Underemployment

On August 1, 1981, a brand new wave of the music industry launched on cable television. The first music video premiering on this channel was “Video Killed the Radio Star” by The Buggles (cite). While at the time, no one could predict the success of MTV, this song seemed to foreshadow the impact of this new music television. Music videos, while having been around for a long time, had never had a format all to themselves on television. MTV provided artists who could harness the full capabilities…

Taken together, Figure 1 and Table 1 support the idea that a primary focus on outcomes of achieving legal permanence for children in the U.S. child welfare system accords with the policy goals. However, as children and youth move from foster care to legal permanency there is a limited understanding of their well-being and excludes a large proportion of children and families who are directly impacted by the child welfare system. Although extant research has shown that the vast majority of…

Is there still place for liberal art education in Post-Secondary Education, or should Colleges and Universities concentrate on workforce training majors? “Change is a double-edged sword. Its relentless pace these days runs us off our feet. Yet when things are unsettled, we can find new ways to move ahead and to create breakthroughs not possible in stagnant societies. If you ask people to brainstorm words to describe change, they come up with a mixture of negative and positive terms. On the…

minimum wage, it has been raised 22 times by 12 different presidents. If it weren’t for the 12 presidents raising the wage, we would still be getting FDR’s beginning pay of 25 cents an hour. With reasonable minimum wages, worker exploitation and underemployment can be avoided. When it comes to minimum…

Introduction Being homeless is a problem that our society is facing, yet fails to address. Within communities, people see homelessness occurring on a frequent basis, but instead of recognizing the problem, they turn their head and act as though it does not exist. Currently, within the United States, an estimated 2.3 to 3.5 million Americans experience homelessness each year (Baggette, O 'Connell, Singer, and Rigotti, 2010, pg.1362). Even with this outstanding number of people placed within…

probabilistic point of view, one can calculate the costs and benefits of different actions present. These assumptions were replaced by Keynes with the notion of uncertainty about the future, which is the cause (according to him) of existence of underemployment of productive resources and persistent imbalances in the economic system. Components of uncertainty about the future are the investment risk factor leading to speculative behavior of savers, the incompatibility of present and future…

The Great Recession is a time of economic decline observed in world markets during the early 2000s. It is a period of declining aggregate output in the economy. The majority of consumers not only in America, but also in most Western nations and many other areas of the world have been impacted by the Recession, 86% of the US and almost 55% of Europe. Business cycles affect all of us in immediate and important ways. For example, when output is rising it is easier to find a good job, but when…

1. What do you think the expression ‘brain drain’ implies? Answer: Brain Drain according to me is the immigration of talented and inspired individuals in the form of doctors, engineers, scientists, architects, educators and other technically qualified and well-educated people from an undeveloped and underdeveloped country to more developed country or a state. It’s a situation in which well-trained professionals leave their place of work or profession in search of a better pay and living…

They state that “for secondary-level students in grades seven through twelve, the social and economic consequences of not reading well can be cumulative and profound; the failure to attain a high school diploma, a barrier to higher education, underemployment or unemployment, and difficulty managing personal and family life” (Peterson, Caverly, Nicholson, O’Neal and Cusnebary…

from the apparent inability by the medical field to properly address the mental illness within the specific demographic. This approach would help those dealing with bipolar disorder handle stressors such as “concentrated poverty, high rates of underemployment and unemployment, racial profiling, mistreatment and violence from law enforcement officials” (Beasley et al.), among others. The point of this approach is to handle and address bipolar disorder from an understanding and sympathetic…