According to Kozol, one of the main causes of homelessness in the 1980s was the vast reduction in affordable housing. Kozol explains that “gentrification,” the transformation of a low-rent neighborhood to a more prestigious one, raised rents and pushed the poor into homelessness (433). He states, “Half a million units of low-income housing are lost each year to condominium conversion as well as to arson, demolition, or abandonment” and that rent for lower-income individuals increased more than 30 percent since 1980 (433). Additionally, Kozol claims that almost half of low-income “SRO (single-room occupancy) units” were “replaced by luxury apartments and office buildings between 1970 and 1980” (435). In addition to the reduction in low-income housing, Kozol also argues that there was a severe shortage of employment positions that paid a living wage.
One of the effects of shift lag has been found to be decreased alertness. Shift workers often experience a circadian trough where there alert levels plummet. This usually occurs between 12:00am and 4:00am and is due to reduced body temperature and a decrease in cortisol levels. This effect of shift work has been supported by research carried out by Moor Ede. It has been found that the decreased alertness, as a result of shift lag, costs the USA seventy billion dollars per year.
Unemployment hurtled upwards from 1.5 million to 4.3 million in just one year and had risen to 6 million by 1932. Many companies became bankrupt, leading to mass unemployment. Not only this, but with fewer workers meant fewer goods the companies were able to sell. Regardless of the companies being able to produce their goods, they would be unable to sell them due to extreme poverty that bellowed upon the German society. Money was required for food, heating and clothes, amongst other necessities.
Threats to the reef The biggest threat to the reef comes from human activates on land and the quality of the water rapidly declining due to water run off containing substances such as pesticides, toxic chemicals and also heavy oil. Over a period of the last 27 years the reef has rapidly declined and half of the coral has died (1). An ecosystem like the Great Barrier Reef would obviously experiences ups and downs throughout its cycle however the fact that the number of live coral has halved in 27 years means we cannot deny the fact that human activities are to blame, and due to the poor water conditions the coral has been unable to recover like it has the ability to(2). Corals are animals that produce a calcium carbonate exoskeleton layer upon layer giving it stone like features, while it lives on the edges of the skeleton these types of hard corals are considered reef builders as their collection of skeletons are the make up the reef which
Another problem the company is facing is the decline in market share. Market shares have been declining due to the fact that subscriptions are slow decreasing. Our competitors are offering the same products and service in a much lower price than Netflix. The CEO, Reed Hastings and other Netflix executives are currently selling off a lot of their own stock in the company. The company’s stock is now losing value which has to be regained.
Over the years the marshlands that served New Orleans against storm surge have been destroyed by off shore drilling. An average of 34 square miles have dissapeared each year for the past 5 decades. New Orleans was made up of low income touristism imployment August 23, 2005 The National Hurricane Center in Miami,issues it first advisory.Hurricane Katrina is avout 350 miles east of Miami (NG) August 24th, The 11th storm of 2005 has been named “ Katrina” Its closing in on Miami, the winds are blowing at about 40 miles an hour. August 25th, Katrina is becoming stronger with winds at about 75 miles a hour and are exceding.Strom Katrine is now a hurricane. Falling trees kill two people.
But people developed lots of coastal development (dredging, mangrove removal, seawall construction, alteration of freshwater flow) and they had fewer places to live. That caused them to die. Third problem is their low reproductive ability. Like sharks, they breed very slow and produce very few babies. Because of overfishing and habitat loss it will take years to reproduce all that amount of sawfish that were killed.
Then, Countless number of individuals lost their life savings along with the Depression. After 3 years, the value of stock on the New York Stock Exchange was worthless. Also, millions of Americans were out of work at the same time. Banks, individual businesses, and factories were failing everywhere. Even, income of farmers fell about 50 percent (Gene, 2008).
In a case study called “Vulnerable Populations” Dr. Richard Zoraster (2010) mentions “Hurricane Katrina demonstrated many of the risk within the United States. These factors include poverty, home ownership, poor English, ethnic minorities, immigrant status and high density housing”. Social vulnerable populations are at risk during a disaster because of their socio-economic standing. Lack of money and transportation hindered their attempts to evacuate. Furthermore, a large number of residents did not trust the local authorities and refused to evacuate.
The policy of reducing debt made MC leave the company with just $36 million cash which was well under the number of 1990 ($283 million cash ). MC’s stock prices fell more than two-thirds from $33.38 in 1989 to $10.50 in 1990, resulting in a drop of $2 billion in market capitalization; even if in 1991 it went up to $16.50. Another consequence was an important decrease of Times interest earned from 2.6 in 1989 to 1.4 in 1990 and 1.5 in 1991 which triggered a depreciation of bond rating from A3 in 1989 to Baa3 in 1991 quite close to junk bonds. For the future this is a strong signal of the MC financial crisis situation. Most liquidity and solvency indicators show that the group would have not been unable to cover its current obligations/liabilities and was close to bankruptcy.