Sitting at the top are those that have been unemployed for 15 weeks averaging about 8.5 million unemployed. Below them are those that have been unemployed 27 weeks and over averaging about 6.3 million unemployed. Why are there more unemployed at 15 weeks than 27 weeks? This may be the fact that people are finding jobs before they hit the 27 week mark. However, we may see a change in this if the economy stays as it is because all the people in that 15 week unemployment range are on their way to the 27 week unemployment range if a job cannot be found.
FARM students score lower than the overall average in both reading and math in 8th and 4th grade. This is probably due to the fact that families in lower income have a lower vocabulary, less education, and less parental support due to the fact that both parents are probably working as many hours as possible. Research proves that students who are living in poverty prior to entering school their oral language is more limited then those raised in a higher social economic status. African American students are disproportionately represented in the FARMS population in our area, mainly because they are half our population and in turn a high percentage of our FARM students. This could partially explain the low performance of African American students when compared to Caucasians.
Approximately 62 percent are still obtaining their education, and only 22 percent live below the national poverty line. Higher minimum wages does not address the primary reason that people live below the poverty line. Low wages are not the main problem; the problem is that most people living below the poverty line do not work at all. According to the United States Census Bureau. (n.d.), 67 percent of people are living below the poverty line did not work, and only 25 percent worked part time.
Myth #5: Most of the poor are older Americans. About 10 percent of people 65 years and older are poor, but 35 percent of the poor are children under 18. Between 2000 and 2008, the incomes of people ages 25-54-especially men-decreased about 11 percent but increased by 8 percent for men ages 65-74. Myth #6: The poor get special advantages. The poor pay more for goods and services than do wealthier people.
Poverty could be simply defined as being economically poor but many researchers like to refer to it as the state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions. In 2004 the census reported that 24.7 percent of blacks are in poverty, and that 8.6 percent of whites are in poverty (http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/poverty/poverty04/pov04hi.html). The poverty of the black community has seemed to decrease. The white community increased in poverty rate. Although people
According to Iceland, “The poorest 20% of the global population has not benefited much from general improvements. Of the world’s population living in developing and transition economies, 2.8 billion, or almost half, live on less than $2 a day.” There has been an extreme measure of poverty throughout the world that has lead to material and income deprivation across several regions. Sadly among the wealth nation in the world, the United States has a greater proportion of people who are poor. The United States having the highest GNP per capita in the world, at $26,400, has higher levels of both absolute and relative poverty than other rich countries in Northern and Western Europe. This reflects inequality and an uneven distribution (both factors that attribute to poverty) of wealth in
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
This discouraging figure, along with the prohibitively high cost of a higher education has led to a second wave of slaves in the twenty-first century. These wage slaves work in industries such as customer service, construction, and retail. According to a 2014 study from the UC Davis Center for Poverty Research, 23% of poor Americans are employed, with 4% of full time workers beneath the poverty line, and 16% of part time workers beneath it. Because of this, these 10.6 million people receive Welfare, or some other form of assisted living. According to the Institute for Economic Policy, roughly
According to the Pew's Economic Policy group and the Pew Center, on the States shows that after release, former male inmates work nine fewer weeks annually and takes home 40 percent less in annual earnings, making $23,500 instead of $39,100. That amounts to an expected earnings loss of nearly $179,000 through age 48 for men who have been incarcerated (Lasky, 2010). If society helps former inmates to find job or to finish high school maybe they can get ahead and avoid going to jail again. Excessive pretrial
The unemployment rate in Mexico is more than 40% although some have jobs, but are paid an average wage of $3.49 per hour and 18% live on just less than 60p per day. In 2000, unemployment rates in Mexico were at 2.2, however, in 2009, they rose by 34.43%. The GDP per person in Mexico is $9,741.79 which is below the average salary in the U.S. This attracts many people to the U.S who believe they can get much better jobs and live the American dream. 47% of the population lives under the poverty line which makes many people try and move to U.S.A to have better prospects.