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5 unusual facts about poverty


Clap Yo Hands

"Clap Yo Hands" was the first single released from Naughty by Nature's fourth album, Poverty's Paradise.

Just-world hypothesis

These studies on victims of violence, illness, and poverty and others like them have provided consistent support for the link between observers' just-world beliefs and their tendency to blame victims for their suffering.

Legal Services Corp. v. Velazquez

The purpose of the act was to provide government-funded legal aid to indigent clients, funded through grants to regional entities throughout the country.

Mhee Noi

The next single, "Land of Shit" presented about vandalism, Poverty, Political corruption, The Riots from the P.A.D. and the NUFDA all happened in Thailand.

Thomas Demetrios Lambros

As a common pleas judge, he established a voluntary public defender program to provide free counsel to indigent defendants, as well as a mandatory domestic relations reconciliation program.


Absalom, Absalom!

Absalom, Absalom! details the rise and fall of Thomas Sutpen, a white man born into poverty in western Virginia who comes to Mississippi with the complementary aims of gaining wealth and becoming a powerful family patriarch.

Adam Swift

Swift is a member of Giving What We Can, an international society for the promotion of poverty relief.

African-American family structure

The Moynihan Report, written by Assistant Secretary of Labor, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, initiated the debate on whether the African-American family structure leads to negative outcomes, such as poverty, teenage pregnancy and gaps in education or whether the reverse is true and the African American family structure is a result of institutional discrimination, poverty and other segregation.

Anapu

Anapu attracted international attention on February 12, 2005, when the American-born, naturalized Brazilian citizen Sister Dorothy Stang—member of the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur, and advocate for the rural poor of the Amazon Rainforest—was murdered there.

Ao dai

In the Vietnamese film The White Silk Dress (2007), an ao dai is the sole legacy that the mother of a poverty-stricken family has to pass on to her daughters.

Artists for Peace and Justice

Artists for Peace and Justice is a non-profit organization founded in 2009 by Paul Haggis that encourages peace and social justice and addresses issues of poverty and enfranchisement in communities around the world.

Australian Youth Ambassadors for Development

· Pierre Johannessen swapping a comfortable desk job in Canberra to raise funds for rebuilding homes destroyed by cyclones in poverty-stricken Bangladesh.

Benteng Chinese

Nowadays many descendants of this group still live in poverty and has assimilated into the native Sundanese and Betawi cultures.

Child Poverty Act 2010

The Child Poverty Act 2010 is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom ‘to set targets relating to the eradication of child poverty, and to make other provision about child poverty’.

Church Urban Fund

1987 The Church Urban Fund launched by the Church of England as a response to ‘Faith in the City’ with the aim of supporting local projects tackling poverty in England’s poorest communities.

Colored Music Settlement School

Growing concern in Victorian England concerning poverty gave rise to a movement whereby those connected to universities settled students in slum areas to live and work alongside local people.

Divya Dhar

She organised OXFAM’s Biggest Coffee Break at the University of Auckland to promote Fair Trade, where she was also behind the STAND UP: UN Millennium Campaign which broke a Guinness World Records as millions around the world stood together to show support for eradicating extreme poverty.

Ecoagriculture

The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), eight ambitious targets which range from halving extreme poverty to halting the spread of HIV/AIDS and providing universal primary education, were put forth by the United Nations in 2000, to be achieved by 2015.

Eric Sheppard

He is identified with a group of radical economic geographers including Trevor J. Barnes and Jamie Peck, who are critical of the tendency of the modern capitalist economy to create great differences in wealth and poverty, and to create environmental problems and injustices.

Everton, Liverpool

The book "Her Benny" by Silas Hocking was mainly set in Everton and dealt with child poverty in the early 1900s.

Food riot

Oxfam added that a one percent increase in the price of food could lead to 16 million more falling below the poverty line.

Guy Clutton-Brock

With the eloquent support of Trevor Huddleston, Fenner Brockway, Michael Scott, Mary Benson and many others, Guy, his wife Molly (1912–2013), Didymus Mutasa, George Nyandoro and Michael and Eileen Haddon founded Cold Comfort Farm in Southern Rhodesia which became a widely acclaimed pattern for racial freedom and regeneration in the poverty-stricken countries of Africa.

International Year of Sanitation

Further development of these goals was discussed in 2002 at the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg, with the inclusion of access to sanitation as fundamental to achieving all goals surrounding bringing an end to poverty.

Isabel Sawhill

Her expertise lies in the areas of children, education, the federal budget, poverty and inequality, social welfare policy, and teen pregnancy.

J.M.K.E.

Meanwhile Estonia had regained its independence and J.M.K.E. couldn't continue with their anti-Soviet songs (what was the point?), so they found their new "enemy" in the invading "burger-culture", increasing poverty, and other early-capitalistic distresses.

John Cournos

London is portrayed as plagued by poverty, with black market cigarettes and broken lifts, and the narrator wanders round the Strand exclaiming at the filth of the streets, the idlers and the jealous envy displayed towards his new boots.

John Henry Whitley

The report surprised many by concurring with the criticisms of Mahatma Gandhi and others that poverty was the cause of India's social and industrial problems.

Kariandusi School Trust

The advancement of education amongst children and young people primarily but not exclusively in Kariandusi, Kenya, in particular but not by way of limitation by the provision of schools and school facilities and education materials and the relief of poverty by the provision of assistance towards school fees.

