Franklin Township Needs Assessment Elyse Kocylowskyi October 8, 2012 Franklin Township, NJ Franklin Township is the most populated municipality of Somerset County, containing 62,300 people, with a population density of 1,350 persons per square mile (Brandstetter, 2010). Franklin Township, to be hereafter called Franklin, not only has the largest population, it also has the fastest growing – with a rate 2.4 times higher than any other municipality, accounting for 43.9% of the total population growth in Somerset County between 2000 and 2010 (NJSDC, 2011). Money Magazine’s ranking of the ‘one-hundred best places to live’ in the US listed Franklin as the fifth best place to live in 2008, and the twenty-fifth best place to live for
He occupies most of the 470 acres to growing corn. Farming corn is all about the high yield harvesting from each acre of land. The enormous amount of corn harvest keeps the industrial food machine operating. After all the hard work the farmers put into the corn harvesting, the farmers are barely making a living. The high yield of corn, it’s depleting the land of the vital nutrients to grown corn.
Researchers found that approximately 1.7 million children suffer from diabetes and 12 percent of Chinese children are overweight. (China today, n.d.) It used to be a rarity to see an overweight person in streets of China, now it is commonplace. Western fast food is high in salt and calories and having a negative impact on the lives of Chinese people. The overall economic growth of China has led to bicycles being replaced with automobiles. McDonald’s has over 26 drive-thrus in China.
The average disposable Income rose 9% from 1920 to 1929, while the top 1% enjoyed a stupendous 75% increase of disposable income. An example of the quick increase of the disparity of wealth is Charles Ponzi and the Ponzi scheme who had shipped clients’ money across the oceans and had his agents buy international postal union reply coupons at depressed rates. Then sell them in other alien outposts. This
The banks are under-capitalized in their inadequate financial system and this increases China’s banking sector risk (IHS, 2014). Opportunities include the growth of cities within the country. Approximately “100 million [individuals are] expected to move into cities by 2020” (National Post, 2014). China’s continuous growth in the private sector and increase liberalization will result in further innovation and local brand name companies. (China Business Forecast, 2014).
What accounted for the rise of urbanization in America during the nineteenth century? Urban population of America increased seven fold after Civil War, natural increase accounted for a small part of urban growth, high infant mortality, declining fertility rate, high death rate .In 1900 almost 14 percent were urbanites even though only 12 cities had 1 million or more inhabitants. An agricultural economy to an industrial economy in the end of the 19th century were the most successful nation.The years of industrial expansion after the Civil War brought important changes to American society. The country became increasingly urban, and cities grew not only in terms of population but also in size, with skyscrapers pushing cities upward and new transportation systems extending the outward. Part of the urban population growth was fueled by an unprecedented mass immigration to the United States that continued unabated into the first two decades of the twentieth century.
Although there are many similarities between the development of Chicago and Chongqing, the speed and scale of Chongqing’s development is unprecedented and puts it in a class of its own. Chongqing is growing eight times as fast as Chicago had, averaging three hundred thousand new people a year. These citizens migrate to cities like Chongqing mainly for employment. In China, there is a massive pool of labor that will work for very low wages, as many Chinese individuals are used to surviving on less than two dollars a day. Combine inexpensive labor with modern factory technology, and one may understand the reason for huge investments in city expansion projects and infrastructure, and perhaps the Chinese competitive advantage.
With increasing demand for these facilities, organizations are seeing 25 to 60 percent increases (November 27, 1986). For example, the Holy Trinity Ministry to the Poor projected a 144 percent increase this year (November 27, 1986). The economy of Texas with an unemployment rate of 9.5 percent (1.5 percent higher the past year) along with the increasing number of transient out-of-towners has helped increase the problem with homeless being on the streets (November 27, 1986). In addition, the shortage of more than 45,000 units of low-income housing,
Jeffrey Ho Bendshadler English 50 1 March 2009 False Sense of Prosperity Due to the booming economy of postwar America during the 1950s and early 1960s, most Americans were living the American dream. “By 1960, per capita income was over $1800, $500 more than it had been in 1945.” (Brinkley, 790). The sales of private homes and automobiles increased dramatically; suburbs expansion grew rapidly; the widespread of technological advances lead many Americans to believe that prosperity was widely distributed. However, most people failed to recognize that more than 20 percent of the nation’s population was living below the poverty line. The population that was living in poverty was virtually hopeless; it was practically
In other words, “immigrants bring innovative ideas and entrepreneurial spirit to the U.S. economy.” (Griswold, 2002) Compared to the 1900s, Chinese immigration in the United States of America had transformed from 3% to almost 55% today. Chinese immigrants brought different set of skills and helped the nation built railroads which became one of the most valuable assets that America had used to build up the economy. According to US Patent and Trademark office, only 268,782 patents were signed by US origins compared to 274,033 of patents signed by immigrants in 2012 (PTMT, 2013).This strongly suggests that economic and technological improvements are brought up by the immigrants. “Twenty-five percent of engineering and technology companies started in the past decade were founded by immigrants” (Wadwha, 2007). Over the years, high percentage of Indian immigrants ruled the technological companies for they are highly talented in engineering and exceptionally smart in Math.