Most students leave college with enormous amounts of debt, graduate working a part time job paying minimum wage, and face other financial crisis. ​... It is true that in today's time, that the majority of jobs require a college education. ... According to 'Education Pays 2010: The Benefits of Higher Education for Individuals and Society', "The 2008 poverty rate for bachelor's degree holders was 4%, compared to a 12% poverty rate for high school graduates" (Baum, Ma, & Pays, 2010). ... In addition, the majorities of these individuals who graduated college and have these d...

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A couple of examples that lead to the rise in homelessness are high cost of living and low wage jobs, often forcing many people to choose between paying their bills and feeding their families. ... Combinations of high cost of living, low wage jobs and high unemployment rates contribute to the rise in homelessness. ... Cost of living across the US is steadily rising but the wages of jobs are not rising to meet the demands. More than thirty million men and women in this country work in jobs that pay poverty wages and provide little healthcare if any at all. Low wage jobs do not offer flexibili...

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The United States government should not impose stiff penalties, on companies for offshoring, to protect American jobs. ... The manufacturing sector, which formerly provided good family wage jobs for many Americans no longer underpins the economy. ... However, offshoring American jobs focuses on the damage done to the American economy due to job loss and sending money abroad. ... Money that is earned offshore can be kept offshore indefinitely, to avoid paying United States taxes. This means that many corporations store their profits offshore for years to avoid paying taxes. ...

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The labor force comprises of all person over the age of 16 who are either working for pay or actively seeking paid employment. ... One can define unemployment as the inability of labor force participants to find jobs. ... The bureau defines the employed as those that have "worked for pay in the previous week or didn't work due to illness, vacation bad weather or a labor strike. ... Because these figures are not accurately represented the state and federal government have to dish out more money towards unemployment compensation than should be and when they do this it reflects on the taxes...

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Once immigrants get used to the system they become consumers of Canadian public services and start pay taxes. ... Studies show that immigrants in Canada impose a burden $6,000 each by consuming more in services than they pay in taxes. ... The result of this is that firms will now pay a lower average wage and will therefore increase their demand for labor since the cost of hiring a worker declines. ... Immigration can increase competition for existing jobs but it can also create new jobs. ... Immigration generate jobs. 2. ...

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Most of us can agree that America has a strong economy, jobs are available so why doesn't the "American Dream" work for everybody? ... Whether people who exit or are terminated from welfare have jobs, whether those jobs enable them to afford housing, whether they have quality child care, whether they are homeless or hungry - these factors do not appear to be important measures to the President or Congress alike. (8) The largest cash assistance program for poor families with children was the Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) until its repeal in August of 1996. ... Liebow goes ...

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Democrats preferred to pay for benefits with additional federal debt, while Republicans wanted to make cuts to other government programs (Wendel). ... The many Americans experiencing the unanticipated struggle to find a job are allowed to progress through the four tiers of unemployment benefits. ... Some of the unemployed can qualify for disability benefits, although this will probably hurt them in the long-run job search (Hoffer). The best bet for 99ers is to keep looking hard for a job. ... The unemployment extension will help out millions of Americans who have found themselves out of a...

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Clearly the welfare reform was based on the overuse of the system, but it did not accurately direct recipients to new jobs. ... William Marshall proposes that the government provide for job placement vouchers to bypass the income maintenance. ... "Changing the current system's incentives to make permanent employment in private sector jobs the paramount and immediate goal for every able-bodied recipient of public assistance" (Marshall, Will, Kilgore, and Hogan). ... The United States government should focus on providing more jobs to those people who are physically and mentally able to wo...

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So the capitalists start cutting back productions, leading the labors to lose their jobs eventually. ... Since the Great Recession began, most of the people in the working class have suffered unemployment, a cut in pay, or a reduction in hours. ... Even they lose their jobs, they receive high amount of money which is enough to provide the 16000 people who were suffering from unemployment. ... The change in corporate profits and number of jobs in the U.S. shows an ironic result, although corporate profits suffered in the early part of the recession, they have been steadily growing for more than...

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By having raw materials, such as oil and coal, a country is able to produce goods at lower average costs, and therefore they will be able to export these goods, which would increase the GDP of a country.In not having raw materials, countries are at a major cost disadvantage, as they have to pay for imports of the materials. ... So therefore, the confidence among a population increases, and strikes become less likely to occur.Another way how economic growth can be desirable is that a growing economy affects unemployment, as more jobs are made which causes unemployment to decrease. ... This can ...

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He had enough money to pay his rent but had very little left over for anything else, he became dependant on his eldest son to find employment, (who was fifteen) he did get a job as did his next oldest child. The family was now able pay the rent and have enough let over to buy little treats for themselves. ... The older worker may be set in their ways and may not be willing to do the job the way the employer wanted them to do it, they may also demand a higher salary because of their years of experience. The younger worker on the other hand may have no or very limited experience in the job, h...

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A portion of the money will be distributed into job training as well. ... Not only does the TANF play a sole welfare role, but government leaders and educators are working to give free tuition to people who sign up for the "career ladder" programs at college, as opposed to forwarding it all to job training. ... This year (2000) $129 million was put into job training former welfare recipients are simply pushed into low-wage work and punished if they choose instead to go to school (Kuttner). ... Some nations have larger shares of citizens working in low paying jobs, higher unemployment rates...

