A true middle class would be represented as a large block of people in the center of the income growth chart when in fact the bulk of income is located toward the right of the chart. Income growth that is equitable would mean a chart that was relatively even across the boards or at least one that resembles a bell curve.
Income disparity has tremendous implications for social justice. On a very practical level, most Americans do not and cannot wield social or political power. Ordinary employees do not make an impact on corporate decision making or on large-scale spending -- let alone how to steer political lobbying groups. Those who work hard for little pay also have little to offer their children in terms of upward social mobility. A politically disenfranchised group of working poor cannot contribute to business growth. ace and gender are also correlated with income disparity,…...

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References

Bernasek, a. (2006). Income Inequality, and Its Cost. The New York Times. Retrieved 11 Feb 2010 from  http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/25/business/yourmoney/25view.html 

"Growing Income Disparity and the Middle Class Squeeze." (nd) Retrieved 11 Feb 2010 from  http://www.justpeace.org/structures/squeeze.htm

U.S. Census Bueau Analysis of Key Questions
Has the "baby boome effect" impacted maket demand and maket supply in you industy? If so, how? (Explain clealy)

In the etailing industy thee continues to be a vey significant "baby boome effect" on evey aspect of value chain opeations, fom the supplies chosen to the technologies used to automate the logistics and fulfillment systems. The net effect of the baby boome geneation is to completely e-ode the mix of poducts souced, sold and seviced. The affluence of the baby boome geneation ove the adoption of supestoe etail concepts, futhe changing the multichannel selling natue of the etail industy as well.

Given the beadth and depth of inteests this specific demogaphic segment has, thee continues to be entiely new bands being launched to cate to thei tastes as well. What is emakable about this geneation's impact on the etail industy fom a banding standpoint is the…...

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references for a very wide selection and the opportunity to customize product when they have the opportunity to. For many boomers, what they own, especially how customized or unique their homes and cars are, to a large extent defines who they are. That is an observation based on experience. The more customization that is available in a given product or service, the greater the potential it will resonate with a member of this segment. Boomers like to have their purchases reflect who they are, and they are often building their own specific, unique and highly personalized brands by purchases in retail today.

U.S. Census Bureau, 1 out of every 3 kids' lives in a home without a father. Fatherless children are a growing epidemic within many of the more developed countries in the world. In many instances, as the evidence suggests, children without a two parent household suffer tremendously relative to their counterparts in many areas of achievement. In addition, children without a farther tend to lag behind from socio-economic standpoints as well as academically. These problems, tend to compound themselves throughout the child's adolescent and adult life. Problems such as a fatherless childhood have implication for not only the immediate family but for society in general. The costs borne by society include cost associated with increased crime, lack of productivity in regards to work, lower socio-economic status, and higher overall stress levels. As indicated below, what was originally a problem of fatherless children, has now become a lesser known epidemic…...

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References:

1) Bronte-Tinkew, J., Moore, K.A., & Carrano, J. (2006). The father-child relationship, parenting styles, and adolescent risk behaviors in intact families. Journal of Family Issues, 27, 850-881

2) Howard, K.S., Burke Lefever, J.E., Borkowski, J.G., & Whitman, T.L. (2006). Fathers' influence in the lives of children with adolescent mothers. Journal of Family Psychology, 20, 468- 476

3) McLanahan, S. (2009). Fragile families and the reproduction of poverty. Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 621, 111-131

4) U.S. Census Bureau, Children's Living Arrangements and Characteristics: March 2011, Table C8. Washington D.C.: 2011

The 16th Amendment was the first to be passed in the 20th century. It allowed incomes to be taxed as a clear response to the Supreme Court decision in the Pollock v Farmers' Loan and Trust Company (Fonder and Shaffrey 2002). Congress previously passed an income tax law in 1894, which the Supreme Court found to be unconstitutional, not being divided among the states by population. efore the 16th Amendment, the Constitution protected citizens in Article 1, Section 9, which provided that no capitation, or other direct tax chall be laid, unless in proportion to the census or enumeration. This protection was eliminated with the passage and ratification of the 16th Amendment, which gave Congress the power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the States and without regard to census or enumeration. efore the 16th Amendment, taxation was based on consumption and…...

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Neighborhood as Community: Scarsdale, New York
With a per capita income of $113,000, a median household income of $230,750, a median sales price of a single-family home of $1.34 million and one of the leading school districts in the state, the Village of Scarsdale is a relatively exclusive suburb of New York City that has a poverty level that even other affluent communities envy. Using an ecosystems perspective, this paper provides a review of the literature as well as online government resources to describe the demographics, available social networks, income and wealth distribution, an assessment of the educational resources, housing, health and welfare issues, as well as formal and informal control systems. An ecosystems perspective merges general systems theory and ecology to provide insights concerning the interactions between individuals and various aspects of their social environment (Tangenberg, 2009) to determine adaptations of the neighborhood over time, the interface of the…...

