Browsing by Subject "Poverty"
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(2012-10-19)Research focusing on the academic and social experiences of academically gifted, poor, African American male college students has been limited. Recent findings on college persistence stress the role of institutions of ...
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(2009-05-15)This dissertation uses data from the 2006 American Community Survey and Decennial Census 2000 to analyze trends and determinants of poverty among Mexican Americans and Mexican immigrants in the Southwestern United States. ...
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This paper discusses food insecurity as a chronic social challenge facing communities and families in the United States. According to the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Economic Research Service, food ...
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(2009-05-15)This qualitative autoethnographic study was the process by which I, a young Latina, was able to evocatively and therapeutically write about the incestual abuse and poverty experienced from age six until the age of 17. It ...
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(2012-02-14)This dissertation focuses on the nature of governance of the urban poor and examines the 'behind the scene' politics as well as the 'side effects' of a recent good governance project designed to serve six million poor ...
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(2018-07-19)The first essay estimates the effect of the "Program of College Admission for Poor Counties" on high school education using data of 86 counties of Gansu province in northwestern China. Applying a difference-in-differences ...
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(2016-02-22)This dissertation examined the home environments of graduate students raised in poverty. Present literature has demonstrated that there is a growing achievement gap experienced by students raised in poverty. However, ...