Median household income

(Schiffman, 2015). In 2015, the “median household income was $76,580” compared to $50,205 in Los Angeles (U.S. Census, 2015). Similarly, only 11.3% of the population of Santa Monica lives in poverty compared to 22.1% of the population of Los Angeles (U.S. Census, 2015). In examining the community’s ethnic backgrounds, the U.S. Census (2015) reports that Santa Monica’s residents…

Felons with a second chance Introduction According to Bloomington housing authority “If a felon has engaged in any violent criminal activity, or in any other criminal activity that would affect other tenants’ health, safety, or right to peaceful enjoyment of the premises will not be accepted for public housing or section 8. Therefore, some paroles that have serious drug felons are left having no governmental assisted housing. As a result, paroles are stuck in finding housing in the privatized…

save for their families. The utilization of credit cards has this problem as people are permitted to borrow money continuously, but do not possess the capacity to pay it back (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 2010). It is imperative that income of the average family increase as the living standard go up in to reduce inequality amongst the classes in…

I come from a low-income single-parent household that falls below the standards of the national poverty line for a family of four. Being able to see how difficult it is to budget under these circumstances truly exposes me the realities of the economic injustices that we speak of in class…

healthy lifestyle. The average median household income in Webb County is $35,659, and the poverty rate is approximately 31.8% of the total population, which is double the state average.1 As a consequence, school-aged children face the nutritional problem of being food insecure. Food insecurity is defined as the inability to find or acquire food in order to obtain the sufficient amount of nutrients to be healthy. Food insecurity is found more commonly in low-income households that are Hispanic…

Nearly one half of all college-qualified, low-and moderate-income high school graduates are unable to afford college. During the first decade of the twenty-first century, 4.4 million high school graduates will not attend a four-year college, and about 2 million will not attend no college at all (Advisory Committee on Student Financial Assistance 2002). I think the most important social problem is the increasing cost of college tuition, not only is this a personal trouble, but a public issue as…

In many parts of the world people are facing the effects of overpopulation and the process called urban sprawl appearing more often (Randolph). This urban sprawl is a direct result of overpopulating a region with an inadequate room for growth (Randolph). It involves stretching the urban boundaries further and further, thus consuming precious farm land and many other types of land use (Randolph). This realization of a population and space crisis is what has driven only a few cities in the United…

hobbies, purchasing power based upon their household income, and how they prefer to do their shopping, whether it is online or in person. These lifestyle, media, and demographic traits that are assessable through the PRIZM system provides the company with the opportunity and advantage to see what type of consumer would be most interested in their product and where their product would be most successful, based upon the demand, needs, and household income of the consumers. For example, the Upward…

VII. Cabotage Laws Cabotage is defined as “trade transit of a vessel along the coast (coastal trading), from one port to another within the territorial limits of the nation ”. In other words, the Jones Act is a series of cabotage laws regulating commerce within the jurisdiction of the United States. Throughout the development of international commerce, cabotage laws have been a source of controversy. The Pro-cabotage movement claims that these laws are necessary in order to “protect domestic…

United States military personnel are devoted to serve and to protect the American people, however their quality of life after combat deployment still remains an area that is not greatly understood. In that case, this phase focuses on the social assessment of veterans’ quality of life in the United States. There are approximately 21,369,602 veterans in the U.S. of which 7.3 percent are females (U.S. Census Bureau, 2016). The age distribution for veterans in the U.S. varies in the sense that…