SOSC 3043 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Outsourcing, Public Space, Welfare

• School: York University
• Department: Social Science
• Course: SOSC 3043
• Professor: T B A

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Sosc 3043 week 4 social exclusion and poverty. Give you an understanding of how businesses and the state contribute to poverty and how that leads to social exclusion. Almost half of the worlds population over 3 billion people live on less than . 50 a day. 1 billion children live in poverty (1 in 2 children in the world) 400 million have no access to safe water. 270 million have no access to health services. Poverty: there is no single or universal definition of poverty **on the midterm** in canada, a variety of poverty definitions exist. They include: a subsistence to purchase the bare necessities (michaud, cotton, and bishop, p. 6) Poverty is being sick and not being able to see a doctor. Poverty is not having access to school and not knowing how to read. Poverty is not having a job, is fear for the future, li(cid:448)i(cid:374)g o(cid:374)e da(cid:455) at a ti(cid:373)e(cid:863). (world bank,