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Search Results Trickle Up Program - Fighting poverty, One Business at a Time.
Category: Society>Organizations>Development
Dedicated to reducing poverty by providing low-income people around the world with the opportunity to create their own microenterprises.
http://www.trickleup.org
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World Bank - Global poverty Monitoring
Category: Society>Issues>poverty>Facts and Statistics
Data and reports regarding world poverty.
http://www.worldbank.org/research/povmonitor/index.htm
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The Rural School and Community Trust: Policy--School Size, poverty, and Achievement
Category: Regional>North America>United States>Texas>Education>Administration
New research shows that Texas' smaller schools reduce the harmful effects of poverty on student achievement and help students from less affluent communities narrow the academic achievement gap(as measured by state sanctioned standardized tests) between them and students from wealthier communities.
http://www.ruraledu.org/docs/sapss/nat_sum.html
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US Census Bureau - poverty
Category: Society>Issues>poverty>Facts and Statistics
Official statistics on poverty in the United States.
http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/poverty.html
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Readings on poverty, Hunger, and Economic Development
Category: Society>Issues>Global>Aid and Development
Fits lots of webpages together to present a coherent picture about the amount of food in the world, the role it plays in a capitalist economy, why people are poor, and what measures can be taken to eliminate poverty and hunger.
http://faculty.plattsburgh.edu/richard.robbins/legacy/hunger_readings.htm
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Power, Violence and poverty
Category: Society>Politics>Personal Pages
Essays on power and its relationship to violence, poverty and social change.
http://www.fragmentsweb.org/fourtx/subpower.html
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Institute for Research on poverty
Category: Society>Issues>poverty>Homelessness
Information about the institute, explanations of poverty measures, research, and links. One of two national poverty research centers designated by the US Department of Health and Human Services.
http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/irp/
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EAPN - European Anti-poverty Network
Category: Society>Government>Multilateral>Regional>European Union>Organisations>Non-profit NGOs and Associations
EAPN is an independent coalition of associations and groups committed to the fight against poverty and social exclusion in the Member States of the European Union.
http://www.eurplace.org/orga/eapn/index.html
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Ontario Coalition Against poverty
Category: Society>Politics>Anarchism>Direct Action
Militant anti-poverty group led by John Clarke. Involved in a campaign of protest and direct action to fight the federal, Ontario and Toronto governments for higher wages and welfare benefits, plus for tenant and immigrant rights.
http://www.ocap.ca/
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Defining poverty
Category: Society>Issues>poverty>Articles
Ohio State University extension fact sheet on poverty and its official definitation, with an emphasis on poverty in Ohio.
http://ohioline.osu.edu/hyg-fact/5000/5700.html
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