...Erik Casimir Lindholm Professor: Will English 1 Essay #4 May 13 2012 Unemployment today The unemployment rate today is less than it has been before, but it is still more than a year ago. This is a problem that always is an issue, and wherever you go in the world, there are almost always some people without a job. Today’s unemployment rate is a problem not just for the people without a job, but for the government and the state’s economic status. But how does unemployment affect our economy? Because with a lot of jobs, there is a good quality of life, and the money in the society is divided into all families instead as it is today, when some have too much and others have nothing. With a job to earn money from, a parent can take care of its family by providing with food and shelter, and this is one of the basic ideas of survival today. ------------------------------------------------- Unemployment rates by age today in the United States of America* ------------------------------------------------- Teenagers – 24.9% Whites – 7.4% ------------------------------------------------- Adult Women – 7.5% Hispanics – 10.3% ------------------------------------------------- Adult Men – 7.4% Blacks - 13.05 ------------------------------------------------- *Statistics taken from The Bureau of labor statistics; http://bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm There are many factors contributing to the difference between African Americans and Whites. Fewer black people...
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...Unemployment benefits are found to be very beneficial in the state of Virginia, along with any other state. Everyday, citizens are losing their jobs left and right, due to an exhausting amount of reasons. Without a good amount of unemployment benefits, citizens may find it impossible to survive the real world. However, the Virginia Employment Commission, for Virginia citizens only, has to offer an outstanding amount of unemployment benefits, for instance an insurance program, workforce agency, and a housing benefit. For the unemployed, an insurance program is a benefit used to provide temporary financial assistance to workers who are currently unemployed through no fault of their own (Insurance, Claim). In order to qualify for this program,...
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...Nevada’s Future Nevada Nevada has come a long way. In the 1990s the population of Nevada was only 1,200,000 and now they have nearly doubled in size to 2,758,931 (US Census 2013). Nevada is well known throughout the world well I should say a certain city within in Nevada is well known, and that is Las Vegas. Many people have always wanted to come to Nevada but only for tourism not so much living. As you can see from the population, that has now changed. Jobs have grown in Nevada since all these casinos have now been opening up. Now that the casinos have helped build the population this has caused Nevada to have to grow in the local communities meaning more hospitals, retail stores, gas stations and so on. Nevada also seems to be very family oriented with the extreme amount of parks within the communities and also all of the amazing indoor play facilities for parents and their children. Nevada seems to revolve around its Gambling industry. I believe that this industry is what makes Nevada but there is also another. Will Nevada survive if the casinos go away and also mining comes to a stop? Casinos I believe that Nevada would fall dramatically if the casinos were to leave. They are a big impact on the local communities. People do not know that hotels like the MGM according to their annual 2012 report have spent $1 billion on supporting minority, women and disabled owned businesses (MGM 2011). MGM has also donated...
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...war on religion and a update on the current job market status and how Romney won't help it. Also before I get started I wanted to point out that the host was sort of rude and liked cutting people off when they speak. I'm sure he knows his politics but who does he think he is? I may be exaggerating but he rubbed me the wrong way with his questions, I mean attacks. To start off the show the hosts asked Mr. Gingrich what he thought about Mitt Romney and his winning poles in Nevada. The well thought response of Mr. Gingrich was as something like this. Mr. Gingrich Accused Mitt Romney of spreading rumors that Newt would withdraw from the race at Caucus time, which I'm still not sure exactly what Caucus is or if it should even be capitalized or not, heh. In, addition to his first response he added that he is basically moving on and not dreading on the past. Mr. Gingrich seems to have a clear agenda ahead as he continues to respond to the statement that basically meant Romney just cleaned house in Nevada. Newt says he is moving on, moving to Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee and Texas and focuses and what he can still do and not what he did. Mr. Gingrich also makes it clear that he is looking to make this a “choice” campaign unlike Romney's. He also ridiculed Romney for having an process oriented campaign while Newt would like a issue oriented campaign. Mr. Gingrich also added to his response that he is focuses on presenting how big the change needs to be in Washington and presenting...
