Bureau of Labor Statistics

a monumental impact on my ethics and values. That summer we moved out to Scott City and shared a house with our grandparents while we finished remodeling our house. During this time I worked for my grandfather on his farm and helped with multiple labor intensive jobs. Influentially impacting my life, my grandfather teaches me new lessons every day. Through his generous giving and hard-work ethic he has demonstrated to me how to approach life. Working with him every summer since I moved here, has…

Up until today, employment in the electronics industry is still in demand. Even though electronics is a highly competitive industry, only the pay for management level employees is competitive. About 20% of the manual labor was not provided with a sufficient wage. Production job workers are mostly women or immigrants []. They are often paid with the Silicon Valley minimum wage of $10.30 []. However, based on the estimation of Living Wage Calculator, the bare minimum…

Although my top three choices, from the Career Bridge quiz, were not in the natural resources tab I still chose to research a Game Warden. Everything about being a Game Warden sounds really nice to me. Especially when they are primarily outdoors, work with others to educate the public about laws and regulations, use off-road vehicles almost every day, and most importantly conserve wildlife. First of all, to become a Game Warden, you have to meet some education requirements. According to " Fish…

Photography Photographers work with people everyday they provide people memories and records of events that have happened. I have chosen this career because I love taking pictures of action and emotion of in that moment. I really enjoy witnessing people's reaction to what they look like in that moment of happiness, sadness, and other emotions. When they look at the picture they want to remember things that you don't always see. Photography is what I want to do in my life, and I’d also love…

Minimum wage is a highly debated topic that affects our whole country. Since it’s implementation in 1938, the Fair Labor Standards Act, which is the first act in the United States prescribing nationwide compulsory federal regulation of wages and hours (“Fair Labor Standards Act,” 2017), opened up a world of heated discussion regarding the minimum wage in the United States. Today, many economists still disagree about the effectiveness of the minimum wage. The minimum wage both helps and hinders…

In a single year 83.2% of adults and 97.6% of children have had some kind of contact with medical professionals due to some form of physical ailment (“Ambulatory Care Use…”). This statistic clearly displays that the average American has a sense of trust and devotion towards the medical system and the professionals who work there to help the community. However, are all those in the medical field truly qualified and deserving of this kind of trust? Do they really have the skills to truly take care…

mean, what other job lets you kick down doors, chase the bad guy, and have co-workers that may have an attractive face and abs, including yourself. It takes hard work and time in order to get accepted in the FBI. Like I mentioned before, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) not only chases bad guys, but does much more. It protects the United Stated from terrorist attacks, deals with weapons of mass destruction, public corruption, and counter intelligence. The types of crimes they deal with…

system, but with change comes consequences. Prisons use workarounds in order to reduce costs which end up being entirely unethical. Prisons also have a lack of institutions that help prevent multiple incarcerations, prisons use prisoners for cheap labor, and prisons provide too much comforts for the inmates. All these topics spark discussions on the ethics of the prison system. Understanding these topics will allow for the prison system to have an ethical and fair environment. One…

is time to end “systemic” gender-based pay discrimination, just as the United States has outlawed slavery and child labor. Brennan creates a strong argument for this by using statistics and findings from studies conducted by the American Compensation Association. This is a strong argument because the reader understands how disturbingly dangerous and disgusting slavery and child labor were, and allows the reader to associate the negative effects of pay wage discrimination with other forms of…

documentary, there is evidence that claims 56% of inmates in 2002 grew up in either a single-parent household or with a guardian, such as grandparents, another relative, or a non-relative. According to Doris J. James, a statistician with the Bureau of Justice Statistics, 39% of jail inmates lived with only a mother, 12% of jail inmates had lived in a foster home, and 46% of jail inmates had a family member, such as a mother or father, in jail prior to their incarceration. In addition, according…