Poverty has been a major issue that has plagued many of the world’s economies for many decades. Poverty refers to a state where individuals lack enough resources to cater for their everyday needs (Nolan, 2007). Poverty can come about as a result of many factors. Some of the major factors...

The most important element of social stratification, as I have taken it from this term, is how it seems to be an inevitable and complex system in virtually any culture. It is a framework, in a sense, and one based upon a wide variety of factors. Gender, economic status, class,...

People are poor because they are lazy and refuse to work: What is more often the case is that people are unable to access work because of many reasons including: a long-term disability, lack of other resources like transportation or appropriate clothing, lack of responsible child care and limited education...

Despite moving towards improvement, the problem of low life expectancy has not changed a lot, and according to the World Bank, life expectancy has grown by only a couple of years over a ten-year period (Data.worldbank.org., 2017). Especially weak was and still is the growth in the countries of Central...

In the 19th century, the U.S. was faced with a spate of immigrants (Ehrenreich, 2014). In fact, immigration patterns in the early 19th century included high levels of immigration from across the world, while legislation by the late 19th century limited immigration from many parts of world and encouraged immigration...