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discharged up to fourteenth November 2007. Out of this, Rs. 5365.99 Crore have been discharged to the Phase I 200 districts and Rs. 2937.92 Crore have been discharged to the Phase II 131 districts. Amid 2006-07, 2.12 Crore households had requested employment, out of which 2.10 Crore households were given employment. Amid the year 90.51 Crore individual days of employment was given under the project. Midpoints of 45.2 lakh individual days of employment every districts have been created. Out of aggregate

poverty 2.1.1: Definition of poverty Poverty of an individual or household is defined as a state of having an income or consumption expenditure which is below a certain level/standard known as the poverty line (Bigsten ; Abebe, 2003). Townsend (1985) defined poverty as not only a failure to meet minimum nutrition levels but also as a failure to keep with a standard of living prevailing in the society. Thus according to Townsend a household is considered as being poor if and only if its standard of living

questions of: What can be done to reduce poverty in single parent households? Some factors I had to take into account was the wage gap, the reasons for divorce and most importantly lack of a job or at least a full time job with benefits. I strongly believe that by connecting single parents to jobs with higher pay and benefits as well as providing cost efficient caregivers we can reduce the amount of poverty affecting single parent households. Research has shown that the age of the children play a factor

culture. It was established through a series of constant responsibility placed on me by my parents. My eldest brother was always at work, and would not get back till early in the morning. This caused the responsibilities of him to fall to me. In a household of

culture. It was established through a series of constant responsibility placed on me by my parents. My eldest brother was always at work, and would not get back till early in the morning. This caused the responsibilities of him to fall to me. In a household of nine you really had to pull your own weight, plus any excess that could relieve stress off my parents. It was the consistent need to help out with younger siblings that caused a birth of dependence. In other words, every action I made was no longer

Once Darling leaves Zimbabwe, she no longer has a country to call home, similar to the chapter How They Lived, when the refugees can’t go home, but don’t consider America their home either. Darling is in limbo, she cannot claim Zimbabwe as her country anymore but she still refuses to claim America as her country and is even pushed away by the American culture. She no longer fits anywhere. Darling is at a wedding for her Aunt’s ex-boyfriend, Dumi, who has married an obese, white woman. During the

Sydney, has become gradually unattainable (McNamara & Connell 2007). Since the 1980’s the percentage of young people aged 20 - 24 in Australia living in shared arrangements doubled (Burke, Pinkey & Ewing 2002), making apparent that other forms of household were inaccessible. This, I believe, reflects escalated housing prices, interest rates and land value. Furthermore, in 1980 26% of young people aged 20 - 24 in Australia lived alone, and by 2000, only 9.3% were living alone (Burke, Pinkey & Ewing

Patel 1 The More Dysfunctions, The More Escapes The Wingfields and Westons are both inimitable families who carry distinctive traits and characteristics. In the play, The Glass Menagerie, Tennessee Williams portrays a southern family in the 1930 's trying to deal with life 's pressures, and their own fears after their husband and father deserts them. In the play, August: Osage County, Tracy Letts depicts a large eccentric family who come together after the death of the patriarch

“Gender relations are not confined to the domestic arena — although households constitute an important institutional site on which gender relations are played out — but are made, remade and contested in a range of institutional arenas”(Changing Gender Relations In The Household). In parallel to this statement, women and men have always had their own perceive norm within the household. Women are traditionally homemakers and men assume the sole status of breadwinner. However, in modern day society

employment, interference with the educational attainment of children, and interruptions within social networks (Crowley et al. 56). With approximately 26 percent of children living with a single parent today, and an estimated 31 percent of single parent households living under the poverty line (census), the research in this paper will examine the relationship between single motherhood and residential mobility as a measure of housing stability. (Horowitz, Parker, Rohal 7)   Residential mobility can be defined