Poverty has been a consistent problem throughout history. No matter what the median income‚ unemployment or overall prosperity level is‚ there will always be people who are homeless and hungry. Despite being one of the most prosperous countries in the world‚ the United States is not immune to it either. Even today‚ there are still people struggling to find shelter‚ feed their kids and find warm clothing. This social problem has various impacts on different institutions and people. However‚ there
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Economics Commentary U.S. Employers slashed jobs for the third straight month in March and unemployment rose to a nearly three-year high‚ offering the latest signs that the economy has fallen into a recession. The Labor Department’s much anticipated report‚ released Friday the 4th of April‚ showed a net loss of 80‚000 jobs last month. That marks the third straight month that jobs have fallen - the longest period of decline since early 2003. Now having acknowledged that the US is in a recession
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Definitions of poverty range from narrow economic to broader social terms; poverty is the state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions. More broadly poverty refers to a level of material deprivation that is greater than subsistence living. Even more generally poverty has been described as a condition of not having the means to address basic human needs such as clean water‚ nutrition‚ health care‚ education‚ clothing and shelter. Regardless of the definition‚ poor individuals
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Why is youth unemployment so high? May 8th 2013‚ 23:50 by J.F. | NEW YORK YOUTH unemployment is blighting a whole generation of youngsters. The International Labour Organisation estimates there are 75m 15-to-24-year-olds looking for work across the globe. But this figure excludes a large number of youngsters who do not participate in the labour market at all. Among the 34 members of the OECD‚ a club of rich nations‚ it is estimated there are 26m youths not in education‚ employment or training
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While the unemployment rate has fallen over the past couple of years‚ the incidence of long term unemployment has been on the rise and therefore still remains a critical policy issue in Australia. The question of how best to reduce unemployment has been a significant part of the policy agenda for more than two decades due to the complex problems it causes for both policy makers and the individuals affected (Dixon‚ 2004 & Walsh‚ 1987). Those that are long term unemployed (LTU)‚ unemployed for 52 weeks
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Across regions‚ young people are disproportionately affected by unemployment‚ underemployment‚ vulnerable employment and working poverty. Even during periods of economic growth‚ many economies have been unable to absorb large youth populations into the labour market. In recent years‚ however‚ the global financial and economic crisis has further hit young people particularly hard in the developed world. The need to provide more and better jobs for young people exists across countries. However‚ youth
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seen in the graph above‚ during 2009 the growth rate of Indonesia’s GDP fell harder than any of the years before 2008 (reaching a year lowest of -3.57 in growth.) The economic crisis in 1998 hit Indonesia quite severely. It was expected that inflation rate would rise between 80% - 100% at the end of the year in comparison with only a 10% increase during the years of high economic growth. During the 1998 crisis‚ Indonesia’s GDP decreased by 12%. The crisis was caused by the sudden withdrawal
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Preliminary Report One | Unemployment in the Philippines | | Ysabela carisse L. de Claro | 10/15/2012 | Sociology A52 11236396 Output One in Sociology | Our country faces problems like any country in the world. Poverty‚ crimes‚ environmental issues‚ etc. Some problems are rather easier to solve than others but one problem that is rather massive in the Philippines is unemployment. But what is unemployment? Unemployment according to the International Labour Organization occurs when
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The national unemployment rate fell to 4.4 percent in October the lowest level of unemployment since May 2001. This is a sign of unexpected strength in the job market. [The unemployment rate is based on a survey of households‚ rather than the survey of employers used to calculate the payroll number. Unemployment does not include full-time students‚ the retired‚ children‚ or those not actively looking for a paying job.] The unemployment level is defined as the labor force minus the number of people
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GDP Calculation (expenditure approach) Consumption(C): –The spending by households on goods and services‚ with the exception of purchases of new housing. •Investment (I): –The spending on capital equipment‚ inventories and structures‚ including household purchases of new housing. •Government purchases (G): –The spending on goods and services by local‚ state and federal governments. –Does notinclude transfer payments because they are not made in exchange for currently produced goods
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