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- 91: A Postmodern Look at Poverty and Homelessness
- ... hardship. For such people, recourse to shelters or other makeshift accommodations is simply another way of bridging a temporary gap in resources. Their housing troubles may be with other problems as well. For instance, dismal employment opportunities because of poor schooling and obsolete job skills, domestic violence, poor parenting, or poor household management skills could be a few examples of problems. Those individuals who fall into the second category are homeless ... the group that is most visible and tends to dominate the public's image of homelessness. Alcohol and other drug abuse, severe mental illness, chronic health problems or long-standing family difficulties may compound whatever employment and housing problems they have. Lacking financial resources and having exhausted whatever family support they may have had, they will resort to the street. Their homelessness is more likely to persist therefore continuing the poverty ... substantially altered labor markets and the demand for workers, especially in cities of the Midwest and Northeast. Wage-based incomes have become more polarized; income differentials have widened. Some hosts of developments have jeopardized the employment prospects of those who lack appropriate skills or adequate schooling. These developments include: plant relocations and closures, persistent racial discrimination, changes in industry that have increased demand for highly educated people, the decline in ...
- 92: Affirmative Action
- ... frost@hotmail.com Politics is assuming command of the American economy in the form of pervasive "equal opportunity" enforcement. In today's society, everyone is supposed to be equal and have equal rights, but in employment, there is more discrimination than ever. American citizens need to do away with affirmative action so that America's job opportunities can once again be based on merit, not skin color or ethnicity. Laws have ... form of Neosocialism putting politics (and lawyers) in command of its workplace albeit on the pretext of equality rather than efficiency. This problem is only becoming worse because America has the most far reaching equal employment laws found anywhere in the world. ("Counting Costs") Many companies are afraid of these laws, and the fear of political punishment makes quotas very hard to research. A Kmart executive told a researcher, "We're not letting you anywhere near our program." (Brimelow 77) Companies go beyond what is required just to avoid legal trouble. The manager of corporate employment status at Xerox, a company that uses quotas, states, "We have a process that we call 'balanced work force'. In Xerox, everyone understands that, and it is measurable by its goals and relative numbers. ...
- 93: Careers In Computer Engineering
- Careers In Computer Engineering While financial analysts, government officials, and employment specialists frequently disagree on conditions existing in the American economy today, everyone concurs with the idea that a college graduates possessing a degree in the field of computer engineering is in the enviable position of ... according to the study, was $100,000 a year, with five percent of the number earning over $180,000 a year. Consultants cited the reasons for their choice as the freedom from the responsibilities of employment as well as the opportunity to learn new things (Fernandes 17). Students who obtain a bachelor's degree in computer engineering have almost an unlimited number of opportunities open to them. Companies are offering high salaries, and many are including bonuses for completion of one to two years of employment as well as other personal benefit such as concierge services, vacation planners, and caretakers for pets (Gornstein PG). Students with average grades are being wooed before they graduate from college from well-established computer ...
- 94: Buyer Behaviour
- ... Psychological Mintel’s research on ‘Women and Finance’ (27/10/99) suggest that the past few decades has seen dramatic changes occur in the roles than women play in society. There are more women in employment (51% in 1998 44% in 1985). This is due to more women continuing in further education, leading to a growing number in higher paid jobs, achieving more personal disposal income (PDI) With a 24 hour ... advertising. For example a study was conducted to examine how employed and non-employed wives respond to different elements of automobile advertising messages. Data was gathered by interviewing 727 women via telephone. Results revealed that employment status significantly affects perceptions of advertising message appeals. More so, retired wives respond differently from other home-makers even though they are also non-employed. It also found that employed wives views value for money ... 9, 4 (1983): 393 – 402 Bellante, D., and Foster, A.C. “Working Wives and Expenditures on Services.” Journal of Consumer Research 11 (1984): 700-707 Bartos, R. “The Moving target: The impact of Women’s Employment on Consumer Behaviour.” Journal of Marketing 41, 3 (1977): 31-37. Internet WWW.Mintel.com - Women 2000, ‘Women and Shopping: The Role Of Convenience.’ (11/01/99) WWW.Mintel.com – Women and Finance (27/ ...
- 95: Affirmative Action
- By: will holden Politics is assuming command of the American economy in the form of pervasive "equal opportunity" enforcement. In today's society, everyone is supposed to be equal and have equal rights, but in employment, there is more discrimination than ever. American citizens need to do away with affirmative action so that America's job opportunities can once again be based on merit, not skin color or ethnicity. Laws have ... form of Neosocialism putting politics and lawyers in command of its workplace albeit on the pretext of equality rather than efficiency. This problem is only becoming worse because America has the most far reaching equal employment laws found anywhere in the world. ("Counting Costs”) Many companies are afraid of these laws, and the fear of political punishment makes quotas very hard to research. A Kmart executive told a researcher, "We're not letting you anywhere near our program." (Brimelow 77) Companies go beyond what is required just to avoid legal trouble. The manager of corporate employment status at Xerox, a company that uses quotas, states, "We have a process that we call 'balanced work force'. In Xerox, everyone understands that, and it is measurable by its goals and relative numbers. ...
