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3 pages in length. Living below the poverty line anywhere around the world is an existence fraught with constant struggle just to afford the basic necessities of survival; however, to endure sub-poverty life in the United States is a far cry from trying to do the same in third world countries like Ethiopia. One glaring difference between the two is America's governmental programs such as WIC (Women, Infants and Children), welfare and economic housing supplementation compared with the bureaucratic red tape that often prevents Ethiopians from receiving airlifted emergency rations let alone the benefits of governmental programs. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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survival; however, to endure sub-poverty life in the United States is a far cry from trying to do the same in third world countries like Ethiopia. One glaring difference
between the two is Americas governmental programs such as WIC (Women, Infants and Children), welfare and economic housing supplementation compared with the bureaucratic red tape that often prevents Ethiopians from
receiving airlifted emergency rations let alone the benefits of governmental programs. Statistical information for Philadelphia County in 1999, for example, illustrates a preponderance
of lower income/higher poverty rates than is attributed to the overall state of Pennsylvania. Findings indicate the median household income was ten thousand dollars lower ($30,746) than state earnings
($40,106); per capita money income was more than four thousand dollars less ($16,509) than the state ($20,880); and nearly a quarter of the population (22.9%) were living below the poverty
line when compared to Pennsylvania as a whole (11%). Staggeringly, nearly twenty percent of all wage earners made less than $10,000 in 1999, reflecting statistics quite alarming where childrens
welfare is concerned, inasmuch as more than twenty-five percent of Philadelphia countys entire population of 1,517,550 were eighteen years and under (U.S. Census Bureau, 2005). The 2000 census reflects an
unemployed rate of 6.1% out of the overall civilian workforce of 656,539 people. Occupations included management/professional/related (31.5%); service (19.7%); sales and office (29.6%); farming/fishing/forestry (0.1%); construction/extraction/maintenance (6.5%); and production/transportation/material
moving (12.5%). Unpaid family workers represented 1,345 - or 0.2% - of the overall total; of all families below the poverty level (65,259), 51,146 of them supported children under
the age of eighteen. By comparison, single parent female families below the poverty level (42,100) were further subcategorized into those with children under eighteen years old (36,558). Finally,
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