Everybody thinks about the different generalizations and social marks of disgrace that accompany socioeconomic status, whether they will decide to let it be known or not. Society has come to accept that a kid who originates from a group of low socioeconomic status will not work out quite as well as a kid who originates from a group of a...
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According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, for every 1000 people, 350 are convicted of crimes. The purpose behind these convictions varies, some including race and socioeconomic status. According to Lawrence D. Bobo and Victor Thompson, 43.3% of blacks convicted are in a federal or state prison, although they only make up 13% of the overall US population. Terrence C....
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Over the last fifty years, the gap in reading-related test scores between the bottom 10% (10th percentile) and the top 10% (90th percentile) has grown by roughly 30 to 40 percent (Reardon, 1). Over that amount of time, the income inequality between the top 10% and bottom 10% has also significantly widened. The difference in scores between the poorest and...
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Socioeconomic status (SES) can be defined as the social and economic standing of an individual or group, relative to others. Components that typically determine SES are occupation, education and income. The Equality Trust (2017) presented figures that showed the top one-fifth of households in the United Kingdom have 40% of national income. In contrast, the bottom fifth have just 8%....
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The global health concerns and cases continue to rise daily, especially to the current pandemic of 2020, Covid-19. Health organizations, such as the World Health Organization (WHO), directs worldwide health concerns within the United Nations’ system, and leads other organization partners in global health responses by ensuring the safety of the air people breath, food they eat, water they drink,...
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Socioeconomic status (SES) is a widely studied concept within the social sciences due to its predictive value with a number of life outcomes. Although much debate has occurred as to exactly what SES represents it is generally quantified as a measure of parental education, family income and occupational status. Examining the relationship between SES and intelligence has historically proven difficult;...
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How to Scale Down Childhood Obesity Declared by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) as a worldwide chronic health threat, linked to children with copious amounts of body fat and a body mass index (BMI) in the 95th percentile, is childhood obesity. Universally accepted and endorsed by the CDC, BMI is a weight mechanism that calculates body fat...
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What can be changed about poverty in America? Everything. One will never truly know poverty unless they have lived in poverty themselves. Poverty is caused by society’s trends changing. Poverty is associated with homelessness, the lack of education, a culture of poverty, epidemic diseases such as AIDS, and illiteracy overpopulation. Congress and I will help break these cycles of poverty...
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Supporting People in Poverty Andrew Carnegie (2019) said, “The best means of benefitting the community is to place within its reach the ladders upon which the aspiring can rise…” On any particular day in America, over 600,000 individuals are homeless (Gaines, 2019). Despite the common vision to aid in economic and social equality, there is skepticism about community driven social...
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In California, there are many citizens and immigrants who are struggling to earn enough income to support themselves and, if applicable, one’s family. The cost of living in California is so high that many families in the Bay Area, in particular, are having a hard time paying off their bills. Even though the minimum wage continues to increase, yet the...
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The future of humanity is generally threatened by the increase and spread of poverty. About 40 million Americans live in poverty and 18.5 million Americans live in extreme poverty, Poverty is a multifaceted social phenomenon: poverty is not only a lack of income, or even a scarcity of jobs, but also a marginalization of a class of society, a denial...
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In 2018, 11.1% of Unites States households faced food insecurity accounting for 14.3 million of the approximately 129 million households in the United States. Ohio has food insecurity above the United States average and ranks 43rd for overall health. Ohio has a 14.5% food insecurity rate with a 13.3% food insecurity rate in my residence, Lorain County. Patients who struggle...
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Poverty is a worldwide epidemic that is changing trends in the country’s economy and affecting the economic prosperity of the community. This social problem is within my two articles and is focused on Americans of all ages. The U.S poverty rate slightly declined last year but despite that, the Census Bureau studied that still, about 38 million people were poor...
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Abstract Peter Edelman’s work Not a Crime to be Poor: The Criminalization of Poverty in America discusses a wide array of social dilemmas individuals within poverty are faced with. The book looks at the criminal justice system as related to poverty: probation, parole, jail, prisons, tickets, fines and fees all related to criminal charges. A host of other topics including...
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An individual's socioeconomic status, whether evaluated by income, level of education, or occupational status, has been linked to various health issues. It has been proven as one of the significant factors that determine one's perception by society and, most notably, their access to opportunities. It is unfortunate that health care, a basic human need that should be available to all,...
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The curse of poverty has plagued America since before the phrase “The American Dream” was coined. Due to poverty in America, some Americans can not even chase that dream that is so passionately sought after. The full range of the amount of people suffering from poverty in America was not even fully realized until the 1960s. The negative effects it...
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Discrimination and poverty in America has become an issue that we have seen over the years. Many factors play a part in the connection between poverty and discrimination, including but not limited to, social, economic, and political discrimination being both linked to the fabric of the U.S welfare. Resulting in the need of income maintenance and other social programs. Knowing...
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Rising childcare cost, shortfall of federal housing assistance, and stagnant or falling incomes among the poor communities are some challenges we face in developing effective programs, services, and responsive social policies. “As a result of these trends, most poor renting families now devote over half of their income to housing costs, and eviction has become commonplace in low-income communities”. 2...
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