FARM students score lower than the overall average in both reading and math in 8th and 4th grade. This is probably due to the fact that families in lower income have a lower vocabulary, less education, and less parental support due to the fact that both parents are probably working as many hours as possible. Research proves that students who are living in poverty prior to entering school their oral language is more limited then those raised in a higher social economic status. African American students are disproportionately represented in the FARMS population in our area, mainly because they are half our population and in turn a high percentage of our FARM students. This could partially explain the low performance of African American students when compared to Caucasians.
The poor pay more for goods and services than do wealthier people. Supermarket chains and discount stores rarely locate in low-income communities, and because the poor have limited access to banks or other financial institutions, they must often rely on “check-cashing stores” that charge high rates for cashing checks or borrowing money. Myth #7: Even
Rushabh Shah English 1B Essay 1 12/05/2010 There are various definitions of poverty depending on the contest of the situation and the views of the person defining it. Poverty could be defined a lack of goods and services necessary to maintain a minimal adequate standard of living. The definition of the term adequate varies, however, with the general standard of living in a society and with public attitudes toward deprivation. No accepted definition of basic needs exists because poverty is a relative concept. In poorer countries it means living at the brink of subsistence, while in the U.S, few improvised families confront starvation, although many suffer from undernourishment.
P1 * People in lower socioeconomic groups have less opportunities People in lower socio-economic groups do not have as much education as the upper class. It is also unlikely they will have private healthcare and lower socioeconomic groups are not likely to have as good quality food as the people higher up. This is because healthy food with better quality tends to be more expensive. Lower socioeconomic groups are also less likely to have as much leisure activities. This is because they have not got much money and leisure activities cost a lot.
I believe Texas is still the lowest because it used to be one the most restrictive states in the US in voting laws and I feel that many people in Texas have not accustomed fully to the new regulations that allow every citizen to vote and also considering it is one of the biggest states in the US. Another reason voter turnout is so low in Texas is because of socioeconomic factors. Factors include poverty and education. Texas has the highest poverty in the US and there is a trend that shows that people in poverty are less likely to vote. People with low income also tend to have lesser education because they have fewer opportunities and many students drop out of school because they need to go into the workforce to support their family.
The hope for home ownership is even less for people in Tanzania and Uganda. One option that African’s can consider is through the Housing Finance Corporation. Customers pay only 5 to 10% deposit and use their pension savings to secure the loan. However, to secure a loan an income of $1,250 is required. Therefore, this is still a difficult and unaffordable option for most
Because of this, two-thirds of the patients seen on that day had multiple comorbidities possibly due to lack of preventative care. The report from the GADCH states that individuals without health insurance lag behind the insured population on many dimensions including having decreased rates of preventative care leading to multiple comorbidities resulting in fair to poor health (2007). When this happens, there are more sick days (usually without pay) resulting into lower income for this population that is already struggling to make ends meet. This impacts the entire region’s productivity leading into a cascading effect for rural areas (GADCH,
For example sick leave, annual leave, superannuation for retirement and pay for overtime. Without sick leave if someone was to fall sick they wouldn’t receive any pay and could possibly lose their job. No annual leave meant that if someone was to go on holiday they wouldn’t receive any pay, so as a result not many people took holidays as they relied on their income. Even though the living conditions for the working class families were better than that of other countries it was still quite poor. The conditions of the houses were very poor; they were mostly made out of cheap materials, were very small and packed closely together.
Many lower class citizens are at or below the poverty line and are have and unavoidable disadvantages and poorer chances to discover life’s possibilities. Regardless of the potential and ambition that a lower class individual could possess, he or she will not be given opportunities to succeed like a higher class individual. People who are considered lower class do not have access to many of the resources like a wealthier societies do. Based on their economic situation, they automatically start behind the eight ball. Wealthier societies have exceptional educational services which include better teachers, utilities, and curriculum, whereas poorer societies just get by on the bare minimum.
In some countries, no middle class exists. Only high class and low class, if someone is not rich they are dirt poor. In some third world countries people struggle just to survive. They have to live day to day not knowing if they will have a full meal, much less any scraps to eat. They have to go looking for food by either; looking through dumpsters, beg for the food or scrape up some change, enough to buy a very small portion.