This dire statistic earns Dyers County the title of the eight highest unemployment rate for counties in the state of Tennessee. Due to the overall downturn in the nation’s economic status the effects of the recession can easily be seen in Dyer County—numerous empty buildings that once housed small businesses and a number of home foreclosure sale signs in the yards of now empty residences. The annual median income for Dyer County residents is $32,788, and the median income for a family is $39,848. “Males had a median income of $31,182 versus $21,605 for females. The per capita income for the county was $16,451.
Even worse 24% of the nation’s poor in Mexico lives in extreme poverty, on less than 1 dollar per day. Approximately 104 million Mexicans fit into these categories. It is no wonder that so many Mexicans try to enter the United States illegally. Many of them know that they will make more in one hour in the United States than they would make in a day in Mexico. There is also the impact on our economy.
The worst rates have California, Rhode Island, Nevada and Puerto Rico. In these states are between 10 and 14 percent of the population unemployed. But in comparison with switzerland, its like double: in switzerland we have about 3% unemployed people now. In Comparison to the whole US, Kansas is under the average of 8.16 percent. The mentality of the locals is, as we say, typical american.
From October 2000 to June 2002, the industry lost more than 240,000 jobs; plants in border-states accounted for about 76% of these losses. Along with these job losses, Mexican maquilas are being challenged by the rising global competition. The advantages of operating plants in Mexico, such as low wages and tax incentives, are now offered by a great number of developing countries. At the same time, location has become less important as innovations in transportation
Democrats at the national level were battling Republicans' attempts to assure that black citizens could exercise their rights, including the right to vote. So, in order to promote settlement, bring an "uplifting" element to Wyoming politics, and coincidentally offset black men's votes William Bright passed the woman suffrage’s bill. In 1862, Congress passed the Homestead Act and many farmers took the opportunity to farm in the west. Farming in the west proved to be difficult, machines like the McCormick reaper were revolutionizing farming, making it not only possible, but virtually mandatory for farmers to plow and plant and harvest more acres. Drought years became more and more common where crops withered in the fields and cattle died of thirst.
That means the other 88 percent of beneficiaries “include a wide cross section of families with children, couples, and others” (Furman, 2012, p. 1). The value of the minimum wage adjusted to inflation is also about 20 percent less than it was when Ronald Reagan first became president in 1981 (Furman, 2012). Currently, 19 million people are working for less than $10.10 an hour, while nearly 50 million are living below the poverty line (Furman, 2012). The minimum wage isn’t properly adjusted to inflation, therefore putting much more of a financial burden on minimum-wage working citizens. With rent averaging roughly $1,230 a month, you wonder how people could possibly live working for the current federal minimum wage (Glink,
The adjustments for 2010, 3rd quarter earnings will reduce to $98 million, down from $101.5 million, and 4th quarter will be reduced to $43 million from $114.2 million (Savitz, 2011). AMSC also stated that cash and equivalents were at $240 million quarter end, down from $260.5 million on quarter earlier (Savitz, 2011). Sinovel has no intentions of paying AMSC. This is AMSC biggest client because this client contributes to 80% of its revenues. Not good news for investors or anyone with interest in
The nomadic hunter-gatherers, Penan are one of the last such groups in south East Asia. Out of the 10,000 Penan living in the Malaysian state of Sarawak, Borneo, only 20 nomadic people are left. Its been estimated that at least 70% of Sarawak’s primary forest has been licensed for logging and in some places there have been two or three logging passes in the last twenty five years. The Penan tribe is not protected because there is thought to be too much wealth in the forest such as wood and mining and food and the government is poor so they need all the wealth they can get and they don’t see much point in looking after one small tribe when it is better to look after the whole country first. The Penan tribe is a threatened culture due to deforestisation and globalization because their culture is being ‘brought’ by logging companies trading them new technology for land and local knowledge.
Furthermore Haiti is one of the poorest countries in the world with GDP pe capita of US$670 and a population of 10 million in 2010. Hence it would cost a fortune to displace this amount of people.
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.