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...Jarrod Brown 11/17/10 Nevada Gubernatorial Race: 2010 Nevada, the home of the infamous adult playground Las Vegas was admitted into the United States of America under Abraham Lincoln in 1864. Admission into the union was rushed to help ensure Lincoln's reelection for his second term. The state held strong ties to big business and helped lead to Lincoln winning the election. The history of Governors in Nevada is split almost even with thier being only a handfull more republicans throughout history than democrats, and a handful of silver party members serving as well. Governors in Nevada are limited to serve two terms of four years each. The race for governor this year was never really a tight one as Brian Sandoval held the lead in polls throughout the race, it was still a competitive fight between Sandoval and Rory Reid. Much controversey did however make the republican nomination interesting. (Huffington Post 2) As time led to the primary elections the bid for the democratic nomination might as well have been uncontested. Rory Reid, Chairman of the Clark County Commission,only had an opponent by definition from Frederick L. Conquest. Reid the son of senate majority leader Harry Reid, easily took the win in the primary election becoming the democratic nominee and awaiting to see who would rise to face him from the complicated republican...
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...Summary Pahrump is a census-designated place (CDP) and an unincorporated town located in the southeast corner of Nye County, Nevada. It is 60 miles west of Las Vegas Nevada, and 60 miles east of Death Valley. Pahrump is about 35 miles long and 8 to 15 miles wide, an area of approximately 364 square miles. Surrounding the Valley are the Spring Mountain range to the east and the Nopah Mountains to the west. This document is a report analyzing the current property market status and demographics in Pahrump. The purpose of this report is to assess the viability of building a mobile home park in Pahrump, NV. Location of Pahrump in Nevada on Google Maps Pahrump – An Introduction The peaceful Pahrump Valley of Southern Nevada is located approximately 45 miles West of Las Vegas and 60 miles East of Death Valley. The word Pahrump is a Paiute Indian expression interpreted to mean "water rock" or "place where big waters flow". Pahrump offers a rural, country-like atmosphere with clean fresh air, plenty of good water and a temperate desert climate second to none. The surrounding majestic mountain ranges and breathtaking sunsets are truly awesome. People are friendly, property taxes are low and there are no personal or corporate taxes. With a population of about 36,000 there is no traffic to fight and very little crime. Pahrump was originally inhabited by the Shoshone. It was slowly inhabited by American settlers in the late 19th century. They reportedly chose the name for Pahrump...
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...One main one is parents or legal guardian that are unemployed. For example in Mississippi, where the hunger rate for children is 35%, a typical household would make less than $37,095 in 2012. This is a lower median income than any other state in America. In Nevada, where the unemployment rate was 11.5% in 2012, at least half of the children their were eligible for reduced lunch programs. In Las Vegas 80% or 124,600 children were living in food-insecure households (Thomas, 2014). All of these tell us that one reason behind Child hunger in America is unemployment (Brown, 2011). Another Factor of child hunger is poverty. Poverty is the state of being extremely poor. The national poverty rate is 23%, but this is an average, some states have higher averages that has been brought down by the states with low poverty rates. If we manage to end poverty we can also end...
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...Alexander Moreno Philosophy 11/17/11 Legalize Gambling in California People don’t like gambling until they win, and people love money. The government doesn’t like gambling, unless they can tax it. People think of gambling and automatically like a trained gambler think of Las Vegas or Atlantic City. Gambling has been in America’s blood since before we were a country. All thirteen original colonies established lotteries to raise revenue. 48 states today that have legalized some form of gambling and have made billions of dollars. 43% of Nevada’s general fund is fed by gaming-tax revenue, which means casinos pump in $9 billion dollars of revenue annually for the state. California is no stranger to gambling, the Gold Rush set off a gambling boom in San Francisco where it replaced New Orleans as the center for gambling in the United States at that time. California must legalize gambling to raise revenue for its state deficit and to put that money back into its communities. California has always set new standards and exceeds expectations with its impractical views, but gambling has been left in gold dust. With billions of dollars to be made for the state, legalizing gambling in California and taxing it seems to be a more practical idea than to keep it illegal. With Indian gaming...
