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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"working-poor"”.
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The Working Poor: Negotiating Life
… salient part of the negotiation process that the working poor use to bring balance and control to their lives. This work challenges those who explore the contexts of people in poverty to recognize leisure as a significant life domain. It also challenges leisure researchers to recognize the …
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The Working Poor : Labour Strategies of Welfare Recipients in Helsinki, 1890–1970
… strategies of individuals in the receipt of poor relief or social assistance allowances in Helsinki between the early 1890s and the late 1960s. The study focuses on three fields of work: street trade, home industries, and general labour, all of which were ridden with informality, irregularity …
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Sweeping Exposures: Lead Poisonings and Black Working Poor Populations in the United States
… the realities that the impoverished urban black poor populations face in America today. The goal of my thesis is to illustrate how poverty is reproduced within impoverished neighborhoods through the idea and mechanism of <em>lead exposure</em>, by recognizing how specific exposure to the element …
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Going Mobile in Rural America: The Community Effect Rural Trailer Parks on Child and Youth Development
… answers whether, for children and youth of working-poor rural families, a rural trailer park produces a community effect that supports social mobility as does a small-town, or narrows life chances, as does an urban ghetto. A controlled-comparison design focuses on the major poor population …
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"Now Imagine You're One of Them": Using Serious Games to Induce Identification with Out-Groups
… game that places users in the role of the working poor. <em>Spent</em> was used to test the potential of serious or prosocial games to increase players’ identification with a group of people who are often on the fringes of social acceptance. Specifically, this research (a) developed a new …
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A Transport Justice Evaluation of Employer-Based Transit Subsidies
… may be inaccessible to the vast majority of the working poor. My main purpose with this study is to increase our understanding of employer-based transit subsidies from a transport justice perspective. I apply the theory of transport justice developed by Karel Martens to evaluate whether the …
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Floating Bath Houses: Public Health and Recreation for the Working Class in Nineteenth-century New Orleans
One seemingly lost aspect of working-class life in antebellum New Orleans stems from the effort of entrepreneurs to provide bathing and swimming facilities for the city's working poor. In exchange for a relatively inexpensive fee per use, working-class New Orleanians served as the customer base for …
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Adolescent Mothers' Relationships With Their Mothers: Communication, Support and Shared Caregiving
… were the most highly regarded. Members of the working poor expressed frustration with rigid eligibility criteria and denial of services, especially for financial and material assistance. In response to caregiving, grandmother involvement ranged from minimal physical caregiving to a level of …
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Are Nutrition and Food Security Concerns a Priority of Certified Nursing Assistants in Work and Family Environments?
… is a concern for many of the uninsured working poor. The purpose of this study was to assess the overall perceived concerns, barriers, and solutions of CNAs in both their work and family environments, identify where nutrition and food security fits into the priorities of CNAs, and …
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The impact of COVID-19 on poverty in South Africa
… and an additional 1.5 million people were food poor in 2020. The increase in poverty would have been substantially worse without the additional COVID-19 grant top-ups. The 2021 poverty estimates report a dramatic poverty recovery by October 2021, with estimated poverty levels lower than they …
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Social infrastructure
… and rising transient populations (homeless, working poor and chronically unemployed) surrounding transportation infrastructure call for a new approach to contemporary urbanism. The thesis Social Infrastructure investigates an elevated 3/4 mile stretch of highway 1-93 in South Boston - an …
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From Street Life to Community Life
… to twenty-five and all of them had grown up in working poor neighborhoods with a considerable amount of street life. The interviews were semi-structured with the questions progressing from basic background information such as “What neighborhood are you from?”; “How would you describe your …
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Georgia's Health Safety Net: A Model of Excellence: The Good Samaritan Health Center
… full-time healthcare for Atlanta’s indigent, working poor, uninsured, and homeless population. For the MPA Professional Exercise, I have spent over 300 hours working in the development and fundraising department of this organization. During my time at the organization, I have gained invaluable …
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Everyday Challenges of Building Community and Empowerment: An Ethnographic Study of Immigrant Mexican Parents Advocating for School Reform
… of undocumented Mexican immigrant parents working to make schools responsive and accountable to Latino American children and families in a small Midwestern city. The study is based on a four-year long participant-observation project in schools and other community settings where Latino …
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Invaluable and outsourced: experiences of private company cleaners working in the public hospital sector in Cape Town
… outsourced support staff and members of the working poor means that their work-life experiences take a particular shape. In an attempt to better understand the work experiences of these staff members, I conducted qualitative interviews with 8 female private company cleaners from four …
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Suburbs in Black and White: Race, Jobs & Poverty in Twentieth-Century Long Island
… between the rising black middle class and black working poor, and distinctly ‘black’ suburbs emerged with problems familiar to postwar inner cities. While urban racial inequality is often framed in terms of housing segregation and the city/suburb divide, census and labor market data reveal that …
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Consuming Poverty: The Unexpected Politics of Food Aid in an Era of Austerity
… asks what this expansion of food aid means for poor people living in New York City. Much of the scholarly literature on welfare policy in the U.S argues that social programs have become more stingy and punitive, particularly since the passage of welfare reform in 1996. On the surface, this does …
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Work, poverty and welfare reform: welfare-to-work programmes for lone parents in depressed local labour markets
… shows that lone parents are moving into are poorly paid, insecure and precarious employment, often leaving them in poveliy and struggling to balance their paid and unpaid work. The dissertation concludes by suggesting that an alternative approach to welfare reform is needed that addresses the …
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Less-skilled workers & the high-technology economy : a regional jobs strategy for Lawrence, MA
… Lawrence job training system in serving the working poor is provided. The last chapter outlines the rationale for public intervention and draws together information about the employment needs and practices of regional living-wage employers and evidence about gaps in the local job training …
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Assessing Potential Industry Growth for Economic Development in Oakland, CA
… of the labor force can be identified as the “working poor.” That is, they have jobs that do not pay enough to cover basic costs of living such as food and shelter. Approximately 62% of Oakland’s population was in the labor force in the 2000 U.S. Census. Nearly 82% of neighboring Emeryville was …
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