and History of U.S. Poverty Lines.
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