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...Ms. Christine Carrasquillo, MBA National Human Resource Recruiter 2050 Spectrum Blvd. Fort Lauderdale, FL 33309 November 7, 2012 John Dearing III Program Manager 2050 Spectrum Blvd. Fort Lauderdale, FL 33309 Dear Mr. Dearing, After careful thought and consideration, I, Christine Carrasquillo do hereby request permission to conduct an in-depth investigation on the demographics of the areas we currently are having challenges in. This includes but is not limited to: market research, consumer behavior with regards to market analysis, population, income analysis, market employment trends and the norm. The reason this research is required is because our tracking report indicates that not enough qualified candidates are being located and/or submitted to the current job orders in the following regions; this includes but is not limited to: Ohio and Missouri. Currently, the most common position needed to fill is in the Mortgage Loan Processing field. In general, this position’s qualifications and responsibilities are defined as: • “Obtain necessary information to process and complete loan files. • Examine documents to ensure accuracy and compliance with existing underwriting guidelines. • Must have a high school diploma or its equivalent and 0-2 years of related experience. • Must have knowledge of commonly-used concepts, practices, and procedures within a particular field. • Rely on instructions and pre-established guidelines to perform the...
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...Most people believe that they deserve the rights they are granted by the government. A prime example of this is the right to do what you want with your body, as long as you don’t hurt anybody else. This is considered a basic human right and is provided for in the constitution. One example of where you should be able to do whatever you want with your body is prostitution. The government always has too much power over our health. It can draft us and make us go into internment camps like the Japanese in WW2. It certainly shouldn’t say whether or not we have the right to pay for sex with a consenting adult. For women its all they can do in order to break themselves of being poverty stricken sometimes. So who are we to deprive them of their right to do whatever they want with their body? It could be the only thing that keeps them from feeding there family from a dumpster. Nevertheless, the government doesn’t care about that, all it cares about is regulating something it sees as supposedly “bad,” that is paying for sex. One of the benefits of legalizing prostitution would be that the government would actually be able to regulate it. This would make it a more supervised practice, so it wouldn’t spread AIDS and herpes and other diseases. The prostitutes could be tested just like they are tested in places where it is legal, such as Las Vegas. The cold hard fact is that by putting a restriction on the solicitation of sex the government essentially is putting a restriction...
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...Principles of Economics 1101 July 25, 2013 Unemployment Differences between Races/Nationalities Introduction It seems to me that the only thing that is changing from day to day is unemployed workers and the fact of businesses and companies cutting jobs. These companies are cutting positions by lying off workers and some are simply closing the doors. As a result of this type of action, the unemployment rate is steadily climbing. I feel that unemployment is one of America’s largest focuses. The effect of unemployment imposes a huge impact on America’s economy. When people are not working or just can’t find a job, they consume less income forcing a lower demand for goods and services that are not essential to us. The fact of less spending leads to companies being forced to figure out ways to cut cost in order to stay in business. The unemployment labor force is made up of different genders, ethnic groups, and age brackets. It is known that the unemployment rates are different for each one of them. When it comes to sex, it doesn’t matter what race or ethnic group you come from, there are more male unemployed than women. Although, many of these groups were once part of the workforce, they are not counted anymore due to being laid off from their jobs. With so many people not working, this leads to other problems like increased crime rates, poverty, and health problems. Unemployment for African Americans As the black unemployment persists at a high rate that seems to be...
