...necessary resources. Additionally, the foundation is a major player in advocating for values, intolerance and inclusion of all people in development projects without any discrimination. History Allstate foundation was established in 1952 as a self governing organization. The main focus of the foundation was based on charitable mission. The organization is funded and sponsored by a parent company of the Allstate Corporation. Milestones • 2004-Allstates foundation set up $1 million catastrophe recovery fund • 2005- started the safe driving agenda with the aim of reducing teen accidents through Awareness • 2006- award victims of domestic violence job opportunities and education support • 2012-allstates foundation give $50000 towards victims of storm catastrophe in Alabama State Financials According g to the C.E.O of the Allstate Corporation, the organization managed to achieve its financial target of the year 2009. There was a great improvenmentof capital situation. In 2009, the organizations fourth quarter revenues were $8.1 billion. When compared to 2008 fourth quarter, the company...
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...essential area of social work practice and is included in the AASW Practice Standards for Social Workers, (section 4.3), highlighting its importance to social work practice. Social workers are expected to “understand the role of research and evaluation in obtaining and generating new knowledge for practice.” (AASW 2013) Social work research informs professional practice. Through social work research, the profession can: * Assess the needs and resources of people in their environments * Evaluate the effectiveness of social work services in meeting people needs * Demonstrate relative costs and benefits of social work services * Advance professional education in light of changing contexts for practice * Understand the impact of legislation and social policy on the clients and communities we serve Australia’s population is ageing. At the same time, spending on income support payments as a whole (and not just age pensions) is anticipated to increase. Without on-going high rates of economic growth, the nation will struggle to support its ageing population and those who rely on government income support (ABS, 2006). Australian governments have long recognized the need to increase workforce participation—to support economic growth, increase social participation and reduce welfare expenditure. Since 1974, the proportion of working age Australians receiving an income support payment has risen from a modest 5 per cent to around 20 per cent today. Around 2.6 million...
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...“As research into the etiology and consequences of addiction has expanded, so too understands significant differences in use and abuse by, and treatment of chemical dependency for, diverse culture, racial and ethnic groups in the United States” (Capuzzi & Stauffer 2016). Pg. 383. Also, differences in the physical impact of the cultural norms, practices, and beliefs have been shown to affect rates of use (NIDA, 2003; SAMHSA, 2012). Pg. 384. It has been said that “African American, have more alcohol-related problems than whites, e.g., health and criminality.” As Whites are charged with DUI by the State, the judge will court order rehab. However, you can have the same crime of DUI, but different race African American in the turn-out will most likely be different, e.g., court order jail time for the African American...
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...clothing. These are basic necessities that everyone needs to survive. Also with poverty comes poor education. Usually the poorer the education the more likely an individual is to fall into poverty. One of the main issues with poverty is defining it. How do we know who are faced with poverty and homelessness, if poverty is not able to be defined? History of Poverty Many think that poverty will diminish over time (Dinittto, 2011). However, if there is a continued decline of education for women it is safe to believe that poverty and homelessness will continue to be a social policy issue. Poverty affects men women and children. Unfortunately, children are affected the most because they are the most vulnerable. Families are left without homes, jobs or the means to support their families. These same children are left without food or adequate clothing. And this has been the issue for years and years. Poverty as a political issue only came to light in the last 50 years (Dinitto, 2011). More Education Educating more women seems like a reliable alternative to homelessness and poverty. Is it reasonable to say the more education a women has the less likely she is to live in poverty? Education may be the only key to resolving this issue. But, how do we make educating more women a social issue that the government should be responsible for. As we know education is expensive. However a policy where working women could receive education credit for a high school diploma or college courses would...
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...Issues 405 Dr. Hong-Jim Kim June 7, 2009 Abstract This paper will provide you with an overview of the unemployment situation that faces our society today. How unemployment impact the family life, working class, whites, blacks, Hispanic, and other races. That doing such difficult times all areas of the job sector faces some degree of uncertainty, and this is felt by all. Doing these times we witness an increase in the number of workers out of work and the high number of job claims, which has a negative effect on our economy. What we can do to turn around our economy? Through education, health care, and coming together as a society. And what our government role should be in all of this. These factors will be looked at throughout this paper. Unemployment Skyrocketing job losses and rising unemployment remains the focus of not only America but around the world. During a time when there are stores out of work, losing their homes, and wondering how they will get their next meal or where to lay their head for the night. There is a consensus among economists that an affordable housing market along with effortless lending practices created our current unemployment and there seems to be no end in sight. With daily unemployment data released, providing figures across all ethnic groups. The impact is being felt in the African American community greater than any other ethnic groups. Black unemployment rate currently ranging in the neighborhood of 12 percent that is nearly double...
