Females make up 50.7 % of the population in 2013. 48.3 % of the population is Latinos and Hispanics, 35.1 % of the population is born outside of the United States, and 56.8 % of the population over 5 years old speaks a language other than English at home. B.1. Population Economic Status Assessment Los Angeles County is a large community with unemployment rate of 9.9%, which is higher that the California rate of 8.9% (County Health Ranking 2015). With 48.3% of the population being Hispanic and Latinos, 35.1 % of the population being born outside of the United States, and 56.8% of the population over 5 year old speaking a language other than English at home, this plays an important factor in education in terms of academic education and also in the education of preventative healthcare practices.
6.7% of residents 25 and older have a four-year degree. More than 15, 000 in this area have an education less than high school, with a percentage of residents 25 and older. An average household size is around 3.3 people, with over 90% renting. The rate of families headed by single parents is high for the city of Los Angeles. This accounts for over 2, 000 families with a rate of 23.3%.
* California State University Channel Islands is a four-year public university located in Ventura County, midway between Santa Barbara and Los Angeles at 1 University Drive, Camarillo, CA 9301; in total, it occupies 833 Acres. California State University Channel Islands opened in 2002 as the 23rd campus in the California State University (CSU) system. Despite its, name the campus is not located on the Channel Islands. At 63%, females are more in numbers than men at 37%. The ethnic background of the population are white at 45.8% and Hispanic at 37.7%.
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
The California Community Colleges System consists of over one hundred community colleges (112 to be exact) in seventy-two community college districts in California. It is the largest system of higher education in the world, serving more that 2.4 million students with a wide variety of educational and career goals. The defnition of a chancellor is a leader of a college or university, usually wither the executive or ceremonial head of the university or of a university campus. The newly appointed chanvellor, Dr. Brice W. Harris, is no stranger to holding a higher power. Prior to being selected as the leader of the largest system of higher education in the nation Harris served sixteen years as chancellor of the Los Rios Community College District in the Sacramento region, president of Fresno City College and a faculty member and vice chancellor in the Kansas City, Mo., community college system.
With a degree from these types of colleges a graduate usually will make their way into upper echelon of the United States workforce. However, Asian Americans only hold less than two percent of top corporate jobs. The average income of an Asian American in the year of 2009 was approximately $68,780, which is the highest among all race groups. However, the poverty rate of Asians in 2009 was up to 12.5 percent from 10.6 percent in 2007. Researchers, supported by Deloitte, Goldman Sachs, Pfizer and Time Warner, conducted 2,952 surveys of working-aged men and women and gathered qualitative and quantitative data to conclude that many Asian-Americans, whether immigrant or native born, find it hard to "fit in" the upper management ranks.
This is also called demographic data and it is often used for government, marketing, and opinion research. Sacramento is in the central valley of California with a population of 472,178 people, according to the US Census Bureau for 2010( United States Census Bureau", 2013). Sacramento is the 35th most
Since a vegetarian diet has less fat, more fiber which passes cancer substances through your intestines, more nutrients, less oxidizing iron, and more folic acid which boosts methionine an amino acid that can prevent cancerous changes. Some chemicals in fruits and vegetables such as: indoles, monoterpenes and cellophane may help fight off cancer. Some research says that animal protein may fuel the growth of cancerous tumors. Vegetarians are less likely to get diabetes. Since, the diet helps keep weight down and it is high in fiber which lowers blood sugar levels.
In 2010, the total U.S. Hispanic population was 16 percent of the total U.S. population. By the year 2050 that number is expected to rise to 30.2 percent of the total U.S. population (U.S. Census Bureau, 2008). Even though the U.S. population continues to grow in diversity; nurses remained a homogenous group. According to Maier-Lorentz (2008), “Approximately 90% of all Registered Nurses are Caucasian. Although Hispanics have become the majority minority in the U.S., it is estimated that there are only 2 % Hispanic Registered Nurses in the nursing profession (Minority Nursing Statistics, 2005)” (p.37).
One proposal currently in motion is long term housing for youth who experience mental health issues. Currently there is only one program that serves homeless youth; the program is not in the Anchorage area. There have not been many studies completed in Alaska, only a recent study by the University of Alaska Anchorage and Covenant House Alaska have provided the data that shows that services are needed for Native Alaskan youth (2010) What do we know about homeless youth? Youth ages 18 and younger will experience homelessness, according to a study by The Alaska Mental Health board (1999), 1.6 to 1.7 million people under 18 will experience homelessness each year. (That's more than the population of Philadelphia.)