Underemployment

Employment issues represent a large factor due to lack of employment opportunities such as unemployment and underemployment. Poverty contributes to homelessness typically as a result of the aforementioned employment issues. Natural disasters such as hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes and volcanic eruptions as well as flooding and large, widespread fires can wipe out…

and nation as a whole, poverty can be conquered through economic growth. However, people find it difficult to obtain a job without receiving proper education, and “[i]ndividuals who lack formal education are at a higher risk for unemployment or underemployment than their educated counterparts” (Source D). There is not enough resources that allow anyone, regardless of their situation, to at least receive a high school diploma, and according to research, education allows people to get better…

The former part of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), the Russia has been an independent nation since 1991 after collapse of communistic regime. Russia is the largest country in the world. Her square cover more than one-eighth of the Earth 's inhabited land area. Russia is also the most populous country with nearly 144 million people in November 2014. Russia has borders contiguous with many Asian and European countries. A large area occupied by Russia gives it certain advantages.…

Agriculture in most developing economies is the core sector providing a livelihood to a significant proportion of population, especially in rural areas. Since this sector faces the largest burnt of underemployment, unemployment and poverty, a growing agriculture and allied sector is expected to contribute vastly to overall growth and poverty alleviation. Increasing the productive capacity of agriculture through higher productivity has been an important goal in developing countries. There has…

theory assists in understanding how factors such as poverty, parenting, and child outcomes may be related (McCurdy, Gorman, & Metallinos-Katsaras, 2010) in order to develop lasting and effective intervention programs. Factors such as low income, underemployment, and low wage jobs cause parents to struggle and create heightened stress. The increasingly high economic stress of struggling to provide for themselves and their children leads to a decrease in parents’ mental health and change in their…

An omnipresent ideal engrossed throughout households in the United States is the American Dream, which states dedication and strenuous work will lead to a successful future. Furthermore, various students are persuaded that a college degree will guarantee an utopia where an individual is engulfed with opportunities. Students go to college for various reasons from personal elevation to personal enrichment. In reality, some students enter into an insolvent from their choices without intention. In…

are all contribution to employment level a person from refugee background is able to engage in (Haerens, 2010). On that account, a refugee is likely to experience lower level of income and lower growth of earning. In addition, unemployment and underemployment impact a refuge person sense of self-worth which creates economic hardship that contributes to increase stress level and sense of powerless such barrier can implicated the of lack of employment opportunities for refugee in Australia. For…

In 1915 alone, an estimated 45 percent of the approximate 800 deaths of Black Houstonians, were presentable ; because illness was one of the largest contributing factors. As high percentages of Blacks suffered from unemployment or underemployment that resigned them to lives of abject poverty; the perpetuation of this cycle forced Blacks to reside in unsanitary and substandard housing. During the initial decades of the twentieth century it was not uncommon for domiciles in the “Negro section”…

Since many immigrants migrate as a result of economic opportunity, it is important to analyze whether or not immigration poses a true alternative to the problems they are attempting to escape, or whether it generates new problems of its own. Unfortunately, literature seems to suggest that, while immigration into the first world removes the individuals from certain third world problems such as instability and health crises, it imposes different problems like segregation and discrimination.…

At the age of seventeen, I weighed two-hundred pounds and was labeled obese with a BMI (body mass index) of thirty-nine. My older brother and dad were also overweight and had developed type two diabetes because of their unhealthy lifestyle consisting of lack of exercise and bad diet. Meanwhile, my doctor told me that if I did not begin changing my diet, I would soon be on the same medication as my family when they diagnose me with either type two diabetes, or a heart-related disease. I was…