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1. The ebscohost academic database results identify 287,436 items related to the gun on campus topic. All articles relate to the issue of gun in a campus environment.
2. The search results include articles touching on various topics in black colleges and universities with the one discussing about guns being the first on the search page. The search identifies 76,395 items.
3. I can access the article in full text but in PDF and HTML formats. It is also possible to send the article my UDC email address
4. I can access 652,490 eBooks sources from the ecobschost site.
5. The accessible political science eBooks on the site are 67,082 in number.
6. The number of titles on political science journals on JSTOR is 14
7. The search results on Harkness, Suzan (author) are 66 in number
8. After searching the results brings shows a single item written by this author.

Question 10

The measurement of poverty is carried out by the through a comparison of before tax income – cash – against a threshold which is set thrice the least cost of food diet in the year 1963. This is updated every year to include inflation by the use of Consumer Price Index. It’s then adjusted for family details such as householder’s age, family size and composition. The official poverty measures describe a family as being people who are living together and are related by marriage, birth or adoption. The measurement thresholds are not normally differentiated in accordance to geographical location.  It is the work of U.S Census Bureau to carry out poverty measurement and has thus come up with an info graphic which outlines the manner in which poverty is measured by Census. Threshold on poverty is important for various reasons which include keeping track of poverty levels over a given period of time and performing a comparison of poverty status across groups in different demographics. It is also used as a point from which the federal government determines various assistance programs to be extended to the members of the public.  Estimation of poverty for official use purpose is normally done from Current Population Survey Annual Social and Economic Supplement, and is carried in three months of each year (Februarys, March, and April).It is done with a sample of about 100,000 addresses every year (United States. Bureau of Census, 45).

 The work of the Bureau involves also reports on income and estimation of poverty level from other significant surveys and programs on national household. The reports provide information approximating the number of poor people, the determined rate of poverty and number of people in percentage whose living standards are below the set poverty threshold. The poverty thresholds consist of the original or initial type of poverty measure for the federal government created in 1960s. The thresholds are updated annually by the Bureau so that they offer a measuring standard for either progress or regress in efforts aimed at curbing poverty.  Therefore households whose income is above 100 % of their set threshold is said to be above poverty level, between 100-125 % are nearly poor , at or less than 100 % are in poverty and those with below 50 % are severely poor (United States. Bureau of  Census, 45).  The poverty threshold for a household consisting of two parents and two children as per the year 2015 is $49,114 (Carey, Landvogt & Barraket, 95).

References

United States. Bureau of the Census .Current Population Reports: Consumer income .U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, 2005. Series. Vol. 3. 45-60

 Carey Gemma, Landvogt Kathy , Barraket Jo. Creating and Implementing Public Policy: Cross-sectoral Debates. Routledge Critical Studies in Public Management. Routledge. 2015.94-96