Only 36 percent of males in high-poverty Native American communities have full-time, year-round employment.” (Rodgers, 2013) The overall percentage of American Indians living below the federal poverty line is 28.2% (2008, American Indians Census Facts). The disparity for American Indians living below poverty on the reservations is even greater, reaching 38% to 63% in our service area (2006, National Center for Education Statistics, and other sources). (NAA, 2013)
Population and Socioeconomic Indicators According to the data provided by the US Census Bureau in 2010, the age group which comprises the largest percentage of residents is in the Duval County are residents between 25 and 44 years old. This group makes up 27.7 % of the total population. The percentage of families below the poverty line for the county is 14.2% compared to 13.8% of total Florida population. The population over the age of 25 with a high school diploma in the county is 87.2% compared to 85.3% of
This dropped from just below 6 million when Hitler came to power to 250,000 in 1938 and had disappeared by 1939. Public work schemes created jobs – building roads, schools, houses etc. The newly employed enjoyed wages 10 times the income they received when unemployed For those that remembered the depths of the depression with 6 million unemployed, they
2012 People In Kansas live 2.8 Millions people (2008). Nearly 360‘000 live in the biggest city Wichita and about 120‘000 live in the capital Topeka. The unimployment rate in Kansas is 6.9%, which is not that bad for the USA. Consequently Kansas is in the best quarter of the US. The worst rates have California, Rhode Island, Nevada and Puerto Rico.
The new national dropout rates states that 40% of Black and Hispanic kids fail to graduate high school. Georgia’s average graduation rate was 65.4 percent. In 2007-2008, Georgia had 20,135 dropouts and the dropout rate was higher among males than females. Low parental involvement is a major concern and the fact that we have over 70% of our students being 18 years of age or older. In addition, students being able to drop classes which in turn prolong graduation.
Such as the fact that only thirty-six percent of Post Moderns have experienced unemployment within the last year compared to the Disaffected who seventy-one percent have been unemployed in the last year and the Hard-Pressed Democrats that sixty-three percent of their group has been unemployed within the last year. Once again the Post-Moderns were unaffected when it comes to issues surrounding economic hardships, while Hard-Pressed Democrats, and Disaffecteds have over fifty percent of their group continuing to be affected by the recession, the Post Moderns have under twenty percent affected. One thing these three groups have in common is the fact that a large portion of their economic worry is their current “job situation”. However when it comes to Social and Domestic Policies, these political groups differ. Whenever it comes to Same-Sex marriages Post Moderns are in favor by over eighty percent, while Hard-Pressed Democrats, and Dissafecteds are in favor by less than forty percent, most likely this is because of the age difference between the groups and the fact that the Post Modern’s are such a young group of individuals.
Poverty, Coal, and Appalachia Within Appalachia, coal-producing counties are among the most economically distressed counties. The top coal-producing counties have some of the highest poverty rates in the region Of the top eight coal-producing counties in eastern Kentucky, all but one (Pike County) have a higher poverty rate than Appalachian Kentucky as a whole (US Census 2000). So while mining employment is extremely important as a source of income for individuals in coal-producing counties, the benefits of these jobs do not translate into prosperity for the region. Couple that with the fact that Appalachia has twice as many people living in poverty than the rest of the US and it paints a bleak economic picture (US Census 2000). In
Due to the city’s social composition, the storm most heavily impacted the poor and African Americans, who were less likely to have connected to the workforce and were educationally disadvantaged. CRS estimates that one-fifth of those displaced by the storm were poor, and 30% had incomes that were one and a half times below poverty line. African Americans are estimated to
Another 72,000 South Carolinians slipped below the poverty line in 2009 as the Great Recession took its toll, the U.S. Census Bureau estimated Tuesday (D. Slade, 2010). The actual number might be as high as 100,000 or as low as 31,000, given the margins of error in the Census estimates, but in any case there are more people struggling to get by (2010). On the state level, the Census Bureau estimated that in South Carolina the officially poor accounted for 17 of every 100 residents last year, with higher percentages in rural counties and lower ones in the Berkeley-Charleston-Dorchester area
Current Event: Legislation In February, the gas prices were as bad as they could get because of the record breaking gas prices for February. This month was the worst month possible for civilians to get gas because the gas prices only declined four times this month. The average price for gas in the United States is at a solid $3.78 per gallon making it 50 cents more then it was at the beginning of the year and we are only two months into 2013. Over the past two weeks, gas prices have jumped 20 cents! But from numerous sources, specialists are saying that gas prices should start to decline sometime in the near future.