Office of Economic Opportunity

Mission: NAACP What is the group's mission? The mission of the NAACP is simply to ensure the political, educational, social, and economic equality for all people regardless of the race. The NAACP’s mission is to end racial discrimination in several aspects (NAACP.ORG). What causes do its members support? The members of the NAACP support several causes such as the following: • Criminal Justice: The NAACP understands the imminent risk of criminals and therefore recommends for smarter criminal…

from one locality to another.” It is a universal phenomenon wherein people move from rural to urban areas, from developing to developed countries, or from societies with poor to better economic conditions. It can be temporary or permanent, depending on specific needs and reasons for migrating. It involves social, economic, and cultural implications for the urban areas. Also, migration greatly affects the individuals who move, the individuals who stay behind, and even the places they move to. A…

to the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, are given to every individual, regardless of status, and are interdependent, indivisible and interrelated. Human rights include issues such as gender equality, trafficking, torture, slavery, poverty, housing, and minorities. Due to the diversity of ideologies across countries, human rights can cause conflict as the traditions of one country may contradict another. Human rights are affected by worldwide exchanges of economics, politics,…

Both the reconstruction and the civil rights movement periods are important in the history of the united states because they try to explain how different races, sexes, religious groups, and people from different countries came about to acquire their rights. The reconstruction period specifically focuses on the period after the civil war whereby both the southern and the northern states were looking forward to being united once more. The reconstruction period lasted between 1861 to 1867 (Horton…

Women’s roles throughout the 1800s evolved from segregation in the workplace and familial liabilities to advocating women’s rights in society. The workplace for women in the market revolution gave them economic and employment opportunities, while at home, changing with the Second Great Awakening, women were bound to a cult of domesticity, being a homemaker as well as obeying the husband and taking care of the children. Both of these roles culminated into the woman’s rights of the Seneca Falls…

The American Industrial Revolution (1880-1920) provided some Americans economic wealth and social power. With the rise of big businesses (steel, oil, railroads, etc.) and industrial giants, however, many issues arose as well such as political corruption in the political machines and labor exploitation in the new companies. A broader gap among the wealthy and the poor, due to the system of monopolies and trusts (which gave too much power to only certain companies who could acquire it), was…

commercial space companies through space launch, commercial crew and cargo vehicles is offering U.S. space companies expanded opportunities both nationally and internationally. Additionally, space policies, laws and policies continue to have a more profound impact globally due to the increased number of space users, dependencies on space technology, shifting political alliances and economic…

divisions which caused distinct social classes. The poorest of these classes was the working class, consisting of society’s labor force. Despite working an average of 70-80 hours a week, most members of the working class “lived in constant poverty and economic insecurity” (1). It was common for families or single working men to live in dark apartments and overcrowded tenement houses. The driving factors behind the harsh living conditions were low wages and little-to-no employee benefits. In…

other words, Solar Energy can almost be considered as an absolute clean and safe energy source (Tsoutsos, et al.,2005). Not to mention the socioeconomic benefits, such as diversification and security of energy supply, provision of significant job opportunities, support of the restructure of energy markets, reduction of the dependency on fuel imports and acceleration of the electrification of rural communities in remote/isolated areas (Tsoutsos, et al.,2005). Although the adoption of solar energy…

economist at the U.S Social Security Administration at the time (Iceland, 2015, pg 201). She was able to use the dollar costs of the foods in the two food plans in the process of developing her two sets of thresholds and surprisingly, the Office of Economic Opportunity adapted her model as the definition of poverty in 1965. It eventually became the official statistical definition of poverty in 1969. (Iceland, 2005, pg 201). However, there are some drawbacks when it came to this type of model. I…