Archive for the Poverty Category
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2012: The Year of the Reckoning
The economic, political and social outlook in 2012, for countries all around the world, is beginning to look like the coming of the apocalypse, the end of an era that is no longer relevant. But, there is another way to look at the year 2012--it is a
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Why Troubled Teens Fight
In earlier blog entries I have talked about the high incidents of crime in poverty neighborhoods. What most people don’t understand is that poverty doesn’t always allow you to be good. Poverty is evil, but most people are not. I was invo
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Troubled Teen Escapes Poverty: Achieves Financial Independence
That's me, Doug Wallace, top center in the above photo. My siblings and I lived with our parents in the Kirkpatrick Homes housing projects in Granite City, IL in 1955. There were six of us children back then. Years later, our mot
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Troubled Teens: How Can We Save Them?
When thinking about the culture of poverty, start with the proposition that poverty is evil– people are not. By way of example, we’re all born equally innocent, a happy baby in search of the good. There is no rule that says a child bor
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Overcome the Odds
The photo to the left was taken during my first week as the new office manager of Frost Arnett Company, in Atlanta, GA. This image is a photo of the office which I managed. I was 22 years old when the photo was taken. I had just bee
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Guidance for Problem Children
It didn’t dawn on me just how much my business and personal growth would benefit from the lessons learned from my years in poverty until about age 23. Dealing with problem children often means having to understand what is bothering the
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Problem Children and Troubled Teens Have to Plan Early for Success
Growing up in poverty, I was involved in a constant struggle for respect and dignity. I didn’t understand it at the time, but looking back on it now, it’s clear that my appearance, language and behavior, made people from the middle class so
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Myths and Inconvenient Truths About Children in Poverty
There are many unknown factors when it comes to poverty, especially if you come from a background of the middle and upper classes. Though we can't predict the future, we can dispel some myths, and confirm some inconvenient truths, that collective
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Solutions for Parents with Troubled Children
Looking back I can see clearly how often throughout my troubled boyhood I was touched by words of encouragement. And random acts of kindness also also helped to shape me into the man I am today. And random acts of violence and ignorance
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Troubled Teens and Poor Children: Common Behaviors
While it is true that America doesn’t have a caste system, it does possess economic layers labeled as poverty class, middle class, and wealthy class. These classes collectively define the economic classes, as most people understand them,
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