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This dispute has caused nearly 18,000 job losses, and company losses of 1.5 billion. ... Canfor Corp a Canadian lumber company had to pay $107.6 million in taxes based on the imposed duties. ... Canadian did see a change in the increasing numbers of "McJobs" which was low paid service industry jobs and reduction in manufacturing jobs. Where have all the manufacturing jobs gone? ... NAFTA's achievements were the creation of new jobs, around 870,000 export jobs were created (1989-1997) but at the same time 1.15 million jobs were lost to importers. ...

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The work force significantly increased, with the loss of jobs in agriculture, which was the traditional method in which the Spanish earned money, and the growth of the tertiary part, which incorporated women into the workplace. ... Tourism provides jobs for 8.1% of the active population. ... The modern labor market in Spain has been characterized by the peak in the creation of new jobs from 1986-1990. ... About two million new jobs were created during the economic expansion, which amounts to a growth rate of 3% per year. ...

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Policies and programs such as the 'Ten Year Enterprise Tax Plan', the 'Youth Jobs PH internship programme' and the 'Diverted Profit Tax', are just a few examples of how the Government plans to achieve its goals. ... A major objective of fiscal policy is maintain internal balance, by creating jobs, keeping inflation within its target range and redistributing income in a fair manner. The introduction of the Youth Jobs PH internship programme plays a key role in the Governments objective of achieving 'Jobs and Growth'. ... Furthermore, by reducing une...

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Hong Kong's elderly citizens are currently facing numerous major problems which the government needs to address. The government has not placed a great deal of concern and attention on the aging population. The number of elderly continues to increase rapidly in Hong Kong. It was predicted that the el...

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There were no jobs for unemployed Canadians and for those that had jobs, there was a high chance it could be lost. Consequently, workers who had jobs were paid very low wages and worked such long hours that they were living in a state close to slavery. ... Also, many Canadians had decided to leave their homes and travel around the country looking for jobs. ... People were so desperate that they did not have a job, money, enough food and only ripped clothing to wear. ... To help the prairies, Bennett passed laws to provide funds, to help pay for freight rate, to help farmers transport their gr...

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Unemployed people belong to the portion of population that is a labour force of working age who are without jobs and actively seeking work. ... Innovative technology lately has been a danger to employment since advanced computers and robots are replacing many of the worker tasks, which lead to structural unemployment since the workers would not have, as a result, the skills required to obtain a specific job. Another main factor is job outsourcing, which is increasingly adopted by companies. ... Low Long term productivity and low skilled workers are a result of absence of entry-level jobs, sin...

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This act served to stimulate job growth and provide some temporary relief to those most impacted by the recession through spending billions of dollars in tax relief, public works projects, education and job training, etc. ... Jobs have been added at a rate of 200,000 per month but our current unemployment rate still sits around 7.6% and the rates of those underemployed, those who are working below their skill set, and long-term unemployed, those who have been actively looking for a job for 26 weeks, are far to dismal for a recovery (Bernanke 1). ... Many may believe that unemployment in this r...

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Frank is 19, left school at 16 and has never had a full time job. ... Medicare, is the Australian public health care system; providing free treatment in public hospitals and paying fees of doctors up to the level of the government recommended fee. ... There are also many programmes such as Jobs Pathway Programme, New Apprenticeship Access Program and Work for the Dole, which help SED youth gain skills and training, get apprenticeships and find work. ... Fiona had access to multiple benefits aswell as Rentstart and Job Programmes. ... Employment services Minister Toby Abbott said, "For too long...

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People were already losing large sums of money as they were forced to try and pay back expensive mortgage loans that they could not afford, and this loss of wealth meant their was a decrease in other consumer spending. ... If mortgage firms had not been allowing their loans to be so easily attainable then less people would have had the means to take out loans, and only those who could afford to pay them off would have had the access to them. Investment banks made the same destructive decision when allowing investors to buy packages of loans at such a high value without any concern of the mortg...

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Government is failed to give jobs to its people as well as it is also failed to compose environment and strategies for unemployed people. ... The seats of government jobs are sold by members of parliaments. ... The consumption of huge amount of public money on law enforcing agencies could not pay peace and tranquility in Pakistan. ... By backing up industrialization, the local dwellers would again get their jobs and the chance of employment would increase in the country. ... Foremost, the government could stop the brain drain from the country by advertising government jobs. ...

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Farming had much to contribute to the Great Depression in that they were not able to produce on the farms therefore leading to not being able to pay their bills that lastly leads to not being able to sustain the government with their earnings. ... The heat and the dryness caused for many farmers to leave their homes to go and find other places to start over because the farming was being destroyed by human nature and they did not have money for groceries, food or even money to pay their mortgages for that matter. ... It seems that everything was being do to try and negotiate to keep jobs secure...

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But the NIRA and AAA only worked for a short time because prices had subsided and taxpayers ended up paying for it. ... His plan was to provide the unemployed jobs, conserving national forests and parks, restoring Civil War battlefields, building roads, and generally improving many of America's natural resources. ...

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Since Joko Widodo became the president of Indonesia in 2014, the government has some policies to fix export activities and the use of bio fuel (Asril, Bambang, 2015).The percentage target for economic growth is 7% in 2015 which makes the government pay attention to the relationship between fluctuation in foreign currency and national investment. ... Creative industry is a group of various industries that each of them has the relationship in the process of development of ideas or intellectual property become the high economic value which can creates welfare and job opportunities (Collete, 2007,...

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