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imagery in the movies Chinatown and Blade unner and compare the film-noir type of imagery against the actual statistics available in the latest Census results from Los Angeles that characterize the complexion of Los Angeles in 2010. In all three arenas, we see a Los Angeles area that is multi-ethnic, grime and dirt included. In many ways, while the movie imagery is different, in many ways all three characterizations have more in common than have differences. In all three portraits, the dirty, gritty and repressive city scape has the potential to swallow up the inhabitants in the Los Angeles darkness that is almost as thick as palpable as the ninth Egyptian plague of darkness. The films accurately and effectively discuss the "feel" of the city and the city's neighborhoods. The author will provide examples from the films to illustrate this, as well as the similarities and differences.
Analysis

In all three…...

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U.S. Census Bureau. U.S. Dept of Commerce. Los Angeles city, California QuickLinks. Washington,

D.C.: U.S.G.P.O., 2012. Web. .

The goods deficit with the European Union increased from $6.4 billion in September to $11.9 billion in October; the goods deficit with Japan increased from $6.2 billion in September to $8.0 billion in October; and the goods deficit with China increased from $23.8 billion in September to $25.9 billion in October.
Which product groups had the largest increases in exports?

The September to October export of goods increase resulted from increases in capital goods ($1.3 billion) and other goods ($0.7 billion). The September to October change in exports of services resulted from increases in other private services ($0.2 billion), which includes items such as business, professional, and technical services, insurance services, and financial services; travel ($0.1 billion), and other transportation ($0.1 billion), which includes freight and port services.

Which had the largest increases in imports?

The September to October increased in imports of goods resulted from increases in industrial supplies and materials ($1.9…...

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U.S. International Trade in Goods and Services Highlights (2007, December 12). U.S. Census Bureau Retrieved from Web site:  http://www.census.gov/indicator/www/ustrade.html

hhs-stat.net).
Type I diabetes is usually diagnosed in children and young adults and results from the body's failure to produce insulin. Type 1 account for 5% to 10% of all diagnosed cases of diabetes (Centers for Disease Control, National Diabetes Fact Sheet, www.cdc.gov/diabetes/pubs/pdf/ndfs_2003.pdf). The most common form of diabetes is Type II, which accounts for about 90 to 95% of all diagnosed cases of diabetes (Centers for Disease Control, National Diabetes Fact Sheet, www.cdc.gov/diabetes/pubs/pdf/ndfs_2003.pdf). Pre- diabetes is a condition often present prior to the development of Type II diabetes. In pre-diabetes, blood glucose levels are higher than normal, but not high enough to be considered diabetic.

Pre-diabetes does not have to lead to the development of diabetes if a person diagnosed with this condition: Patients who work to control their weight and increase their physical activity can often prevent or delay the onset of diabetes. There are 41 million Americans who have…...

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American Diabetics Association. Retrieved 22 March 2010 from  https://bewellfinder.com/diabetes-data-statistics/ 

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Diagnosis
The relevance of maintaining healthy communities cannot be overstated. In basic terms, communities should be designed and maintained in a way that promotes the well-being of their inhabitants. In so doing, such communities could end up realizing not only the economic but also the social benefits of a happier, healthier, and more productive society. There is therefore a need to assess and diagnose the key health problems specific to various communities. This way, lasting and innovative solutions can be sought and implemented to rein in the identified health problems.

Community

For this particular assignment, I will concern myself with North Las Vegas which also happens to be one of the largest cities in Nevada. In terms of governance, the city falls under the administration of a mayor who is assisted in this role by four members of the council. When it comes to city life, it is important to note that…...

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American Casino Guide (2013). Las Vegas Casinos. Retrieved from:  http://www.americancasinoguide.com/casinos-by-city/las-vegas-casinos.html 

Castellani, B. (2000). Pathological Gambling: The Making of a Medical Problem. Albany, NY: SUNY Press.

Casino-History (2009). Las Vegas Casino History: The History of Gambling in Sin City. Retrieved from:  http://www.casino-history.com/las-vegas-casino-history/ 

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They can help inform decision-making processes and reveal important details about how the market is functioning. Understanding that e-commerce transactions are significantly related to total retail purchases could allow e-commerce individuals to make different decisions regarding their businesses. For instance, an e-commerce merchant who also has a "real" retail store may wish to correlate his online sales with his in-store sales. If such a merchant were to discover that his correlation was falling well below that of the one found here based on overall U.S. Census data, he may determine that he is not meeting his potential for sales in the e-commerce world. For example, if this individual found that his e-commerce sales were correlated with his in-store sales at a much lower level, such as a correlation of less than .4, this merchant may decide to invest more money into his e-commerce business in an attempt to increase…...

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Groebner, D.F. (2004). Business Statistics: A Decision-Making Approach. New Jersey: Prentice Hall.