Kim Hyon-hui

Kim was originally trained as an actress, and starred in North Korea's first Technicolor film, playing a girl whose family fled to North Korea to escape poverty in South Korea, as North Koreans are taught that South Koreans live in extreme poverty.

Land Without Bread

The film focuses on the Las Hurdes region of Spain, the mountainous area around the town La Alberca, and the intense poverty of its occupants.

Little Syria, Manhattan

The overwhelming majority of the residents were Arabic-speaking Christians, Melkite and Maronite immigrants from present-day Syria and Lebanon who settled in the area in the late 19th century, escaping religious persecution and poverty in their homelands – which were then under control of the Ottoman Empire – and answering the call of American missionaries to escape their difficulties by traveling to New York City.

Mang Pandoy

Jaime Aristotle Alip,CEO and founder of Center for Agriculture and Rural Development Mutually Reinforcing Institutions (CARD MRI) which one 2008's Ramon Magsaysay award for public service, took note of the icon's death at a forum after receiving the award, noting the need for long term solutions to poverty in the Philippines rather than the dole-out approach that Mang Pandoy's story typified.

Marie-Claire Heureuse Félicité

She moved in with her granddaughter, and lived in poverty until her death in 1858 in Gonaïves.

Michael Kremer

In addition to his work at Innovations for Poverty Action, Kremer is a member of Giving What We Can, an international society for the promotion of poverty relief.

Mixed-income housing

While HOPE VI is the most well known federally funded mixed income effort, the following describes the theory of how mixed income housing works as poverty alleviation, regardless of funding and/or management structure.

Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch

Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch is a 1901 novel by Alice Hegan Rice, telling of a southern family's humorously coping with poverty.

Muro-Ami

It is a look at the poverty in the Visayas , primarily seen through the eyes of the coral fishers (Muro-Ami).

N.P Manicham Errthandaar

Manicham Errthandaar is also a follower of Periyar E. V. Ramasamy he joined periyar and Led nationwide campaigns against Brahmanism, untouchability (of Dalits), ignorance and poverty.

Payne Fisher

Fisher died in poverty in a coffee-house in the Old Bailey 2 April 1693, and was buried 6 April in a yard belonging to the church of St. Sepulchre's.

Plague, Poverty and Prayer: A Horrid History with Terry Deary

Plague, Poverty and Prayer is a Horrible Histories exhibition at the York Archaeological Trust's Barley Hall in York, England.

Project Zambia

It was a response by a school in Belfast to the cry of the poverty-stricken people of the compounds of Lusaka, Zambia.

Rafferty and the Gold Dust Twins

Idiotic driving instructor and former United States Marine Corps Gunnery Sergeant Rafferty (Alan Arkin) lives in poverty near Hollywood, California.

Recurring Saturday Night Live characters and sketches introduced 1980–1981

For example, in one episode he tells his viewers that their hopes and dreams are pointless because its impossible to find a job in the current economy and another episode contains a Neighborhood of Make-Believe segment in which a puppet Ronald Reagan (who Robinson consistently blames for his lack of a job and dire financial situation) tells all the neighborhood's hand puppets that he can't do anything to help them out of poverty in a very dismissing manner.

Régine Zylberberg

It was here, she told writer-director Michael Feeney Callan, who documented her home life in his television series, My Riviera, through deprivation and poverty, she developed a lifelong obsession with shoes: "We were poor, we had nothing, so shoes became a symbol of freedom."

Souper Bowl of Caring

The Souper Bowl of Caring utilizes Super Bowl weekend in America to mobilize young people to fight hunger and poverty in their local communities.

Southeast Bank Limited

Southeast Bank Foundation operates under a double bottom line agenda where Bank’s sustained growth objectives and social responsibility go hand in hand as it strives towards a poverty free, prosperous Bangladesh.

Stephen Shames

From 1984 to 1989, with support from the Children's Defense Fund and the Alicia Patterson Foundation, Shames traveled across America photographing the lives of the one out of five children in the United States who live below the poverty line.

Superfantozzi

It so happens that Fantozzi falls into poverty and the help of Robin Hood is not enough to satisfy him.

The House of the Scorpion

As evidenced by conditions in one of the major cities, San Luis, parts of Aztlán are very affluent, while others, such as Durango, the region that El Patrón and Celia hail from, languish in poverty.

Thomas Abate

Thomas Joseph Abate III (born August 20, 1978, in Lawrence, Massachusetts), also known as Poverty, is a hip-hop artist and actor from the New England area.

Tivoli Gardens, Kingston

Desmond McKenzie, born here into poverty in 1952; his father abandoned the family, and he was raised by his mother and stepfather, both important influences.

Trick or Treatment

A review by Harriet A. Hall on Quackwatch stated that some negative reviews of Trick or Treatment demonstrated "an appalling poverty of thought"; articulating that since the reasoning behind the author's conclusions is solid, critics instead deny the methods of science, misrepresent the book's contents and use ad hominem attacks against the authors.

Universal Periodic Review of New Zealand 2009

There was concern regarding the systemic gender pay gap; the alarmingly high child poverty rates; and the proposed amendments to the Terrorism Suppression Act 2002, which may result in unwarranted intrusion into the rights to freedom of association and expression.


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