Structural unemployment

The disabled groups can be considered the largest minority group in the world. The disabled people in society are subjected to different kinds of prejudices, discrimination and marginalization. The problem of disabled groups is as old as mankind. Oxford dictionary defines the term “disability” as physical incapacity, either congenital or caused by injury or disease, especially when limiting a person’s ability to work or lack of some asset, quality or attribute that prevents a person from doing…

Throughout Franklin D. Roosevelt’s presidency, he raised the national debt to 236 billion dollars, in addition he transformed the American presidency (Baughman). Franklin Delano Roosevelt was born January 30, 1882 in Hyde Park, New York and was the 32nd president of the United States of America. Franklin D. Roosevelt was mainly elected for four terms, the longest in U.S history to end the Depression, but he failed to do so. He created the New Deal which provided the three R’s, relief, reform,…

HP splitting itself into two firms is a result of bad acquisitions over the years that ultimately led them into further debt and free fall stock prices. The acquisition of Compaq cost the company 25$ billion along with Autonomy for another 11$ billion. Prices paid were costly and ultimately that led to a share drop of fifty percent. While major competitors continue to exponentially grow such as Dell, IBM, Apple, and Cray all HP can fonder is the major debt pile built. The only resolve to…

3.3. Micro-Financing and Poverty Reduction The major objective of microfinance is to help the poor in order to generate income by themselves and to reduce the poverty level of the country. It serves as one of the strategies in reducing poverty. Ethiopia is one of the poorest countries in the world. Plans to reduce poverty are central to the government’s development agenda, and many policies, goals and objectives are focused on targeting the poor. Microfinance is considered by the government…

1. Background to the study Poverty and urbanization are highly gendered, with women constituting the poorest of the poor in most developing countries. A study by Kanji (1993) indicated that women, in general, and female heads of households, in particular, make up the majority of the urban poor. Moreover, literature on gender and development argue that development is often subjected to male bias (Kabeer, 1994; Moser, 1993). Realizing the poor status of women worldwide, women's issues have been…

Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society was considered one of the most sweeping proposals since Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal. Although both of these proposals were intended to make living standards and such better in the United States, they were based on different things. First off, the Great Society was a response to prosperity, while the New Deal was a response to depression. Johnson’s Great Society proposed ways of reducing poverty and bettering America for its future, while FDR’s New Deal was an…

Poor standards of living have plagued communities of color due to the lack of interest by the United States government. Institutionalized racism has led to housing, employment, and educational discrimination, leading to a cycle of poverty. Discriminatory policies have devastating effects for the youth, poor quality of education and no jobs available force young people into gangs and other illegal and dangerous activities in order to survive the harsh conditions of life. As a direct result of…

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Administration”, was an important New Deal reform program. It was considered as a key to resolve economic crises and the rise of unemployment; these factors led to this reform movement. The WPA was successful when it came to producing projects that shaped the country such as construction and art projects; however, the WPA was not that effective to decrease the rate of unemployment that remained high because of pay differences and the recession of 1937. The WPA was launched by President Franklin…

In the mind of Herbert Hoover, the government should not intervene in economic activities. When the Great Depression hit, this ideology was still active. Hoover tried to soothe the souls of the American people by putting up pictures of a man in a tux eating five full course meals a day in order to create a facade to encourage people to live like before. That man indeed was Herbert Hoover. That totally failed, and seeing Hoover’s luxury, the people living in poverty almost turned communist.…