Poverty is a widespread problem not only inflicting poor nations, but also nations like the United States of America. In the history of the United States, women and racial minorities had always been persistently struggling with poverty. This paper intends to investigate poverty among Hispanic women between 2005 and 2010 and identify and analyze the relevant contributing factors. Within this per...

This paper presents a series of three studies describing how reading literature promotes empathy and moral outcomes. We add contrasts to this field empirical study: (a) an explanatory interpretative form narrative engagement (Integrative Comprehension) is contrasted with expressive explicative aesthetic (Expressive Enactment); (b) interpretive cognitive perspective-taking (a component Integrati...

The study of poverty and income in equality are the most important subjects of social/ economic research in agriculture sector. The present study focuses on poverty and income inequality among pistachio growers in Kerman province. Absolute poverty line, relative poverty line, poverty gap and intensity were calculated. Also income distribution was investigated using Ginny coefficient, Lorenz cur...

in this study, first we estimated the poverty line of household and poverty indices in rural areas between1999 to 2004. stochastic dominance test is applied to compare the extent of poverty in the beginning year and the end year of third- socio economic development plan of iran. the most important feature of this technique is providing comparative comparison of poverty in two years or different...