Underemployment

The National Institute of Mental Health states Major depression is serve symptoms that interfere with an individual’s ability to work, sleep, study, eat, and enjoy life (NIMH). Symptoms of this diagnoses is being depressed most of the day, pleasure and interest is reduced, significant weight loss, loss of energy, inability to concentrate and or recurrent thoughts of death (American Psychiatric Association, 2013). The prevalence rate of this diagnosis is a 12 month occurrence of 7%, individuals…

Empowering The Homeless: How Housing The Homeless Is Not Effectively Solving The Homelessness Problems? The problem of homelessness has been always a common case in all big cities everywhere. The root comes from a wide range of reasons, from social economy to personal issues, such as drug or alcohol addiction or mental state. The demographic for homelessness also vary from adults to kids due to so many reasons and occurrences in different levels. In the case of homeless children, Judy Daniels,…

Analysis of “Life” Society makes education essential to our daily lives because we now live in a world full of technology. I know most of my fellow classmates will agree that we cannot go a day without using some form of technology. Therefore, society plays a huge role in how people become literate or in other words, how people learn to read and write (“Bedford”). There may be many ways to become literate, but society exemplifies the main reason why I know how to read and write. As a result, I…

Vedder’s essay analyzed and criticized many points of Carnevale’s essay, but Vedder failed to realize that he also had flaws in his own essay. Vedder pronounced in paragraphs seven and eight, “The BLS dataset is robust enough to account for underemployment, albeit perhaps imperfectly.” Carnevale’s feedback of the BLS information is nothing, contrasted with that of Cliff Adelman of the Institute of Higher Education…

Scotland – as all societies in the modern world – is a multi-ethnic society. Scotland’s Census (2011) showed that 96 per cent of the population in Scotland was represented by people whose ethnicity was reported as “White” (“White Scottish”, “White British”, “Irish”, “Polish” and “Other Whites”) and the remaining 4 per cent was represented by individuals from ethnic minority groups (“Asians”, “Africans”, “Caribbean”, “Mixed/multiple ethnicity” and “Other ethnicities”) , that is “groups that are…

difficulty in relation to white people. Even in regards to their high forms of education, they are faced with the difficulty of employment. They may even be overqualified for employment opportunities with the problems of under employment. With their underemployment, they are oftentimes faced with the problem of “unfavorable work environments”. It also mentions the forms of occupations such as self-employed small businesses, white-collar occupations, and lower service jobs. The article discusses…

Right now, Americans are debating whether or not the “American Dream” is dead. Citizens are worried about the economy, the political system and their futures. In the essay the American Dream: Dead, Alive or On-Hold by Brandon King, he explains how the American dream is still alive to this day. King believes that people need to work towards the American dream instead of expecting it to be handed to them. The “American Dream” is currently dead, waiting to be revitalized. The factors of this death…

The issues of increase in graduates’ unemployment rate as well as underemployment of graduates, is not an issue facing the Nigerian economy alone, but it’s a global concern that both developed and developing countries are trying to be reduced or eliminate. According to National Bureau of Statistics “NBS” (2015) statistics of…

Introduction The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) defines food insecurity as “limited or uncertain availability of nutritionally adequate and safe foods or limited or uncertain ability to acquire acceptable foods in socially acceptable ways.”1 Nearly 12% of people living in Virginia are considered food insecure, and these rates are even higher in the southeastern portion of the state. The cities of Norfolk and Portsmouth have food insecurity rates close to 19%.2 Many of these…

In a New York Times poll, only sixty-four percent of the respondents still believed in the American dream. This was the lowest outcome in the last two decades. (Sorkin and Thee-Brenan 2) Have these people forgotten the meaning of the American dream, or have they begun to view it differently? The concept presented is simple: one comes poor to the country, works hard, and eventually becomes well off. However, when one thinks of the word “well-off,” one might interpret it as living a stable…