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...DEGREE because of the effect educational attainment has on which employment opportunities are available to an individual. This effect of DEGREE works two ways: Meeting a minimum education requirement to hold a position, and being considered overqualified for a position due to educational attainment. Model UNEMPLOYED = DEGREE + FEMALE + GDP + WORKFORCE Definition of variables: UNEMPLOYED – This dependent variable represents the percentage of unemployed persons per each of the 31 states listed. Different factors affect unemployment, and each independent variable listeddetermines UNEMPLOYED in this model. DEGREE –This is the primary independent variable that represents the number of persons in each state with a bachelor’s degree. This represents bachelor’s degree holders only, not those with advance degrees. This independent variable has the greatest impact on the dependent variable, UNEMPLOYED. Somoza (2012) asserts the unemployment rate for college graduates was only a third of the rate for those who only attained high school diplomas. Additionally, there is an important relationship between education and labor market success, with education serving as an umbrella during economic storms (Somoza, 2012). According to DePrince and Morris (2008), “the average educational level of the labor force ages 25 and older has...
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...over one hundred million acres of farmland became useless. The storms made them lose all of the soil or the topsoil. It would become for often to see “ hobos. “ In one single year at least 6,500 hobos died in accidents. Hobos would try to seek shelter on trains, train managers would get aggravated and hired people called “ bulls. “ I am pretty sure bulls killed more people than the dust bowl itself. People who lived in the plains began getting tired of being hit the hardest. After four years without rain, they started moving more into the west in search for farm work. The unemployment rate grew more. For the farmers who stayed in the western plains things soon became somewhat better. Many other states saw how people would sacrifice their families for a better future. But what the people didn’t know is that James E. Davis hired police to patrol the states’ perimeters of Nevada and Oregon. In the 1920s an insect from mexico was introduced to U.S. farmers. It was called the boll weevil. It would eat cotton, cotton was a major source back then. The boll weevil also lead into the Great Depression. There was no pesticide for the boll weevil, therefor it made it impossible to get rid of the boll weevil. The government wanted to provide food for their people, therefore they thought it would be a great idea to kill over six million pigs. Farm workers soon were disturbed and decided to go on strike. The strike lasted for twenty four days. After a while...
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...industrialized economy including Germany, Italy, Japan, Britain, France, and others, was completely destructed. Various economists and the media have often linked the current economic crisis that heightened in 2008 to the great depression which occurred decades ago. Looking at the implications of the great depression and what is happening today, clearly there are several direct similarities between the two economic crises. Through a brief analysis of the two economic scenarios, this paper hence aims to show how they are related. What are the similarities with the current financial crisis? Some of the similarities between today’s economic situation and the Great Depression of 1920s include: High rates of unemployment- Economic forces are the main causes of unemployment in most countries today. Deteriorating economic conditions such as recession and depression affects the business, thus forcing them to reduce the size their workforce(Helbling, 2015)..The great depression saw a quarter of the United States population lose their jobs, particularly in 1933. The current economic situation which begun in 2008, have led to...
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...depression where many Virginia individuals and families were adversely affected. These Virginia residents were affected financially, economicaly, and even mentally. The federal government of the responded by coming up with a welfare program whose objective was to assist those who were in debt. This mostly applied to those who had little or no income for groceries and gas. By comparing the cost of a single parent on assistance versus a single parent working part-time not on assistance, the welfare system benefits the non-worker. These debt relief programs are an essential idea because they assist in minimizing bankruptcy in Virginia. This has been the goal of Virginia residents because it acts as a guiding tool in ensuring that the levels of unemployment and poverty are always kept as low as possible. For example, a single parent who get gates state medical and food stamps receives US $ 4000 annually while a single parent working part- time and getting nothing from the state gets more than US $ 10,0000 annually (Shapiro, 2007). However, even though many Americans are in support of this program there are a few out there who are against it. This is because according to them, this welfare program has brought in the aspect of laziness and over dependency on their government with more than 20% of the population depending on the welfare (Heinemann, 1996). They continue abusing the welfare program by not making an effort in applying or looking for jobs, possessing more children to attain the...
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