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Poverty is the struggle of trying to survive and poverty is the pride that you wear when struggling. A closed mouth does not get fed never be afraid to ask for help.

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Alleviating poverty is one of the core missions of the social work profession, and one of the major difficulties that often goes along with poverty is hunger. Families who lose financial stability often have a hard time getting enough to eat, and the process for getting food stamps or other government assistance can be arduous. Food banks play a huge part in making sure that families affected by poverty, especially those with children, can get what they need. Any social worker with clients affected by poverty may need to help their clients get connected with local food banks and organizations that provide nutritional and monetary assistance. Additionally, many social workers are employed at, or collaborate with, groups that advocate on behalf of those in poverty to help them get food, shelter, and equitable legal treatment.

This is not a ranked list, but an acknowledgment of organizations that are doing good work, and a resource for social workers, or social work students, who want to make alleviating poverty and hunger a central mission in their social work careers.

Food Banks & Anti-Hunger Groups

These groups provide the much needed service of gathering food, often donated from community members and businesses, and distributing it among families in need. Many of these organizations also work to raise awareness of poverty and hunger in their communities and to inspire others to help raise people out of poverty.

Policy & The Law

Many organizations, from local and national poverty law centers to political activists, are working on diminishing poverty levels by trying to change the law and public policy to be more accommodating and offer more assistance to families and individuals in poverty.

Anti-Poverty Advocacy

Anti-Poverty advocates disseminate information and work with public and private organizations to decrease poverty systematically by increasing access to technology, housing, legal representation, food, and many other resources that are much more difficult to obtain for families affected by poverty.

Relevant Resources

From inexpensive housing providers to groups helping children in poverty get better educations, there are people working on alleviating both the symptoms and the causes of poverty from every angle, and social workers are a crucial part of these efforts.

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Great Organizations Confronting Poverty & Hunger

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Alleviating poverty is one of the core missions of the social work profession, and one of the major difficulties that often goes along with poverty is hunger. Families who lose financial stability often have a hard time getting enough to eat, and the process for getting food stamps or other government assistance can be arduous.

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I find myself constantly under pressure juggling work and school. I don't want to let my son and family down, so I push harder here are some tips to remain positive.

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How to Remain in College With a Positive Attitude

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Everyone has experienced the mixed feelings associated with being a college student. From 17-65, there are people who can't hang in there to achieve a degree because of numerous reasons. If you are deciding to go to college, the first goal...

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Embracing each others culture is how we can learn to understand each other, and overcome diversity.I love to hearing different languages spoken when I'm at a grocery store or anywhere.

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A trophy wife is more than just a woman with a beautiful physique. Men are more attracted to a woman's success than of her looks.

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7 Things You MUST Know About The 'New' Type Of Trophy Wife

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The term trophy wife has taken a backseat, as the alpha woman of the present is a goal-oriented go-getter.

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White lies are another form of deception. The author tries to shed light on this matter and how it can be problematic to some.

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Lying requires a lot of effort.

When you tell the truth, you simply remember what happens.

When you lie you have to consider what you're trying to hide, figure out a believable version of the opposite, give a convincing performance to sell that lie, and then remember it for the rest of eternity so you never get caught.

Even if you're pretending to love your grandmother's disgusting fruitcake, that's a lot of pressure. Furthermore, it builds and builds every time you lie. (And you all do, even if you don't think so.) According to deception expert Pamela Meyer,

The average person lies three times within the first minute of meeting a stranger and between 10 and 200 times per day. We handle this constant lying well considering how remarkably often it occurs, but that's especially easy to do when we have an easy time ignoring the consequences.

Lies, just like many other things, cause stress and anxiety. Our nervous systems are connected to our immune systems so it makes sense that our brain and our emotions can send out messages that affect our health. To put it simply, your body responds to the way you think.

When we think happy thoughts:

Our bodies produce endorphins; hormones that make us feel good.

Those chemicals also contribute to a stronger, healthier immune system.

When we are worried, anxious or generally stressed out:

Our bodies produce different kinds of hormones such ascortisol, and norepinephrine.

Cortisol increases blood sugar and suppresses the immune system.

Norepinephrine kick starts the "flight or fight" response meaning our heart rate accelerates and our blood pressure goes up.

If you need more proof, consider thepolygraph machine (what's come to be known as the "lie detector"). They don't actually detect lies, specifically, but rather the signs of stress that accompany telling them. While stress isn't a definitive indicator of lying, it's often a good clue. Author David Ropeik points to a study that found additional evidence:

Joe Navarro, former FBI agent and author of What Every BODY Is Saying, says it best:

The truth is that there is not one single behavior indicative of deception. [Instead], there are behaviors that are indicative of when a person is having distress, or anxiety, or psychological discomfort.

Lying can cause this type of distress, but so could many other things. For example, Navarro interviewed one woman who showed all of the nonverbal cues one might associate with deception, but in reality she was nervous because her parking meter had run out and was merely afraid of getting a ticket. Even lie detectors are susceptible to this weakness, so you need more evidence to truly detect a lie.
Now that we have seen the harmful stressing effects that lying has on your body and mind; lets take a look at some of the benefits to taking an honest approach.
8 Benefits of telling the truth:

1. The repercussions of telling the truth (even when it hurts) is far less taxing on the mind and body than telling a lie.

2. You will save your sanity and physical health

3. You may be able to end an offense quickly by saying you're sorry (if you did something wrong) and offer a way to make up for your mistake or error instead of lying about it and therefore putting yourself in a position where you have to consistently substantiate the charade of a lie.