- 96: Ethics/Child Labor
- ... children illegally, to release them immediatly. And then correct the matter by maybe continuing to give the children their salaries while they attend school, and promise them their job back when they reach the legal employment age. If you wanted to be a good company or influence in the community you should try to reduce and eliminate child labor altogether through other nonmanagerial means. Child labor can be reduced by the ... labor could be through a creative solution being practiced in South America, a program called Tierra de Vido. The Swiss charity Sentinelles operates this program, and what it does is, that it offers children alternative employment. The children no longer have to work in dangerous and unhealthy coal mines, but can work outdoors in gardens, where they grow fruit and vegetables that will help feed other hungry children . They work less ... maybe should serve food supplements. The parents might view this nutrition as valuable and keep their children in school. Another reason that the complete abolition of child labor will not work is that education and employment go hand in hand. Many children work and go to school, and have to, otherwise they could not afford the tuition and other fees. The immediate result of the abolishment of child labor would ...
- 97: Sexual Harassment
- ... it seems that the issue of sexual harassment has become a security blanket for men and women, and filing lawsuits of sexual harassment have created a new money making scheme. In 1996 my place of employment received two allegations of sexual harassment. In the case I testified in court that I never saw any event of sexual harassment that the lady in question described. The jury threw out her sexual allegations ... were the result of an earlier dispute over business. The court found that even if a sexual relationship had taken place, that Michelle acted willingly, and that this relationship had nothing to do with her employment to the bank. This is another example of how the issue of sexual harassment has become grounds for a lawsuit and a money making scheme. Not only are women making money out of sexual harassment ... that in Morgenson's view, sexual harassment is decreasing, while the number of sexual harassment consultants has increased. Jennifer Coplon, a consultant, believes that the number of consultants has increased because sexual harassment is overall employment issues, the biggest concern among cooperations. If women would not use sexual harassment as a cry for help, then maybe cooperations would not have to pay consultants to educate businesses. Prevention is the hardest ...
- 98: The Problem With Affirmative Action
- ... White House, Report to the President) Understanding that affirmative action is a "social change" program, it becomes clear that the involvement of a great variety of people helping others to succeed not only promotes equal employment and a reduction in discrimination, but improves life for all of us. Many employers do not see diversity as an asset. They still may discriminate against people of color and women if there were no ... only have to look back about thirty years ago. Education opprotunites for minorites such as blacks were not there. If a black male was lucky enough to get into and graduate from a college his employment opprotunities were very low. Only thirty years later minorites who were given a chance under affirmative action programs have become succesful and productive members of society. (Source - "Evaluation of Affirmative Action Programs" - The White House ... many good reasons to keep affirmative action and there are many to dismantle it. A problem created by totally doing away with affirmative action is there would be no way to protect minorities. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission would be demolished. There would be little to no accounting for companies or government agencies that discriminated against minorities or women. It is the general conscious that reverse discrimination is not the ...
- 99: ADA
- ... TEXT/ADA_INFO/HANDBOOK/FREG1.TXT.). Since 1990, there has been a sweeping forbiddance of discrimination against qualified disabled individuals in hiring, promotions, termination, job application procedures, compensation, and job training, and other terms of employment. A disabled individual is qualified if he or she can perform the essential functions of the job with or without reasonable accommodation. An employer who refuses to make a reasonable accommodation, and thereby denies an employment opportunity to a qualified but disabled individual, is guilty of unlawful discrimination under the ADA (Wells 70-80). What exactly constitutes a reasonable accommodation is unclear. However, the ADA indicates that the removal or architectural ... verdict on damages, awarding a record $13 million dollars in compensatory and punitive damages to Donald Perkle. This verdict represents the largest monetary relief awarded by a jury in a case brought by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). The jury found that Chuck E. Cheese violated the ADA by discriminating against Mr. Perkle when they fired him due to his disability: mental ...
- 100: How the Women's Movement has Improved
- ... Horn 83) “ Statistics showed that the number of women over 35 years of age in the work force had jumped from 8.5 million in 1947 to almost 13 million in 1956.” (Kaledin 64) Female employment had increased at a rate four times faster than that of men. The proportion of wives at work had doubled from 15 percent in 1940 to 30 percent in 1960. (Kaledin65) Female workers during this time played an important role in the economy of the United States. Although the employment of women increased, the jobs obtained were considered leftovers by many of the men. “In 1957 the Presidential Commission of the Status of Women easily demonstrated that 95 percent of all doctors, lawyers, architects and ... could employers make private judgments about the legitimacy of married women working. This legislation required employers to hire and promote women without reference to their marital of maternal status. It also contributed to the rising employment opportunities for women. (Van Horn 168) “In 1972, Congress passed the Higher Education Act, this act included Title IX, which bans discrimination in education on the basis of sex.” (Bender 246) All these acts ...
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