Some family-based immigrants may be highly educated or skilled, but the vast majority of admissions are made without regard for those criteria. The immigrant population reflects the system's lack of emphasis on skill. Nearly 31 percent of foreign-born residents over the age of 25 are without a high school diploma, compared to just 10 percent of native-born citizens. Immigrants trail natives in rates of college attendance, associate's degrees, and bachelor's degrees, but earn advanced degrees at a slightly higher rate (10.9 percent, compared to 10.4 percent for natives). Illegal immigrants are the least-educated group, with nearly 75 percent having at most a high school education.
What is the working poor? There are 10.4 million low income working families in the United States. 47 million people, include 23.5 million children live in low-income families (BLS, 2010). The working poor represent the working population with a disposable income that does not cover basic living necessities, such as food, housing, and utilities. According to the U.S. Census Bureau (2011), more than 146 million Americans live at or below the poverty level.
While 58% of families below the UK poverty line contained at least one working parent, benefits available still do not bring them above the 60% median household income. [4,7] Along with income inequality other inequalities such as: ethnicity, housing and the neighborhood in which the child lives; all contribute to poverty. People from ethnic minority groups in Britain are significantly more likely to be living in poverty. Around a third of all children are living in poverty; but disadvantage is deeper among children in ethnic minority groups as a whole. Homelessness; poor accommodation such as overcrowding, poor state of repair blights childhood.
It is not only in America that the young do not exercise their democratic rights. In 2010 just 44% of people aged 18 to 24 voted in Britain’s general election, compared with 65% of people of all ages. In not a single European country do the young turn out more than older people. Historically, youth turnout has never been particularly high anywhere, but over the past few decades things have got worse. One explanation favoured by older people is that the young are simply lazy.
Low paying jobs keep the working poor impoverished. Someone working a full-time job, fifty two weeks a year at minimum wage would only earn $13, 624 a year, which is below the poverty line for two or more people (Lauer & Lauer, 2011). The kind of work that very poor people “access through their informal social networks is often low quality – poorly paid, insecure, offering little opportunity for progression” (Afridi, 2011, p.9). Two social issues that affect those living below the poverty line include social exclusion and the high probability of becoming victims of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS). Social exclusion is a term which incorporates the condition of social isolation and
The same concept applies towards the student who scores a 32 on the ACT compared with a student who scored a 22. It's no wonder why American students tend to have lower scores compared to other countries, such as Japan. Currently, the United States has the shortest school year with an average of 180 days while Japan, who is also in the lead has a whopping average of 243 per year. Now, some people may say that the 63 day difference is not much, but lets assume that both Japan and the United States have a regular seven hour school day, that's 441 more hours of education that Japan students receive than the students from the states. Or lets put it this way, there are 365 days in a year-considering it a regular year- that's 260 weekdays, give or take minus the 243 days of school that Japan students attend, that's only 17 days of break that they receive; compared to the US that has 80 non school days.
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At that time I still was working for minimum wage and it seemed like I could barely afford it. I had basically no bills and I worked around twenty hours a week and it seemed like I couldn't save any money, or really help out my parents with any of the bills. This was, and still is, a problem for me and I am sure it is not only an issue I am dealing with. I always wondered how my coworkers, who were adults, and who had real things to pay for, pulled it off. This makes me wonder, is the minimum wage really high enough?
The GDP per capita in Sierra Leone is $700, which ranks 228th in the world, also as of 2008. Poverty engulfs the hefty majority of those that live in Sierra Leone. So much, that 70% of the entire population is living below the poverty line, and has been for decades (see figure A-1). There are many socio-economic development issues that are successful in depicting the well being of a nation and its citizens. However, all of these issues can be traced back to lack of economic stability.
California State University Professor, Norman Herr states that “the average American watches more than 4 hours of TV each day” (Herr). With this there is very little time for family communication. American parents have reached the point where television is the educational tool, the babysitter and the most prized possession when lost. Unfortunately, majority of television has little to no educational value. Give a study done by University of Arizona Professor, Dale Kunkel "Only one of every eight E/I shows (13%) is rated as highly educational.