PPT-What is poverty? "People are living in poverty if their income and resources (material,

This is the Irish Governments definition of poverty in its National Action Plan for Social Inclusion 20072016 What it means is that people are living in poverty if they do not have enough money to do the things that most people in Ireland take for granted Poverty can mean not having the money to buy enough food for your family not being able to afford to heat your home in winter or having to buy secondhand clothes because you cant afford new ones . Xavier . Mancero. Statistics Division, ECLAC. Seminar on poverty measurement. Geneva, 5-6 May 2015. Background. Income provides an incomplete assessment of living standards. . Possible bias characterizing poverty . Reduce the number of people living on less that $1.25 per day by half. Reduce the number of people who live in hunger by half. Guarantee stable employment. What do we want to achieve?. What have we already achieved?. ?. . Graham Whitham. Graham_whitham@hotmail.co.uk. @. GrahamWhitham. For Radical Statistics Conference, 8. th. March 2014, Manchester.. Overview. Relative poverty as a concept. Child poverty targets. Key Trends. I. Welfare Programs are Based on Economic Self-Sufficiency. In the United States, employment is the primary pathway out of poverty for most-non-elderly adults. . Most of the American poor are in households headed by working age adults. . Minimum Household Energy need. Robert Thornton. Research Associate. Vincentian Partnership for Social Justice. Introduction. Research by the VPSJ on behalf of the SVP. How the cost of a Minimum Essential Standard of Living (MESL) is impacted by the energy efficiency of a household’s dwelling. enough already?. Presentation at EAPN Ireland round table: an action plan for adequate minimum income. 7 October 2014. European Parliament Office, Dublin . Dr Katherine Duffy. . 1. Duffy: k.b.duffy@talktalk.net: 7 October 2014. 1. Developed by. : . Jan Maples, Renée Daugherty, and Dave . Shideler. Oklahoma . Cooperative . Extension Service/Oklahoma . State University.  . Prepared with support from: . Rachel . Welborn. and. What is culture?. Culture. - all of the shared products of human groups - - . products people create. Material culture. – physical objects that people create (cars, clothes, books, buildings). Nonmaterial culture . “The federal government declared a war on poverty, and poverty won”. Ronald Reagan, Former President of the United States, . State of the Union Message, 1988.  . “. There was never a war on poverty. . Photo Credit: . Quinn . Dombrowski. , Flickr CC. PERSISTENT POVERTY . Statistics Canada: 1 in 7 Canadians live below the poverty line. UNICEF: 13% children, ranking Canada 24 in a list of 35 developed countries. Practice: HDI Development. Poverty Prediction Questions. Which TWO population groups are most vulnerable to effects of global poverty? . Name 2 challenges facing children living in poverty. Name a medical . Statistics for Action. Matthew Whittaker. Resolution Foundation. February 2015. ……………………………………………………………………………………………... Proportion living in relative poverty has . David K. Jesuit* Vincent A. Mahler . Central Michigan University Loyola University. . Chicago . Paper prepared for delivery at the First Annual LIS/LWS Users Conference, University of Luxembourg, . . loss considered irreversible and irretrievable. Potential effects include:. Increase of on-site erosion, displacement of primary cultural deposits. Increased vulnerability to . looting. Values at Risk.