India has the largest child population in the world. In 2010, the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund reported that 20 percent of worlds’ children population are in India. India children population for ages 0 to14 exceeded the Chinese children population in 2010 by 66 million (UNICEF 3). However, India has the world’s largest children population, not all Indians children have the same opportunity to grow up healthy, educated, and able to fulfil their desires and potential as other
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Social Inequality Unit 07 What is the relationship between ethnicity and inequality? Learning targets: • There are ethnic differences in life chances in the UK. • Some ethnic minorities appear to be the victims of racism and discrimination in the UK • There have been strict laws to prevent racism and ethnic inequality in the UK. • There are those who believe that the social changes that have come about because of legal controls are more cosmetic than deeply
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Impacts: India: Although the Indian economy has grown steadily over the last two decades, its growth has been Uneven when comparing social groups, economic groups, geographic regions, and rural and urban Areas. Between 1999 and 2008, the annualized growth rates for Gujarat, Haryana, or Delhi were much higher than for Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, or Madhya Pradesh. Poverty rates in rural Orissa (43%) And rural Bihar (41%) is among the world's most extreme. Poverty has taken away the basic rights of the poor
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She also touches upon Social Security and Medicare- an issue which resonates with the higher population of older residents in the area and the rising costs of living. Rice’s critical investigations and combats of DWI are also so aligned with District 4’s demographics, particularly due to the busy roadways, dense population, and high rate of drunk driving related convictions, “Nassau County earned one of the highest conviction rates in the state for DWI crimes
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second and third generation immigrants living in East Harlem (Bourgois 2006: 15). He conducted a participant-observer study of the ethnic groups living in El Barrio primarily focusing on Puerto Ricans. He discusses East Harlem’s cultural history emphasizing the racial tension that still exists today. Bourgois notes the street culture associated with residents in El Barrio, “In this particular case of the United States, the concentration of socially marginalized populations into politically and ecologically
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with their hand in the cookie jar, they don’t typically get rewarded with an extra cookie. Yet the Obama Administration has decided they will take the unusual step of rewarding illegal immigration by providing business support to undocumented immigrants from El Salvador that were deported from the United States. [1] To be clear, the program isn’t incidentally helping deportees—it is directly intended to assist them. The program, which is administered by the non-profit Instituto Salvadorno Del
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Works Cited Candib, Lucy M. 2007 Obesity and Diabetes in Vulnerable Populations: Reflection on Proximal and Distal Causes. Annals of Family Medicine 5(6):547–556. Carrion, Iraida V., Heide Casta˜neda, Dinorah Martinez–Tyson, and Nolan Kline 2011 Barriers Impeding Access to Primary Oral Health Care Among Farmworker Families in Central Florida. Chaffin, Jeffrey G., Satish Chandra, S. Pai, and Robert A. Bagramian 2003 Caries Prevalence in Northwest Michigan Migrant Children. Journal of Dentistry
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will get more people would want to sell it. This is short term as when more houses appear on the market it will lead to a reduction in price if there isn’t enough demand. A possibility to why the demand is high could be the issue of immigration. Immigrants are placing huge amounts of pressure on the housing market driving up rents and property prices. The massive influx is also forcing the government to dramatically revise its house building targets, putting greenbelt land at risk. On average 100
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Without the support of banding together and forming unions the immigrant workers remain at the mercy of their employers. The efforts, if they can be called that, amount to for the most part, empty suggestions when actions are long overdue. The early sixties found the meat packing industry cutting wages in half and dropping many benefits. Unions no longer had the hold needed to protect the worker. Workers were for the most part immigrants from Mexico who accepted the meatpackers’ low wages and tried
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GPT 1 Task 3 Cassandra Green Bette Bogdan August 23, 2014 Outbreak From April to May 2013 there was a measles outbreak that occurred in a North Carolina community. One unvaccinated person traveling from India back to the United States brought the infection with them. The person belonged to a Hare Krishna community of about 25 families that did not vaccinate for communicable diseases and the result was an outbreak between two counties. Measles is a very contagious respiratory disease spread
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