However, this data does not tell the whole story. Labour, while admittedly on a large decline from 1951 to 2011 (856 000 to 193 000), it has experienced a gain in 17 000 members since 2008. Furthermore, this data does not reflect the fairly recent rise in minor parties such as UKIP or Green Party, where many members of major parties have defected to, especially in recent years. This would account for the decline in
The statics show that more money is put into public education in the wealthier areas. These tend to be white neighborhoods. Incomes are higher thus house prices are higher thus taxes are higher and the money put into education is higher. Latinos and Black families tend to be larger and rely on less income than those earned by White families. Latinos and Black works tend to have to work more than one job to make ends meet.
He discusses that although the population is growing, our planet may not have all the resources it needs to accommodate the growing population. Kunzig states that with the increasing population will the planet have the resources it needs to support our growing population? It is discussed that the death to birth rate is completely unbalanced with 5 births to 2 deaths every second, which is causing our population to grow drastically. It is also discussed how the life span has also gone up around the world and by the year 2045 there will be 9 billion people living on this planet. Both are very big issues to worry
This is added to costs for advanced health care. Many feel that this will increase taxes, even causing some to not work because of how much they will have to pay to social security, putting an even further gap between the working and the elderly. We are often left with the question, what about us when we become elderly? When we reach elderly age, the elderly population will almost be doubled, and the working taxpayer percentages will be lower due to infertility, who
According to Iceland, “The poorest 20% of the global population has not benefited much from general improvements. Of the world’s population living in developing and transition economies, 2.8 billion, or almost half, live on less than $2 a day.” There has been an extreme measure of poverty throughout the world that has lead to material and income deprivation across several regions. Sadly among the wealth nation in the world, the United States has a greater proportion of people who are poor. The United States having the highest GNP per capita in the world, at $26,400, has higher levels of both absolute and relative poverty than other rich countries in Northern and Western Europe. This reflects inequality and an uneven distribution (both factors that attribute to poverty) of wealth in
In 2008, 15.45 million children, or 20.7%, were poor (Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States, 2009). Declining wages account for a major part in the increase of poverty in families. Therefore putting housing out of reach for many families. Statistics show that households still need to work over 40 hours a
Do Children Living below the Poverty Level have adequate Health Insurance? Abstract This paper goes over children living in poverty and whether they have access to adequate health insurance. The paper compiles statistics on uninsured children; researches the Medicaid laws that congress has passed and covers the effects that lack of health insurance has on children. Over 40 million people are living below the poverty line, and many children are living without any health coverage. The unemployment level in our country has nearly doubled since 2007, and children can be some of the hardest hit it our economy.
“The most obvious example lies in the education system. Upward mobility is increasingly determined my education” (Meritocracy in America, 3). With the more education you receive there will be more chances a person will make more money at a job. “The education system is increasingly stratified by social class, and poor children have a double disadvantage. They attend school with fewer resources than those of their richer contemporaries” (Meritocracy in America, 3).
Included are, “lack of universal access, unrelenting surge in costs, decreasing affordability for much of the population, and variable, often mediocre quality of care”. Lack of access is an enormous problem within the United States, where according to a Gallup poll, “more than 16% of American adults were without health coverage in January and February of this year” (Mendes, 2010). This is a continuous trend that seemed to elevate as our economy declined in 2008. Our health care costs are increasing faster than the economy. Our aging population, increasing technology, increasing administrative costs, and chronic disease are among only a few issues that have resulted in the increase of health care costs.
We Should Be Concerned About the Speed of Population Growth in South and East Asia In a region that’s population is growing in between 1 and 2 percents annually, and is already struggling greatly to take care of the people that they have, something needs to be done before it gets any more out of hand. As it stands now the population density of East Asia is around 131 people per Km, and South Asia’s isn’t much less. There isn’t enough food to support the current population, nor is the health care system in place able to take care of the number of people now. Crime rates tend to increase as a country or region's population increases. Something needs to be done to either control the population growth in these regions or find a way to make it possible for such a large number of people to live in that region.