1.3 million African American households are composed of a grandparent and a grandchild younger than 18 (United States Census Bureau, 2010). Thirty two thousand five hundred and four dollar is the reported annual medium income (Unites States Department of Labor, 2010). African Americans comprise 40 percent of the homeless population and nearly half of all prisoners in the United States are African American. African American children comprise 45 percent of the public foster care population (United Stated Census Bureau, 2010) and African Americans also lead the nation in unemployment at some 16 percent (United States Department of Labor, 2010). Twenty percent of African Americans report having no health insurance coverage and 17 percent report owing no form of transportation (United States Department of Labor, 2010).
In fact, on some reservations, the unemployment rate is around 90%. (Beal, C.L) A major cause of poverty in Native American communities is the persistent lack of opportunity. The Economic Research Service reports that Native American communities have fewer full-time employed individuals than any other high-poverty community. Only 36 percent of males in high-poverty Native American communities
By the 1990s lone-parent mothers had a 2 in 3 chance of being poor. Women's greater life expectancy, their lower wages, lack of private pensions and disrupted employment patterns also help to explain why the majority of the elderly poor are women. At the other end of the scale, families in the top 20% of income brackets are most likely to contain a married couple (at least one of whom generally has a university degree), live in a major city, and own a home and a car. Women in these families, families that are the most likely to conform to the stereotypical but distorted image of the family, tend to be either professionals and managers with high-paying jobs, or they stay out of the labour force. Today the majority of married women are working or are actively looking
In Athens if you were actively involved in politics you were high in class. Another similarity between these classical civilizations was that women did not have as great of rights as men (documents 2 and 3). Men were thought to be the workers that do the jobs and participate in politics. Women were expected to stay at home and raise a family. On document 3 it says that “women make up 50% of ever category except for bureaucrats and appointed officials, who were male only.
 LECTURE NOTES  35% of single mother households are living in poverty.  WOC, once convicted, cannot obtain future welfare benefits, including food stamps or housing assistance.  Poor women are increasingly criminalized due to welfare policies.  Women (all) earn 77 cents for every $1 men make. Black women earn 63 cents and Latinas 57 cents (also quoted as 72 and 60 cents).
taxpayers about $193 per household per year (Stein 2011). My family along with many others are having a hard enough time paying for their own bills and what not let alone someone else's. As long as foreigners are encouraged by our actions to ignore our immigration laws, we will forever be hard pressed to defend our borders. And, not only will America’s most vulnerable workers (minimum-wage) suffer from unfair competition against illegal aliens for jobs, but that competition will become even harsher because of the newly legalized workers competing for jobs from employers who precisely hire only legal workers (Martin 2011). Many argue that they are an economic benefit.
Gender role differences aren’t the only reason African American men are being surpassed by their female counterparts in earnings, but because of incarceration rates. With African American men having the highest rates of incarceration they are not only unable to compete with women as wage earners, they are also hindering themselves a great deal when it comes to sustaining healthy relationships (Hattery-Smith, p. 49). The intent of this paper is to examine how economy, gender role ideologies, and incarceration have influenced family formation; which will forever change the visage of the African American
Unfortunately, this is not a valid argument since only 4 percent of the minimum wage workers are single parents. Most minimum wage earners are under 25 years of age and are not the sole breadwinner for the family. They tend to come from middle-class families, are still in school and only work part-time. Statistics shows that 79 percent of these people only work part time. Approximately 62 percent are still obtaining their education, and only 22 percent live below the national poverty line.
This is usually due to the high amounts of discrimination that African Americans are to face on a daily basis versus any other race. On to the economics of this video, it pointed out that economic policy is health policy. Because the government reduced the taxes for the wealthy, it is making it impossible for the poor to obtain any wealth. The gap between poor and rich in America is surprisingly wide, and impossible to ascend. The video also talked about how the average American has gone nowhere, while the rich are getting richer, and the middle class is getting squeezed, and the poor are getting poorer.
Discrimination against the American White Male Gayle Whitfield Axia College of the University of Phoenix Discrimination against the American White Male The oppression of women and minorities springs to mind when we think of the word, “discrimination.” After all, women struggled for years for equality and minorities fought long and hard to overcome the disadvantages that have been associated with race. Due to social engineering, discrimination against the white male is a subject which has been tagged by our society as taboo and has largely been ignored, but there is a fact which remains. Companies not in compliance with Executive Order 11246 must hire women and minorities to reach percentage “goals” which