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Annotated Bibliography
Anderson, M. (2008). Cities Inside Out: Race, Poverty, and Exclusion at the Urban Fringe.
UCLA Law Review, 55(5), 1095-1160. Retrieved from http://0web.ebscohost.com.lib.utep.edu/ehost/detail?vid=3&hid=12&sid=0fbf51c8-1e3d-4cce-86c97ef984f53cb0%40sessionmgr15&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZSZzY29wZT1zaXRl#db=a9h&AN=33423892
Discusses rural poverty and whether or not country governments are capable of taking
charge of counties economies. This article provides a baseline for neighborhoods which
are on rural poverty. Another point this article explores is the evaluation of local
government and how they deal with community problems.
This article is going to help me place some blame on the government and how they thel
with poverty. They will also have their role in the community poverty, and the things
they are not doing to fix the problems.
Baruah, B. (2009). Monitoring Progress Towards Gender-Equitable Poverty Alleviation: the
Tools of the Trade. Progress In Development Studies, 9(3), 171-186. Retrieved from
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This article discusses the relationship between gender and poverty. It weaves in the factor
of gender and how it contributes to poverty, not in all cases of course but in many. It also
serves as a background information for it offers why poverty came to be analyzes from a
gender perspective.
Bhattacharya, A. (2010). Children and adolescents from poverty and reading
development: a research review. Volume 26. Issue (2),pg. 115-139.
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The article demonstrates the relationship between poverty and reading achievement in
America's schools. This article discusses the importance’s of how to help the limited
reading resources of students from economically impoverished homes. The articles
describes how school and home environments are important to allow and encourage a
child to be able to attend school and obtain the knowledge they need to succeed. The
article shows how household environments depending on the situation and hold back a
child from being able to go to school.
Bradbury, K., & Katz, J. (2008). U.S. Family Income Mobility and Inequality, 1994 to 2004.
Research Review, (10), 26-29. Retrieved from http://0web.ebscohost.com.lib.utep.edu/ehost/detail?vid=17&hid=12&sid=0fbf51c8-1e3d-4cce-86c97ef984f53cb0%40sessionmgr15&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZSZzY29wZT1zaXRl#db=a9h&AN=36981065
This article contains information on the interactive graphics module US family’s income
mobility and inequality. Information includes distribution of income across US classes,
the average income of families within each income classes and how families moved
across income classes.
Briggs Jr., V. M., & Rungeling, B. (1980). A Poverty Solution for the Rural South?. Growth &
Change, 11(4), 31. Retrieved from http://0web.ebscohost.com.lib.utep.edu/ehost/detail?vid=26&hid=12&sid=0fbf51c8-1e3d-4cce-86c97ef984f53cb0%40sessionmgr15&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZSZzY29wZT1zaXRl#db=a9h&AN=4547601
This article discusses the differences between the southern and northern United States
economy, most of the southern states as the article explains is mainly the “Rural South”.
It comments on the regions and nations in terms of stages of development as well. It
finally offers a solution for poverty in the Southern Unites States.
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Danziger, S. (1982). Measuring Poverty and Cutting the Federal Budget. Social Work, 27(4),
369-372. Retrieved from http://0-web.ebscohost.com.lib.utep.edu/ehost/detail?vid=7&hid=12&sid=0fbf51c8-1e3d-4cce86c9-7ef984f53cb0%40sessionmgr15&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZSZzY29wZT1zaXRl#db=a9h&AN=5272663
This article discusses federal budget in the United States. It discusses the U.S. Bureau of
the Census, as well as whether or not poverty was a problem in 1979. The percentage of
people affected by poverty in 1979 is also discussed by the author as well as the specific
type of people which was most affected.
This article will help me compare information from the current situation to what it was in
1979. It will help me determine what type of people have been affected nowadays the
most, compared to 1979 which were African American females.
Left Business Observer. (2000) Income and Poverty. LBO Overview. Retrieved from
http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Stats_incpov.html
This article discusses Census bureau information released since 1997 showing median
household income, race and sex as factors of poverty, and poverty statistics and charts. It
specifically discusses each of these topics in detail.
This information will serve as background information as well as actual hard facts from
the Census bureau; it provides household incomes dividing poor, middle and rich
households since 1966.
Levernier, W., Partridge, M. D., & Rickman, D. S. (2000). The Causes of Regional Variations in
U.S. Poverty: A Cross-Country Analysis*. Journal of Regional Science, 40(3), 473.
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The author analyses causes of regional variations in American poverty; it has data from
different counties, exploring both metropolitan and non-metropolitan areas of poverty. It
analyses different economic factors such as economic growth, industry restructuring and
labor market skills.
The author will provide statistics and data from different counties which will allow me to
compare and contrast different places from the United States, it will also provide the
information to maybe connect the dots with economic factors and what role they play in
poverty.
Misturelli, F., & Heffernan, C. (2008). What is poverty? A diachronic exploration of the
discourse on poverty from the 1970s to the 2000s. European Journal Of Development
Research, 20(4), 666-684. doi:10.1080/09578810802464888.
This piece defines what poverty is, it defines and explains who would qualify into being
part of the lower class. It discusses poverty in the United States from the 1970s to the
2000s. It discusses the United States in a 30 year period. The approach of this article
against poverty is attack it from root causes.
This article serves as background information.
Plotnick, R. D. (2009). Measuring Poverty and Assessing the Role of Income Transfers in
Contemporary Antipoverty Policy: Comments on Besharov and Call. Policy Studies
Journal, 37(4), 633-644. Retrieved from
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This paper discusses examined poverty in Western Europe and in the United States of
America, and different approaches to reduce poverty. The author focuses on working
families of the U.S. and policies that would reduce unwedded and single parenthood as
well as increasing earnings. The author discredits the idea that absolute poverty is a
problem in American and these policies aimed for such are not needed, on the other
hands these policies should be focusing on relative poverty. One of the approaches for
fixing or improving poverty are reducing poverty is by improving human capital reducing
nonmarital births, and selectively expanding income transfers, Which the author explains
in a separate section of the article.
This article will help me provide different approaches on how to fix poverty. Also offers
different ways to reduce unneeded policies and focus that money on issues worth
investing on. The author of this article offers very different approaches and strategies.
This is information is very specific and well researched, it has reliable sources.
Poverty. (n.d.). In American Heritage Dictionary online. Retrieved from
http://www.ahdictionary.com/word/search.html?q=poverty&submit.x=11&submit.y=29
Offers definition of poverty.
Tsujita, E., Yamashita, Y., Takeishi, K., Matsuyama, A., Tsutsui, S., Matsuda, H., & ... Maehara,
Y. (2012). Poor Prognostic Factors after Repeat Hepatectomy for Recurrent
Hepatocellular Carcinoma in the Modern Era. American Surgeon, 78(4), 419-425.
This article is a prognosis of what type of person can be qualified as poor. The author
discusses five steps which determine whether or not you are poor, these include gender
and sex for example.
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Wamba, N. G. (2010). Poverty and literacy: an introduction. Reading & Writing
Quarterly. Volume 26. Issue(2), pg.109-114.
The article discusses the importance of literacy in education for those who come from
low income families as well as those who are in poverty. The article explores the mutual
correlations between poverty, academic and the dedication of the low-income and in
poverty families for the success of their children. This article emphasizes how reading
and writing skills are considered as foundation to be able to obtain knowledge in the
curriculum. Schools and home share responsibility to help children in poverty develop
the lifelong skills.