Underemployment

like Hernando de Soto and what Davis sees as his mistaken ideas. Mike Davis offers a comprehensive study of the present urban life and shows that slums have become the essential feature of the global crisis of urban overpopulation and underemployment. According to the United Nations, "More than…

In 2005, three influential reports entitled Innovate America, Tapping America’s Potential, and Rising Above the Gathering Storm were released within a five month period to the public. These articles argue that the education system at the time was leading to a decline in the quality of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) related jobs. These jobs are widely believed to be the future of the United States of America, and the driving force of innovation worldwide. Many important…

Introduction Within society, each working member is constantly making an effort to balance personal and professional obligations. It is paramount for adults to have a career for multiple reasons: to achieve economic independence, a sense of self worth and accomplishment, and importantly, to be able to provide for their families. However, due to stressful work environments, long working hours and ever-increasing expectations among many other factors, employees are experiencing a great imbalance…

its Full Economic Potential. Retrieved: http://canada2020.ca/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/2014_Canada2020_PaperSeries_EN_Issue-04_FINAL.pdf Canadian Federation of Students- Ontario, et al. (2014, February 27). Addressing Youth Unemployment and Underemployment: Submission to the Premier’s Council on Youth Opportunities, Government of Ontario. Toronto, Ontario. Retrieved: http://ofl.ca/wp-content/uploads/2014.02.27-SUB-UnderEmployment.pdf Bernard, A. (2013, June). Unemployment Dynamics Among…

In the United States, there are classes. Class is defined as, a status in society based on income, wealth, power and position (Metzger, 2003). In the United States, there are roughly six classes. The top of the class system is considered the upper class makes up about one percent of the population or the elite. People in the upper class generally are those with inherited wealth also called old money. The next step down from the upper class is called new money. This portion of the population…

In her article, Manitoba First Nations children's advocate fasting to raise awareness, retrieved from http://www.ctvnews.ca/canada/manitoba-first-nations-children-s-advocate-fasting-to-raise-awareness-1.2575655, Puxley (2015) sheds light on Manitoba’s “broken child-welfare system” as she interviews Cora Morgan, a First Nations children’s advocate. (para. 1). Morgan explains her plan to “go without food or water, along with five other women” for two days, in protest of the injustices associated…

Is there a Direct Link between Social Exclusion and Poverty? The reasons usually given concerning why people live in poverty usually concern the achievements of an individual. They did not work hard enough, they were lazy, and they were careless with their money. All these reasons lay blame on the individual. These reasons can also lead individuals to lack sympathy for those living in poverty. Despite what a majority of people believe about the circumstances that surround a person living in…

Community development in my opinion is a process of identifying issues the community is facing and building on the assets and strengths the community have with the members of the community to enhance their lives and others. Yaasland community plan will be based on Brown and Hannis’s ten step process of community development which are defining your role, researching the community, entering the community, consciousness raising, need and assets assessment, setting goals, organization building,…

Introduction According to “The guardian”(2015), 45,000 people suicides a year worldwide because of unemployment. Unemployment is a critical issue in a society, and can cause many problems it and to the unemployed. Unemployment could be related to any person by either being unemployed or knows someone who is. Many people know the feeling of an unemployed person, and how stressed and depressed they are. Unemployment does not only affect the unemployed, but also the people related and around them.…

The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is a trade agreement between the states of Canada, Mexico, and the United States. The document was signed in 1992 by the President of the United States George Bush, the President of Mexico, Salinas and the Prime Minister of Canada Mulroney. The United States didn’t sign NAFTA into law until 1993, when Bill Clinton signed the treaty into law. The treaty passed the US House of Representatives by a 234 to 200 and the US Senate by a margin of 60 to 38…