The Hispanic population in the district is a slight bit higher at five percent. The Caucasian population makes up 48% of the schools while the African American population makes up a near 45% of schools. There is almost a fifty/fifty split when it comes to the Caucasian and African American population not only in the schools, but also in the county. Looking on Somerset County’s’ Wikepidia.org site it shows that 20.1 % of the population of Somerset County is below the poverty line. This is much lower then the students they send to our schools because the percentage of FARM students in elementary are 61%, middle 60%, and high school 48 %( Somerset 2009).
The median would be about forty three thousand a year. E. The first pairing of variables to be reviewed is the relationship between Household Size and Income. A scatterplot was created in order to look at the correlation between the two variables. From reviewing the scatterplot one is able to determine that there is not much consistency for example, those who make an average of thirty eight thousand dollars a year can have anywhere from two, to four to seven household members. This goes the same for those in the fifty five thousand a year bracket as well those individuals can
A large number (33 percent) of the poor live in inner cities, the suburbs, small towns, and rural communities. In 2008, one third of the nation's poor lived in suburbs. Myth #4: Most of the poor are single mothers. Of all families living in poverty,51 percent are single mothers and their children, but 40 percent of married-couple families and 9 percent of father-headed households are poor. Myth #5: Most of the poor are older Americans.
Population Economic Status According to the 2010 census, Cook County is the second largest county in the United States. It has a population of 5,194,675, which represents about 40 percent of all residents in the state of Illinois. Within this county, there are over 130
The current | |welfare programs spend about $1 trillion per year and are lifting about $40 million Americans out of poverty. Here we find that a majority of | |the income gains go to households already above the poverty line including many already middle class and even upper middle class families.
Henry Ford’s life, inventions, and charities all contributed greatly to the United States. Ford’s innovation can be traced back to his early life. According to www.hfmgv.org , accessed October 27 2012, Henry Ford’s parents, William and Mary Ford, left Ireland during the potato famine and settled in the Detroit area in the 1840’s. Ford was born Jul 30, 1863, in what is now Dearborn, Michigan. Henry was the first of six children.
economy. Two common measures of the size of a firm are its number of employees and its annual payroll. By either measure, the vast majority of firms in the United States are small, and these firms account for a substantial share of private sector employment. Figure 1a shows that, measured by employment, 89 percent of firms had fewer than 20 employees in 2006, and these same firms accounted for 18 percent of private sector employment. Similarly, those with fewer than 50 employees accounted for 96 percent of all firms and 28 percent of private sector employment.
From 2007 to 2010, the national unemployment rate for American Indians increased 7.7% to 15.2%. The largest employers for American Indians are Tribal and Federal governments on the reservations. Many are forced to look for work outside of the reservation and receive lower wages that leave them failing to meet their basic needs of food, shelter, and clothing. “A major cause of poverty in Native American communities is the persistent lack of opportunity. 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).
(n.d.), 67 percent of people are living below the poverty line did not work, and only 25 percent worked part time. That means that only 9 percent living below the poverty line work full
Rector found that in 2004 low-skilled households received about $32,138 in benefits per household on average. Rector then found that these same households paid an average of $9,689 in taxes, resulting in the average low-skill household to collect $22,449 more in benefits than paid in taxes. Taking that $22,449, and multiplying it by the 17.7 million low-skill households, Rector concluded that the total deficit for such households was around $397 billion in 2004. “Over the next ten years the total cost of low-skill households to the taxpayer ... is likely to be at least $3.9 trillion” (York). That’s quite a bill to pay