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...When Parents Divorce The Effects on Children June 10, 2013 PSYCH 210 ABSTRACT When a couple makes the difficult decision to file for divorce, it not only impacts them, but it impacts their children. A child’s world is their family. In a child’s eye their mother and father together is a huge part of that. Today, 6.8 out of 1,000 marriages end in divorce (CDC, 2013). Some children deal with behavioral and emotional disorders from divorce. It is always in the interest of the children, for the parents to do absolutely everything they can to get along and stay together. The toll that a divorce can take on a child can be devastating. If the parents cannot be amicable and get along even after they are apart, the child may be put in the middle of the arguments. They feel unwanted, unloved, ignored and may even feel like a pawn in a chess game. The image of a failed marriage may give the child the false impression that marriage cannot last forever. When Parents Divorce When a couple decides to end their marriage with children involved, what impact does this have on their children? It is often thought of that children are resilient and will get past it, but it seems that may not be as true as everyone thinks. A child feels safe, secure and loved when their parents are together. Changing that family dynamic can affect the child’s feelings of safety, security, and the feeling of being loved. Some factors are more obvious than others. The affects can be different from between...
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...the individual classroom teachers. I have developed and written new art lessons for each grade according to the state standards and the coordinators curriculumn structure. When I actually get to teach in the classrooms I get 50 minutes to present art history, aesthetics, criticism, demo new techniques and have students do the project. Any other art they get is at the descression and under the guidance of thier homeroom teacher. This week I introduced the 5th graders to monoprinting using plexiglass plates which I supplied from my personal inventory and washable markers. We viewed and discussed monoprints created by Wayne Thiebaud. I used this to introduce the monoprinting technique and to discuss Pop art. The students had a previous lesson about the work of Andy Warhol and I was thrilled that they were able to make great comparissons between the two artists work. For the art project the students were to create a Pop Art monoprint. We brainstormed about possible images they might depict. Everything was going so well until a couple of the kids told the teacher they didn't know what to draw. The teacher then announces to the entire class that they can draw what ever they want, because this is thier art work. So much for pop art! I got decorative names, simplistic scenery, and what I call wall paper art! When I confronted the teacher later about her taking over in the classroom and how her comments had interrupted the students actual creative learning process, she reminded me...
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...the individual classroom teachers. I have developed and written new art lessons for each grade according to the state standards and the coordinators curriculumn structure. When I actually get to teach in the classrooms I get 50 minutes to present art history, aesthetics, criticism, demo new techniques and have students do the project. Any other art they get is at the descression and under the guidance of thier homeroom teacher. This week I introduced the 5th graders to monoprinting using plexiglass plates which I supplied from my personal inventory and washable markers. We viewed and discussed monoprints created by Wayne Thiebaud. I used this to introduce the monoprinting technique and to discuss Pop art. The students had a previous lesson about the work of Andy Warhol and I was thrilled that they were able to make great comparissons between the two artists work. For the art project the students were to create a Pop Art monoprint. We brainstormed about possible images they might depict. Everything was going so well until a couple of the kids told the teacher they didn't know what to draw. The teacher then announces to the entire class that they can draw what ever they want, because this is thier art work. So much for pop art! I got decorative names, simplistic scenery, and what I call wall paper art! When I confronted the teacher later about her taking over in the classroom and how her comments had interrupted the students actual creative learning process, she reminded me...
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...It is still important to note that one of the factors that lead to alcoholism as a route of escape is economic and this is where poverty comes in. in Samuel’s case, the association between alcoholism and a job loss is evident as ‘he picked up his severance check and headed for the door’ (Alexie 185). For someone who has not been an alcoholic, Samuel’s case is one that takes a sharp twist towards the self-destructive act of taking alcohol as a solution to problems. Instead of taking his check and looking for a better alternative, Samuel resorts to alcohol which as it has been pointed out is a self-destructive path that a number of characters seem to prefer in Sherman’s The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven. Samuel’s acts later on depict his suicidal nature considering his lack of belief on the job loss he has just suffered. This is revealed when Alexie notes that ‘Samuel couldn’t believe he had lost his job…tipped on a rail, fell face down on the tracks’ (192). This is a point of desperation for Samuel that evidently shows the need for a desperate self-destructive move. It is clear that Samuel’s job loss drives him to take alcohol and subsequently putting himself in harm’s...
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...orphan thus reveals his or her culture understands of both the underage child’s essential needs and society’s responsibility for meeting them. Orphans frequently lack sufficient food, shelter, schooling and medical care and are at risk of abuse and economic exploitation (Berry and Guthrie, 2003). Most research work on orphan concentrates on basic need and Non- Orphan is a child who requires also protection and care, there are the children who lives with their parents, relatives, and friends they have the basic needs, shelter, food, clothes, they can go to formal schools, they can buy their needs, they can eat different kinds of food they want and also they have the money to hangout (billy 1997). Orphan-hood is frequently accompanied with multidimensional problems including, school services, inadequate food, sexual abuse and others that can further expose children’s prospects of completing school. Moreover, the death of one or both parents has a profound and lifelong impact on the psychological wellbeing of children. The impacts of parental death on children are complex and affect the...