4. You can win the respect and support of others by simply telling the truth about an embarrassing situation and taking responsibility for your actions.

5. You will gain the reputation for being an honest person. This goes a long way in a world where the average person tells between 10 and 200 lies per day.

6. People will eventually become more truthful to you and in return you will worry less about whether others are telling you lies.
7. By being a truthful person, you'll become more persuasive. People will trust you more. It's ironic, but truthful people get more of what they want in life and if you get what you want you have less to stress about.
8. By being truthful, you'll sleep better, eat healthier and consequently, you'll look better.

Stay Healthy, Stay Honest

Remember, whether you call them fibs, white lies, or exaggerations, if it isn't the whole truth..it's a lie.

We don't often realize that something as simple as the words we chose, can make us ill, but it's true. Lies will eventually eat you alive; the truth will support and nourish your mind, body and spirit.

So don't jeopardize your mental and physical well-being by letting fear rule your actions and choice of words. Lies will enslave you...and as the saying goes, "The truth will set you free ".

*Sources:

Lifehacker.com - What Lying Actually Does To Your Brain And Body.

Cogic Family Services - How does lying affect your health?

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The Scary Truth About Lying & The Harmful Side Effects On Your Mind & Body - Efficient Life Skills

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Lying requires a lot of effort. When you tell the truth, you simply remember what happens. When you lie you have to consider what you're trying to hide, figure out a believable version of the opposite, give a convincing performance to sell that lie, and then remember it for the rest of eternity so you never get caught.

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Things that seem complicated can be seemingly simple, and things that look simple can be complex. In this article Kluger introduces us to this concept by analyzing social and technological systems.

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Jeffrey Kluger visits Google's Cambridge, MA office to discuss his book "SIMPLEXITY: Why Simple Things Become Complex (and how Complex Things Can Be Made Simple)." This event took place on June 4, 2008, as part of the Authors@Google series.

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Public shaming is another form of bullying and could damage someone's life

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Izabel Laxamana, a 13-year-old girl in Tacoma, Wash., died after she jumped off a highway overpass on Friday, May 29. Days earlier, the girl's father had reportedly punished her by cutting off her hair and uploading a video of it to YouTube. Now there's a debate over whether her father's public shaming caused her death.

Were this father's actions a contributing factor in his daughter taking her own life? Some say definitely yes, others say the nature of suicide is too complex to know for sure.

I know one thing for certain: public shaming videos like this are an extreme form of punishment and do more harm than good.

RELATED: Yelling at Our Kids Ruins Their Relationships

Some of us are familiar with the old school "not in my house" way of raising children, because that's how our parents disciplined us. Now this authoritative form of discipline has intersected the Internet age, and some parents think online ridicule is one way to teach a child a lesson.

But this is misguided.

Parents who didn't grow up saturated with the internet and social media don't understand the effects of uploading a public shaming video. They say you should consider everything you do online as written in ink. Why? Take the video of Laxamana as an example. The video in question was removed, but copies already exist elsewhere on the internet.

The effects of humiliating your child online go beyond the lesson you're trying to impart. It can lead to your child being mocked by his or her peers. The video can spread beyond what you imagined, and your child might become an Internet joke passed from stranger to stranger. The potential for long-lasting effects make an online public shaming different from a mere public shaming. If you decide to discipline your child in public-assuming no one records it-the punishment lasts only as long as the event. Online public shaming endures and can haunt your child long after the lesson has been learned.

There's more to say about the case of Izabel Laxamana.

Unlike other online shaming videos, she wasn't merely forced to hold a sign admitting her wrongdoings, as in other disciplinary videos parents have posted. In Isabel's case, her father chopped off her long hair, which is seen strewn on the floor beneath her. The act itself is brutal, even if weren't being filmed.

Historically, the act of cutting another person's hair off has been reserved for imposing the worst shame. Thus, Izabel contended not only with the effects of other people seeing her father shame her online but having to wear the shame on her everywhere she went. That in itself is an extreme punishment, only made worse by being shared online for all to see.

RELATED: 20 Discipline Mistakes Even Good Moms Make

Some parents are pushing back. Recently, one dad's video went viral for standing up against social media shamings. Rather than watch the video that hurt this young girl, let's watch this man being a great parent:

Ultimately, parents must remember that discipling a child is not about our desire to impose a punishment, but about helping our child learn something. If a parent's punishment is so severe that it causes irreparable damage, then that parent has failed. You can teach a lesson without destroying your child. Izabel deserved better from the people tasked with raising and protecting her.
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Public Shaming Is More Brutal Than We Think

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Izabel Laxamana, a 13-year-old girl in Tacoma, Wash., died after she jumped off a highway overpass on Friday, May 29. Days earlier, the girl's father had reportedly punished her by cutting off her hair and uploading a video of it to YouTube. Now there's a debate over whether her father's public shaming caused her death.

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If you do the crime, you do the time no matter the age a child, teenager, or adult knows the difference between wrong and right.

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People always want to look a certain way in the public's eye but no matter how much a person tries to downplay or lifosuction out these flaws, there is always someone willing to exploit it.

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Like Wiens, poor grammar is one of my biggest pet peeves and because of it, I find myself unfollowing people for reasons shared in the link below.

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12 Hilarious Grammar Mistakes on Facebook & SMS - funny grammar mistakes, funny grammar errors - Oddee

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'Cause everybody has a grammar nazi friend among their contacts.