The unemployment level in Haiti is also very low. In 2010 it was documented that 40 percent of the population in Haiti was unemployed. 70 percent of Haitians live in terrible working and living conditions. Homes are poorly built, small, and packed. Haitians get paid very minimum, and conditions are basic.
In Canada right now: One in ten children is poor. Canada's child poverty rate of 15 percent is three times as high as the rates of Sweden, Norway or Finland. Every month, 770,000 people in Canada use food banks. Forty percent of those relying on food banks are children. These statistics point to a betrayal of Canada's children.
“In 1900, nine out of 10 minorities were African American. In 1998, Blacks made up less than one-half of all minorities, and their share is declining. Hispanics, with a 1998 population of 30 million, are the second largest minority, accounting for 40 percent of U.S. minorities,” according to the Population Reference Bureau, (PRB, September 1999). “The U.S. Census Bureau projects that Hispanics will outnumber non-Hispanic Blacks by 2005,” (PRB, September 1999). “Asians accounted for 13 percent of minorities in 1998, while American Indians, Eskimos, and Aleuts made up 3
The Great Depression started in October 1929 when the stock market crashed. Farming income fell some 50 percent, and in 1932 approximately one out of every four Americans was unemployed. By 1933 the whole value of stock on the New York Stock Exchange was less than a fifth of what it had been at its peak in 1929, the novel is set in California. This was where most people migrated to during the 1930’s and 40’s, most migrants ended up competing for seasonal jobs picking crops at extremely low wages. George and Lennie are the main characters in the book they are migrant workers, but in chapter 4 Steinbeck focuses on Crooks.
Illegal immigrants are the least-educated group, with nearly 75 percent having at most a high school education. Overall, 55 percent of the foreign-born population has no education past high school, compared to 42 percent of natives. The median immigrant worker has an income of $30,000 per year, trailing native workers by about 18 percent. At $22,500 per year, illegal aliens make even less than their legal counterparts. Though U.S.-born children of legal immigrants are no more likely to be in poverty than those in native households, the children of illegal aliens and foreign-born children of legal immigrants
For example the average life span/life expectancy for an aboriginal man living in Victoria is 59 years and for woman it would be 65, This is a lot less compared to the non-indigenous Victorians as the average man is predicted to live to 76 and a woman is predicted to live till 82. There are many factors that play a role in the low life expectancy of indigenous Australians one of these being the social and cultural values. Indigenous woman are having children at a very young age and there is a lack of available services to support them and their children’s health problems, and disease between the indigenous people is 20 times higher that non-indigenous. It is very hard for problems like this to be fixed because of health services like the aboriginal health service in Fitzroy, it has only four members of staff, one of which works part time, and another who visits once a week and they are treating over 500 children. General preventable health conditions are becoming a cause of death amongst the aborigines for people with literacy issues or people who have a lack of access to transport as they cannot manage there problems well.
The census data for 2006 shows that 36.5 million Americans or about one in eight lived below the federal poverty like of $20,614 in income for a family of four. More than a third of them are children, and 3.4 are 65 and older. While the poverty rate continues to rise, the number of children without health care insurance continues to rise with it. Billiteri, J. Thomas (2007, September 7) Domestic Poverty ( Vol. 17, Issue 31).
Diabetes-related death rates are steadily decreasing In 2007, nearly 7,500 Australians died from diabetes and causes related to diabetes. This is 5.4% of all deaths in that year. Between 1997 and 2007, deaths from diabetes-related causes dropped by 16%, from 39 to 32 deaths per 100,000 population, taking into account differences in age structure over time (Figure 1). Figure 1: Diabetes-related deaths, 1997–2007 Notes 1. Directly age-standardised to the 2001 Australian population.
Research shows that between 40 and 50 percent of wage loss among low skilled Americans is due to the immigration of low skilled workers. Some native workers lose not just wages but their jobs through immigrant competition. An estimated 1,880,000 American workers are displaced from their jobs every year by immigration. (Colorado Alliance for Immigration Reform) 71% of respondents in a 2006 Quinnipiac University Poll believed that enforcement of immigration laws would require additional measures beyond a border fence, with 65% of
In 1990, 50 percent of White women had incomes below 646 per month, African-American women had incomes below 419 per month, and Hispanic women had incomes below 426 per month. With a poverty line for seniors of 437.91 per month) in 1990, it is clear that many women live near or below the poverty line. Therefore, they are at risk for psychological