The poorest 40 percent of the world’s population accounts for 5 percent of global income, and the richest, 20 percent accounts for three-quarters of the world’s income (Shah). Lack of education has caused people to settle for low paying jobs, or in most cases, unemployment. Part of the reason why students lack interest in school is because of the environment. Some students
The median household income in Detroit dropped from $29,526 in 2000 to $26,098 in 2009. It was only a year later that it dropped again to $25,787. In 2010, the mean income fell below the US average by thousands. Every 1 in 3 residents in the city of Detroit is in poverty. Detroit reported more burglaries in 2010 than 2012.
This situation gets worse when one compares poverty levels in cities , where most immigrants first seek refuge . Gertler (2001 ) estimated that around 52 percent of newly arrived immigrants suffer from serious poverty problem compared to only 24 .5 percent of Canadian-born city residents . Is it that immigrants are lazy or work less ? No , because HRSD (2007 ) reports that 80 percent of immigrants living in poverty usually try to earn income compared to only 67 percent of their Canadians cohorts , and that only 11 percent of immigrants receive government Employment Insurance compared to 20 percent of non-immigrant .Different groups of immigrants are affected differently by poverty depending on their home countries . A comparison between Canadian born individuals and immigrants from Least Developed Countries (LDC ) shown in Figure 1 (Kassim Rothman , 2000 , 17 ) gives a clear picture of the sorry lives lived by this group of immigrants
Lake Huron, the hardest-hit of the five lakes, experienced record low levels this past winter. These conditions are troubling to the shipping industry, which spent the last year struggling to move cargo into ports with low water levels—a situation similar to the disruption of barge traffic on the Mississippi River (Schwartz, 2013). The irregular weather, while specific to one year, illustrates a larger trend. Extreme drought and high temperatures have kept water levels in the Great Lakes below their long-term averages for the past 14 years. Over the past 43 years, Michigan has been the second-fastest-warming state in the country, followed by Minnesota and Wisconsin (Kalish, 2012).
Photovoltaic technology converts solar energy into electricity, which is an especially significant opportunity, as most of Toronto’s electricity is produced through nuclear, coal and natural gas generating stations (Energy 2007). All around the world for the past ten years the demand for this technology has risen with numbers showing a thirty percent growth rate (British 2012). Unfortunately, Toronto and the rest of Canada lag significantly behind the international community. Canada is behind nations such as South Korea and Mexico and has less than three percent of the installed base per capita compared to Germany, which is the world leader (British 2012). Toronto is even worse off falling behind even the low Canadian average.
Poverty is an exceptionally complicated social phenomenon, and trying to discover its causes is equally complicated. According to the Statistical Profile of Poverty in Canada (2009), 9.2% of Canadians- some 2.95 million people- are living on a low income. These people are living under the low income cut-off (LICO), meaning that they spend 20 percent more of their after tax income than the average person on the necessities of life, such as food, clothing, and shelter (Witt & Hermiston, 2010, p. 226). These include children, families with single-parent mothers, aboriginals, the mentally ill, the physically handicapped, recent immigrants, and students. For me, as a student of ECE program, child poverty is very important.
When considering poverty, Third World countries, like Ethiopia, often come to mind. Unfortunately, even a country like Canada, where generally citizens enjoy exceptional health, education, a growing economy, and quality of life is so much higher than many other places in the world, struggles with poverty. Today almost five million Canadians are poor. Cities have experienced a dramatic increase in homelessness, newcomers are finding it more difficult to gain an economic foothold and young people struggle to get into the job market. For years the social issue focus has been on reducing the poverty.
Education Destruction Canada has more than 350 schools, diplomas and certificates are recognized worldwide. The country ranks second in the world for the quality of education. Canadian universities are inferior to just a few British and American universities in prestige and are in the top twenty in the world rankingsю Nowdays, Canada become one of the most popular countries for international students that completely changed the goal of educational institutions in this country. Universities want to get more money from international students that led to the obvious consequences destruction in the education field. Education for International students completely challenged since it began develop.
Student’s Name Instructor Joslin Communications 1101 Date of the Essay Neglect of the Unfortunate The United States of America is one of the wealthiest nations in the world, yet we as citizens are plagued with senseless social issues such as homelessness and insufficient facilities for the mentally challenged. In the article “Facts and Figures: The Homeless,” the author states that “one approximation of the annual number of homeless in America estimates between 2.3 and 3.5 million people experience homelessness with some 58 percent of them living in shelters and 42 percent unsheltered.” The government, aware of the situation, does not take sufficient action to resolve these
Although estimates vary (depending on how poverty is defined), in 2008 almost 10% of all Canadian families were living at or below the poverty line (see INCOME DISTRIBUTION). The majority of these households contained two parents. Nearly 30% of lower-income families had at least one adult with a post-secondary degree and almost one-third had the equivalent of one person with full-time paid employment. However, lower wages for women and women's childcare responsibilities help explain why female-headed households have a very high poverty rate. By the 1990s lone-parent mothers had a 2 in 3 chance of being poor.