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...Political Impacts Political stability is usually defined as the state of peace that is normally experienced in a country from the activities from the government and also the government in this situation will make decisions and keeping best interests in mind for people. Government initiatives are when the government can support business through grants and tax reductions. The government have their own initiatives for companies like Asda and these are the health eating and fit for life. These are campaigns that Asda will try to support then try to receive more funding from the government for advertising etc. Also when the government chooses investment finance this then involves selling part of your business shares to an investor. The investor will then take a share of any profits or losses Asda make. The government may change the tax rates up or down in an effort to try an boost the economy. An example of this is VAT which means all non-food will need their labels changing which could potentially increase profitability. `The international monetary fund describes itself as ‘an organisation of 188 countries that works to foster global monetary cooperation. It also works to secure financial stability, facilitate international trade, promote high employment and sustainable economic growth, and reduce poverty around the world. Legal Impacts The legal impacts are that Asda must follow the law. The legal frameworks is where the business chooses the way it operates. This...
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...Mike Harris Research Paper #2 COM101-002 Professor: Bush Walker November 8, 2013 Media Conglomerate Ownership in the U.S. The United States is being greatly affected by conglomerate ownership of media properties in today's industry. A conglomerate is formed when a large company merges with separate and diverse small firms. By definition a media conglomerate is a large company or corporation that has merged with a number of different media outlets such as TV, radio, newspapers and Internet. Big companies have the tendency to expand by diversifying their holdings among different media products, never fully dominating a particular media industry. A decreasing number of organizations gaining control over an increasing amount of mass media, which defines media consolidation, leads to an oligopoly in the marketplace. Large companies create an oligopoly when only a handful of them dominate the industry and face little economic competition from small independent firms.[1] In 1983, a total of fifty corporations dominated most of the media industry. Through a series of mergers and acquisitions, that number shrunk to twenty-nine by 1987. Twenty-three companies had control of the industry by 1990 and in 1997 that number was ten. Presently, media ownership has been concentrated in the hands of only six extremely powerful media conglomerates.[2] The six corporations that control media collectively in the United States today are Comcast, The Walt Disney Company, CBS Corporation...
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...Business Failure Analysis Derrick Canty LDR 531 April 13, 2010 Tim Buchanan For several decades, Switzerland’s former national airline, Swissair, has had a reputation as being an almost perfect embodiment of traditional Swiss virtues like technical innovativeness combined with reliability and solidity at the same time. They were so financially stable that they were known as the “Flying Bank.” Established in 1931, Swissair epitomized international transportation until the late 1990s, when the management decided to follow the aggressive borrowing and acquisition policy known as the Hunter strategy. This strategy was a major expansion program initiated by Swissair aimed to grow its market share through acquisition of small airlines rather than entering into alliances agreements. The buying spree created a major cash flow crisis for parent company SAirGroup (Swissair Group), and was exacerbated by environment caused by the September 11 attacks. Those attacks put a void in the company’s plans and Swissair found itself hamstrung with debt. Unable to make payments to creditors on its large debt, and the refusal of UBS AG (Union Bank of Switzerland) to extend its line of credit a month later forced the entire Swissair fleet to be grounded in October 2001. Management was the blame for how this company failed because of failure to conduct a market research and not taking competition seriously. Swissair figured that they could just “muscle” the little guy and...
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...it becomes viable to start production in markets other than the products home country. When this theory was initially introduced it did hold true for a majority of companies taking on FDI. The current state of the market with global product roll outs, rapid worldwide shipping options and largely automated high volume production facilities lead to production facilities developing simultaneously or a single factory with global production capabilities. These have largely led to the downfall of Vernon’s product life-cycle theory to explain a trend in foreign direct investments. Why do you think the host country tends to resist cross-border acquisitions, rather than greenfield investments? A country may see a cross-border acquisition as little more than exporting the profits of that company has been producing. The acquisition will not necessarily create any new jobs or GDP for that country. It could potentially just be a foreign hand taking all future profits back to its home country. A greenfield investment however is a foreign company investing their money to better that foreign country. It will employ citizens of the country, increase their GDP and generally benefit the country’s economy. While in general a greenfield investment may have the quicker impact to a country’s economy a cross-border acquisition can still hold a lot of benefits for the foreign country as often time when a company makes this type of investment they will be...
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...workforce. The passage “The Fight for Fifteen Movement Is a Costly Job Killer” by David W. Kreutzer, explains that increasing the minimum wage to $15 an hour could have negative economic impacts. Kreutzer said higher wages could lead to higher prices and less hiring, hurting businesses and customers. The passage “Minimum Wage Increase Proposal Does Not Go Far Enough” by C. J. Polychroniou, has the opposite opinion. Polychroniou shares that the minimum wage cost has not changed in over 10 years. Not only has the minimum wage not increased in recent years, but the price of living has skyrocketed. As such, discussions around minimum wage often revolve around its impact on poverty reduction, employment rates, economic growth, and the overall fairness in the distribution of wealth. This complex and multifaceted topic invites a closer examination of how changes in minimum wage policy can ripple through society....
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