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83Financial Wisdom From Proverbs
Money is a sore topic for a lot of people. It seems as though we either LOVE or HATE money. Either way, these attitudes will get us into trouble regarding money. If we love it, we’ll end up doing...
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82Poverty Causes and Effects
Causes of Poverty Imagine searching through heaping piles of refuse at landfills, looking for anything that could seem partly edible, to satisfy an unending hunger. Many people around the world...
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82The Difference Between the Minimum Wage and a Living Wage
Minimum wages are set both nationally and statewide. The minimum wage gives employers a guideline as to the legal minimum amount paid to employees. In 1968 the minimum wage served to keep 86% of workers and...
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82The Poor Get Poorer, And Poorer
A few decades ago, songwriter Gus Kahn penned the phrase, "There's nothing surer, the rich get rich and the poor get poorer" as part of the lyrics of "Ain't We Got Fun." The phrase is now just another cliche, but like most cliches, has considerable basis in fact.
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82Tobacco Road - Poverty and Humor
"Tobacco Road" is the dirt road farmers hauled their harvested tobacco crops along to the market for sale. It means povry and pain. The crops were originally hauled in animal powered wagons during the Plantation Era in the American South. Sometimes, when there were no draft animals left, African slaves themselves pulled the wagons...
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81Ghosts of the Great Depression - 1930s Poverty
Rochelle Frank’s Hub called Survival in the 1930's is an eye opening account of survival that many people born after 1960 probably cannot imagine -- Unless they were born into the poverty of the poorest Appalachian regions, the most destitute part of a rundown inner city, or a third world country. I have only a few stories to contribute.
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81Money-The Root Of All Evil or The Route To All Evil
‘‘Righteous Indignation is rarely more justified, than when it is a response to gross hypocrisy’’ (Julian Baggini) Back in the early days of ‘The Credit Crunch’, some of the smug bankers,...
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81DISCRIMINATION AGAINST THE POOR: STILL ALIVE AND WELL
Valerie Belew, M. Div., ICADC, CADC Jesus specifically addressed abuse and discrimination against the poor, according to the writings of the New Testament, and while many do not believe the writings to be...
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80Money Cannot Buy Happiness. Really?
I must have heard this expression a thousand times since my school days. It’s one of those worldly facts which we keep assimilating, passively, without even questioning their validity and relevance in the...
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80Extermination of the Bushmen
The Bushmen, or San, were forever immortalised in the Jamie Uys movie and it's sequel, the 'God's must be Crazy'. People all over the world fell in love with the little man wearing only a loincloth who...
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