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Project Reports
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Policies of Exclusion, Poverty & Health: Stories from the Front 
Compiled, with Introduction and Reports by Chrystal Ocean
WISE © 2005.
 
Phase 1 – The Issues
We will not give you statistics. We will not say how many of us arestudents, retired, single mothers, living alone or living with a spouse,working or on government assistance. We will say that we have allthose covered. We will not give our ages, since age is irrelevant towho we are.Because we want you to read all our stories, we will provide noreferences to indicate from which stories the quotations were taken.Each story is quoted at least once.This report details the issues that feature dominantly in our stories.Our second report, Phase 2 – The Recommendations, contains oursuggestions for preventing and remedying those issues.Our report has three major divisions: i)
Predictors
are conditionswhich have tended to forecast our future poverty; we haveidentified two broad long-term and one short-term or immediatepredictors. ii)
Primary effects
are caused by the immediate or
primary conditions
of poverty; iii)
Secondary conditions
arecausing
secondary effects
. The latter are sometimes increases in themagnitude of the primary effects or are new effects. The diagramon the following page illustrates the relations among predictors,primary and secondary conditions and primary and secondaryeffects.
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