Browsing by Subject "poverty"
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(2015-07-30)Persistent food insecurity and hunger increase the risk of illness, psychological dysfunction and lower educational achievement. Even though these burdens affect society at large, they are most acutely felt by the individuals ...
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(1993)Previous research confirms that some form of intervention is needed in urban schools to decrease the rising drop-out rate as well as teenage pregnancy rate and juvenile crime rate. This project can introduce intervention ...
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(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2023-08-17)The Business-Cycle Index increased from 226 in May 2023 to 228 in June 2023. The local unemployment rate decreased from 3.4% in May 2023 to 3.3% in June 2023. Local nonfarm employment increased by 0.3% from May to June. ...
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(Educational Studies, 2016)
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(2016)A non-experimental design was used to determine whether the verbal scores of low-income gifted fifth graders (n = 38) differed from those of their higher-income peers (n = 83). The Otis-Lennon School Ability Test, Eighth ...
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(2018-05-03)This essay contains three essays in applied microeconomics. The first and second paper study the China’s household saving rate and the third studies the economic policy in China. In Volume 119 of the Journal of Political ...
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(2009-06-02)Solenopsis invicta, the red imported fire ant, has recently become associated with Antonina graminis, an invasive pest, and Neodusmetia sangwani, biological control agent, and maybe negatively affecting established biological ...
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(Texas Agricultural Extension Service, 1977)
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(Texas A&M University, 2005-02-17)This project examines how Presidents Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, and Bill Clinton discussed issues of poverty and welfare from Johnsons declaration of War on Poverty in 1964 to Clintons ...
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(Adult Education Research Conference, 2009)The purpose of this qualitative study was to determine the extent to which middle-class Black people adhere to the same meta-narrative that is currently used to tell the story of African-Americans. Using a qualitative ...
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(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2023-05-02)In 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson declared a ‘war on poverty.’ Since then, the U.S. poverty rate declined from 19% to 11.6% in 2021, but one may wonder why it has not dropped further. In this issue of PERCspectives ...
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(2013-03-13)The association between intelligence and achievement has been investigated by many researchers, and a moderate to strong correlation between the two has been repeatedly found. Few researchers, however, have studied the ...
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(2012-02-14)Sociology at its core has always been interested in understanding how society works. Previous studies on social stratification have sought to outline who gets what, when, and why. This project introduces the where element ...
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(1987)A survey of twenty-two low income Bryan residents was conducted to determine the expectations and aspirations of this sample in regards to job opportunities, housing, and educational attainment. The culture of poverty ...
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(2016)The purpose of this study was to describe the relationship between the verbal and the nonverbal intelligence scores of students from poverty. It also explored how students’ verbal and nonverbal scores differentiated by ...
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(2015-11-16)Literature has consistently documented that children raised in poverty struggle to achieve academic success, in part, because they often enter school with low academic literacy. Academic literacy is usually defined as the ...
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(Mosbacher Institute for Trade, Economics & Public Policy, 2014-12)Since the start of Lyndon B. Johnson’s War on Poverty, the federal government has spent vast sums of money trying to lower U.S. poverty rates. Yet, despite the repeated allocation of massive financial resources, overall ...
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(2022-08-03)In democracies, how can coercive security policies that violate the rights of many be so pervasive, even when those most affected by their negative consequences are a large share of the electorate? I argue that the explanation ...