However, the growth rate has been decreasing since then, and is projected to continue decreasing. The United Nations population projections out to 2100 (the red, orange, and green lines) show a possible peak in the world's population occurring as early as 2040. (contributors) The demographic transition is a model and theory that usually occurs in 4 stages describing the transition from high birth and death rates to low birth and death rates that occurs as part of the economic development of a country. All countries undergo a transition during which death rates fall but birth rates remain high. Consequently, population grows rapidly.
The per capita immigration rate in Canada has been pretty constant since the 1950s, and recent years have seen a gradual increase in the skill level and education of immigrants to Canada. Over the last 25 years the economic position of newcomers to Canada relative to the native population has gradually declined. In 2007 a statistics study on Canada shows that the income profile of recent immigrants has fallen by a substantial amount from 2000 to 2004. Recent immigrants themselves are far more likely than native born Canadians to initially have low incomes, with income and employment rates increasing towards the national average with more time spent in Canada. This is slowing down the amount of Immigration.
However, other factors should not be discounted as many factors led to Liberal Social Reforms introduction. The factors included are: Laissez-Faire Downfall, National Efficiency & National Security and Parliamentary Development .The Booth and Rowntrees reports highlighted to the Government that poverty was a larger national problem than once thought. Booths report established that in London just under a 3rd of people lived in poverty, while Rowntree‘s report supported the findings as York was in a similar state - Rowntree claimed many families could not afford necessities, therefore they were in poverty. The families in poverty would normally include either the young or the old, sometimes both. This informed liberals that the ‘welfare’ that the poor law provided, was not working.
(from:https://www.dosomething.org/actnow/tipsandtools/background-11-causes-teen-homelessness) As stated before, homelessness is one of the major growing social issues in Canada but a country as wealthy and stable like Canada shouldn't have homeless people. In my opinion, the reason why there's homelessness in Canada is because the economy is not equally distributed to it's citizens. Like most countries Canada has the upper class which consist of CEOs, large companies owners and are the wealthiest people, then upper-middle class which consists of highly educated people such as physicians, lawyers, doctors stockbrokers or corporate managers and many of them holding a university degree if not more, then middle class which consists of nurses, medical technicians/secretaries, lower level managers, semi- professionals etc, the working class which includes electricians, plumbers,
also states that employment opportunities would be on the rise as well, with about 62,700 persons per year being hired during construction, however the number would then drastically drop to just 1,150 people being employed long-term all over Canada. On top of this all, Enbridge stresses on the fact that Aboriginal groups will have opportunity to have abiding benefit if they were to own an equity share in the project. Over the first 30 years approximately 280 million dollars in net income will be aggregated to Aboriginal communities along the path of the pipeline. Steering away from the asserted economic benefits, the Northern Gateway Pipeline claims that this will all come with very little to almost no environmental harm. With all the distress about ruining our coastline, Enbridge continuously says that though their commitment to using modern technology, there will be a guarantee that the pipeline is shielded from our natural environment.
Chapter 39: The Stalemated Seventies A. Describe the economic situation going into the 1970s- The baby boom generation would be making less money than their parents but as the economic growth crested, the American spirit gave an unaccustomed sense of limits. I. Sources of Stagnation A. List a few reasons economists speculate could be the cause of the slump in productivity increasing presence in the work force of women and teens (had lower skills, less likely to take full time jobs),declining investment in new machinery, general shift of American economy from manufacturing to services B.
However, this annual "surplus" is expected to change to a deficit around 2015, when payments begin to exceed receipts and interest thereafter. The fiscal pressures are due to demographic trends, where the number of workers paying into the program continues declining relative to those receiving benefits. The number of workers paying into the program was 5.1 per retiree in 1960; this declined to 3.3 in 2007 and is projected to decline to 2.1 by 2035.Further, life expectancy continues to increase, meaning retirees collect benefits longer. Federal Reserve Chairman Bernanke has indicated that the aging of the population is a long-term trend, rather than a proverbial "pig moving through the python.” The accumulated surpluses are invested in special non-marketable Treasury securities (treasuries) issued by the U.S. government, which are deposited in the Social Security Trust Fund. At the end of 2009, the Trust Fund stood at $2.5 trillion.
If you pump in millions of new workers seeking jobs, it decreases the amount of work available. Plus, the laws of economic supply and demand will push the wages down far from what they would be. Another con is that immigrants, especially the poorer ones, consume a high amount of government resources like health care, education, welfare, etc. without paying a corresponding high rate of taxes. Almost all immigrants will start out earning very low wages, and unless they get additional education or training, they will likely
Although this number is pretty low, US is still ranked highest among countries based on infant mortality rates within the OECD countries. If the US cannot take care of our babies then how can they take care of us? The US is currently deciding on whether to pass the healthcare reform bill, which seeks to expand health care coverage to the approximately 40 million Americans who are currently uninsured by lowering the cost of health care and making the system more efficient (OpenCongress). But sometimes austere actions need to be taken otherewise the purpose gets defeated and victory accompanies the opposition. And in this case Canada has won the race against the
However, it is necessary to underline the fact that, in spite of the improvement of their socioeconomic position, they still occupy the lowers strata of Canadian society. To put it more precisely, the low income rates among immigrants from developing countries, especially from East Asia are the highest, while the low income rates among immigrants from the USA and Europe are consistently lower (see Figure 6). Moreover, this trend has grown stronger since the