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Lorenz Curve Diagram
The first half of the site deals with the lorenz curve and the second half provides a definition of poverty along with information on government transfers and income distribution.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: Bay Verte, 1775
A map of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia near Bay Verte (Green Bay) and the eastern shore of Chignecto showing the campaign of Colonel Monckton in 1775 against the French. "About the last of May, Colonel Monckton sailed from Boston, with...
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Photograph: Thomas Douglas, 5th Earl of Selkirk
Thomas Douglas, Earl of Selkirk (1771-1820) was a Scottish aristocrat, land baron, author, and member of the United Kingdom's House of Lords. Douglas was concerned about the poverty he saw in the Scottish Highlands where property-less...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Patera
A round plate or dish. The paterae of the most common kind were small plates of the common red earthenware, on which an ornamental pattern was drawn, and which were sometimes entirely black. The more valuable paterae were metallic, being...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Henry George
(1839-1897) An economist and social reformer who wrote the book Progress and Poverty.
Digital History
Digital History: The Laboring Poor
The plight of the working poor is not a new one. Read about the problems faced by unskilled workers in the mid-1800s.
Social Security Administration
Social Security Online: Upton Sinclair
The Social Security Administration profiles the political career of author Upton Sinclair and his unsuccessful run as a progressive candidate for governor of California in 1934. He proposed a plan for California similar to what became...
Independence Hall Association
U.s. History: From the Countryside to the City
The growth of cities was rapid in the last half of the 19th century. Read about the good things and bad things that were a result of this urbanization.
PBS
Mpr: Over the Hill to the Poor House
This feature examines the use of poorhouses and poorfarms in Minnesota from the 1850s to the 1950s. It puts Minnesota's use of poorhouses in context with their general use throughout the country. Includes links to some of the original laws.
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Boy With Broken Bicycle in Nairobi's Kibera Slum
Outlines the problems of the urban populations in Subsaharan African countries. Examines why the people move into these communities and why they get stuck there.
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Bbc: Report Reveals Global Slum Crisis
Outlines the problems of the urban populations in Subsaharan African countries. Examines why the people move into these communities and why they get stuck there.
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"Five Cents a Spot": Image of Victorian Boarders, How the Other Half Lives, 1888
Victorian boarders.
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