Imagine You Wanted to Study Child Poverty from a Micro

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Essay

Imagine you wanted to study child poverty from a micro, meso, and macro level. For each of the three levels of analysis, describe what question or questions you might ask to learn more about child poverty and why that level of analysis is appropriate for your question.

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Definitions:

Retained Earnings

Profits that a company has kept or retained rather than distributed to shareholders in the form of dividends.

Debt to Equity Ratio

A measure of a company's financial leverage calculated by dividing its total liabilities by shareholder equity, indicating the proportion of equity and debt used to finance a company's assets.

Dividends

Distributions given to the shareholders of a corporation, typically sourced from the profits of the business.

Pro Forma Net Income

An estimation of net income for a future period, assuming certain projections or events occur.