The average inmates sentence of 4 years cost $132,000. The average education cost over 13 years is $117,000. With better education we may be saving the tax payers some money. Children in these neighborhoods are screaming for someone to save them. For some, education is that hero but in America it's failing thousands of children.
Joseph Kony the head rebel leader on the planet. He stands accused of brainwashing countless children across northern Uganda. turning girls into sex slaves and boys into soilders making them kill their own parents. His so-called Christian movement, the Lord’s Resistance Army, has terrorized villagers in at least four countries in central Africa for nearly 20 years, killing tens of thousands of people. what he did was kidnap children to the point where they were scared to sleep at night in fear konys army would find them and steal them .
Omar’s government is under attack by combined armies of over 60,000 rebels. Omar was the president during 2005 when the Islamic theologian, Hassan al-Turabi, allowed the terrorist Osama Bin Laden, to establish headquarters of the al-Qaeda group in Sudan(Natsios). The fight between Sudan and South Sudan started over 5 decades ago due to the fact that South Sudan wanted to be its own country, but Sudan wouldn’t let that happen. Sudan thinks everyone
All this had come to one end when Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM), a political party from Southern Sudan has signed Comprehensive Peace Agreement (2005) with the government of Sudan in 2005. This not just indicating the end of second civil war and Darfur crisis, two catastrophic humanitarian crisis which ended at least a million of lives, but also the beginning of a newly born country in 2011, Republic of South Sudan. Republic of South Sudan’s independence status, worst health indicators and weakest economy are the effects of humanitarian crisis in Sudan. After years of being oppress by the northern government, South Sudanese has fought hard and successfully gained independence status from Sudan. At
Over 1/3 of the world’s children suffer from absolute poverty, and over 1/3 of all children in the world have to live in a dwelling with more than five people in each room. Also in developing countries over 375 million children drink unsafe water, which can be a cause of diseases. Infectious diseases are one of the main causes of death in some countries, and many children die before there 5th birthday. A big difference between countries is the fact that in countries such as Sierra Leone there are child soldiers. These children never experience the normal childhood, or get the true experience of the ‘golden age’.
The lack of motivation caused by years of not having a job and watching your family suffer in poverty is a condition that not too many of us are familiar with. “Native American Poverty,” by Tom Rodgers justifies the allegations that a large percentage, about 25%, of the Native Americans live in poverty. “According to the US Census Bureau, these Americans earn a median annual income of $33,627. One in every four (25.3 percent) lives in poverty and nearly a third (29.9 percent) are without health insurance coverage.” The lack of money has become a huge component in the dismemberment of the culture that the Natives so lavishly submerged themselves into, and the picking up other undesirable traits such as drinking. The
For example, 14,000 kids have been positively affected by the Michigan Earned Income tax credit, but because it has been cut by 14%, low-income youth are unable to receive the benefits (kidscount). Youth in families that are receiving unemployment are affected because unemployment was cut from 26 weeks to 20 weeks and cash assistance has become more difficult to receive (kidscount). Poverty affects the youth in many ways, such as their family life and education. Many children are neglected in cases of low-income families. 32,500 children have been neglected in 2010, and in Ingham County 42 percent of children have been abused or neglected (milhs.org).
One-third of young US girls, about 820,000, become pregnant before they turn 20 (80% are unmarried) and 4 million American teens contract an STD each year. (Teen Sex- Do Abstinence Only Programs Discourage Teen Sex? Web) With these statistics, it is apparent that teens are not making wise decisions regarding their own health and well-being. Nothing is more serious and personal than your health, and teens don’t seem to be able to grasp the gravity of the situation. Teens are bombarded with sex education, and yet have the highest STD rates in the country.
Because of the 1982 United States Supreme Court decision of Plyler vs. Doe, states are required to provide illegal immigrant students with a free public school education. Thirteen years after this Court decision, public school systems in states with large illegal immigrant populations are going bankrupt (Grandrath 3). According Walsh, Public education has cost U.S. taxpayer an estimated $2 trillion since 1980 when President Jimmy Carter rewarded his supporters in the National Education Association (NEA), the teachers union, by creating the U.S. Department of Education (1). There are an estimated 1.5 million school-aged illegal immigrants in the United States public education system and the government spends an estimated $12 billion annually to educate them. The biggest chunks are spent by California ($7.7 billion) and Texas (3.9 billion), where the situation has become a public education crisis with no end in sight (Illegal Immigrants Cause Public School Crisis 1).
The government is allowing immigrants to enter the country with less than satisfactory education skills. Nearly 31 percent of foreign born residents over the age of twenty-five are without a high school diploma, compared to just 10 percent of native-born residents. Immigrants trail behind natives in college attendance. It wouldn’t make sense to grant permanent legal status and full job market to millions of unskilled immigrants. Journalist Sonia Nazario states, “Those harderst hit by the influx of immigrants are disadvantaged native-born minorities who don’t have a high school degree”(536).