Since the begging of the American deficit the American upper class has been constantly gaining ground and earning more and more dollars per capita every year ("Occupy Wall Street"). While on the other hand the middle class has been slowly losing ground on the upper class and the income per capita is slowly decreasing. If the trend continues there will only be an upper powerhouse class and a lower poor class. This angers a large amount of the population. Not only is it just money figures it’s the idea that these middle class students are going to college for several years on a promise that if they get that degree they will be able to live comfortably, and due to the current state of economy this is just not true.
With increasing demand for these facilities, organizations are seeing 25 to 60 percent increases (November 27, 1986). For example, the Holy Trinity Ministry to the Poor projected a 144 percent increase this year (November 27, 1986). The economy of Texas with an unemployment rate of 9.5 percent (1.5 percent higher the past year) along with the increasing number of transient out-of-towners has helped increase the problem with homeless being on the streets (November 27, 1986). In addition, the shortage of more than 45,000 units of low-income housing,
Although it seems that we are making great strides in education with increased admissions for college students in diverse social, income and ethnic groups, that because these students are not getting degrees the gap between rich and poor continues to increase, and these achievements in education are not as valid as they seem. The article says that universities which have higher enrollment rates of students from low-income families also have lower graduation rates. However, at institutions with the highest graduation rates such as the University of Colorado and Stanford, a large majority of the students come from high-income homes, a statistic that has continued to rise the past 20 years. At elite universities, the student-body populations are becoming more and more diverse as far as cultural and religious background, but these students all share an upper-middle class upbringing. According to the Department of Education “only 41 percent of low-income students entering a four-year college managed to
Vulnerable Populations - Part II A vulnerable population is a group that has a high incident of health care disparities and difficulties accessing the health care system because of cultural, socioeconomic, language barriers, and educational background. The Hispanic population is the largest and fastest growing minority group in the United States. This group makes up 15% of the United States population and it is predicted that this percentage will double by 2050 (Kaiser Foundation, 2010). In the Hispanic population, the Hispanic or Latino woman, ages 18 to 35 years of age with little to no income, and a high school diploma or less, is apt to possessing a high incidence of health care disparities. Hispanic women are at risk for not receiving the necessary medical care due to the lack of health insurance coverage and knowledge of services available to address their health care needs.
Over the past two decades, Argentina has faced a lot of changes in the economic and social sector. In the 1980’s, when Argentina was going through major structural adjustments and going back to the populist regime, income inequality among households was affected by growing unemployment due to past crises. This was reflected on the loss of jobs of a big part of low-income groups and in the increase in differential wages between the rich and the poor. In the late 1980’s, another economical crisis hit the country and it drove it to the hyperinflation period, where the biggest jump to inequality occurred. The 90’s reform brought a restructuring labor system, which only increased even more the unemployment rate and the gap between the high-skilled population and the majority: the unskilled.
At Any Given Time, anyone can become vulnerable, the composition of the population has changed demographically and the elderly population has increased in recent years because of the development of the science and technology, but with this increment of the elderly population the vulnerability increases as well, due to some factors that this vulnerable population is exposed to, such as increase of the needs, physical and mental limitations, and lack of financial resources. Chronic illnesses increase vulnerability in elderly patients because patients become more dependent of assistance from family and require more medical care and health services to manage their physical limitations and disease. These most common diseases are: Alzheimer disease, heart disease, respiratory diseases, stroke, poor vision and hearing
At this time people wanted to spend their money instead of save it for hard times. Society’s hourly pay rate nearly double and tripled during this era. War factories transitioned from making war materials to making civilian supplies, which lead to the boost in our economy at the time. Today, effects of the Baby Boom have many factors that come into play that affect our economy. According to National Academy of Social Insurance “social security faces a financial challenge from the impending retirement of the largest generation in American history, the 76 million persons born in the “baby boom” years, from 1946 through 1964.
Josh On LALS 1 Huascar Garcia 3-18-13 At the Heart of Migration I still remember the devastating fact Professor Hector told us in the lecture, saying most Latinos came to the United States after 1970, and the number grew to 38 million people. That is an enormous number, composing the 15.7% of total population in United States. There is a plenty of reasons why all the Latinos came over, but it is an important fact that now they are a crucial segment of the U.S. population. However, a lot of immigrants, including illegal workers, still have difficulty in United States. Rafael Vega, an Illinois resident featured in a Chicago Tribune article, is a hard worker who works in separate factories.
English 043 Professor Doreen Kiefer 12/15/13 “The Growing Need of Raising Minimum Wage” Have you ever wonder how many desperate unemployed American citizens there are in the United States seeking for jobs? Well there’re more than eleven million unemployed citizens desperately trying to make a living in this terrible recession. Not only is it affecting our economy but our businesses, and families as well. Even before the recession, our economy was rapidly shifting, with fewer and fewer middle class jobs and opportunities, with fewer and fewer middle class families, which has led to a low growing, low-wage workforce. As of the end of 2011, the United States needed to create roughly 10 million jobs to return to the pre-recession unemployment
Why? Because low income family’s have a hard enough time supporting themselves, therefore parents are much less likely to donate to the school, volunteer for school meetings, or fund raisers, and also attracts lower performing teachers. There have been many tests and revisions in schools with firing teachers, to having new teaching models to try and improve the educational achievement of poor students, but to no