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Advanced Placement (AP) Human Geography (also known as AP Human Geo, AP Geography, APHG, AP HuGe, APHug, AP Human, HuGS, AP HuGo, or HGAP) is an Advanced Placement social studies course in human geography for high school, usually freshmen students in the US, culminating in an exam administered by the College Board. [1]
Dutton, Paul V. Origins of the French welfare state: The struggle for social reform in France, 1914–1947. (Cambridge UP, 2002). online; Mattera, Paolo. "Changes and turning points in welfare history. A case study: a comparison of France and Italy in the 1940s." Journal of Modern Italian Studies 22.2 (2017): 232–253. Nord, Philip.
Welfare spending, government intervention meant to provide a minimal level of well-being and social support for all citizens; Welfare state, the concept of a government playing a key role in individual economic and social well-being
In the United States, federal assistance, also known as federal aid, federal benefits, or federal funds, is defined as any federal program, project, service, or activity provided by the federal government that directly assists domestic governments, organizations, or individuals in the areas of education, health, public safety, public welfare, and public works, among others.
Number in Poverty and Poverty Rate: 1959 to 2017. The US. In the United States, poverty has both social and political implications. Based on poverty measures used by the Census Bureau (which exclude non-cash factors such as food stamps or medical care or public housing), America had 37 million people in poverty in 2023; this is 11 percent of population. [1]
The AP Statistics program addressed a practical need as well since the number of students enrolling in majors that use statistics has grown. [2] A total of 7,667 students took the exam during the first administration, the highest number of students to take an AP exam in its first year. [5]
The United Kingdom has a long history of welfare, notably including the English Poor laws which date back to 1536. After various reforms to the program, which involved workhouses , it was eventually abolished and replaced with a modern system by laws such as the National Assistance Act 1948 ( 11 & 12 Geo. 6 .
There are two fundamental theorems of welfare economics. The first states that in economic equilibrium , a set of complete markets , with complete information , and in perfect competition , will be Pareto optimal (in the sense that no further exchange would make one person better off without making another worse off).