U.S. Census Bureau news. (2010, February 16). Retrieved March 16, 2010, from the Census Bureau Web site:  http://www.census.gov/retail/mrts/www/data/pdf/09Q4.pdf

Marketing Strategy
The house brand product in question here will be Archer Farms ice cream. Archer Farms is Target's house brand used for a number of different food products. For the sake of argument, we will assume that Archer Farms ice cream is quite good and Target thinks that there might be some merit to selling it beyond their own stores. The brand does not receive its own marketing at this point -- it has no website, for example, and its Facebook page is a community page not run by the company. There is no disassociation between Archer Farms and Target at this point. This paper will examine how this market strategy might be undertaken.

Involvement

McNamara (2014) notes that involvement in the marketing context refers to "how much time, thought, energy and other resources people devote to the purchase process." Ice cream is a low involvement product based on that understanding. Many…...

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References

Akdeniz, M., Calantone, R. & Voorhees, C. (2013). Signaling quality: An examination of the effects of marketing -- and nonmarketing -- controlled signals on perceptions of automotive brand quality. Journal of Product Innovation Management.

McNamara, S. (2014). Consumer involvement theory. AdCracker. Retrieved February 24, 2014 from  http://www.adcracker.com/involvement/Consumer_Involvement_Theory.htm 

Mehta, A. (2013). Ice cream is not impulse in supermarkets. Buy Stories. Retrieved February 24, 2014 from  http://thebuystories.wordpress.com/2013/06/10/icecream-category-at-supermarkets/ 

US Census Bureau. (2012). 2012 national population projections: Summary tables. U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved February 24, 2014 from  http://www.census.gov/population/projections/data/national/2012/summarytables.html

Outsourcing drops the costs of common goods, many of them commoditized and sold on price in mass merchandisers including Wal-Mart, K-Mart and Costco. The price points of these products enable cash-strapped families who are working to survive this recession a chance to make ends meet. Yet this is just a small percentage of overall outsourcing, as billions of dollars are spent on gaining insights and intelligence from knowledge centers globally for competitive advantage (Sturgeon, Van Biesebroeck, Gereffi, 2008).
The uncomfortable truth too is that the U.S. is also benefiting greatly from other countries coming to this nation to outsource their manufacturing here. In my state, California, the leading exports are civilian aircraft, which are 4.4% of all state exports (U.S. Census Bureau, 2010), electronic integrated circuits, which are 2% and parts & accessories for data processing equipment (1.9%). Asian nations who need aircraft expertise "outsource" their projects to California because…...

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Sturgeon, Van Biesebroeck,, & Gereffi, . (2008). Value chains, networks and clusters: reframing the global automotive industry. Journal of Economic Geography: Global Production Networks: Debates and Challenges, 8(3), 297-321.

U.S. Census Bureau, Foreign Trade. (2010). Total U.S. exports (origin of movement) via California top 25 6-digit hs commodities based on 2009 dollar value (U.S. Census Bureau Analysis). Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office . Retrieved from  http://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/statistics/state/data/ca.html

metropolitan city of Chicago. The area has a total population of 28886 persons. The socio economic class structure is dominated by the middle class or lower middle class families. The overall population is dominated by the females. Life expectancy is higher among females as compared to males.
The racial and ethnic composition of the area is dominated by whites followed by Asians, of which majority comprises of Indian origin. The third highest ethnicity is of blacks. There is little or no existence of Pacific Islanders or Native Americans.

The highest level of education in the area 60631 is of high school graduates. The second highest level of education is college attendance without a diploma while the third highest level of education is of bachelor's degree holders. The level of education from there onwards is on significant decline. Suggested reasons for this may be people opting out of educational institution to seek…...

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Hello Chicago. (2011). Census data for Chicago 60631. Retrieved from  

3 billion and in the exports of other goods of $0.7 billion in October compared to September. However, other goods categories reported decreases, like: foods, feeds and beverages (decrease was $0.5 billion), consumer goods (decrease was $0.4 billion), and industrial supplies and materials (decrease was $0.2 billion). Exports in categories like automotive parts, vehicle, and engine remained constant.
October imports of goods increased in the following categories: industrial supplies and materials with $1.9 billion, consumer goods with $0.4 billion, and automotive parts, vehicle, and engine with $0.5 billion. Imports of capital goods decreased with $0.5 billion, while imports of foods, feeds, and beverages decreased with $0.1 billion compared to the previous month. Other goods did not show any modification regarding imports.

Exports of services also increased October compared to September. The increase was of $0.5 billion. The most significant increases were reported in other private services (including business, professional, and technical services,…...

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Reference List

1. U.S. International Trade in Goods and Services: October (2007). U.S. Census Bureau. U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis. Retrieved December 17, 2007 at  http://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/Press-Release/current_press_release/ftdpress.pdf .

Oligopolies
Part 1) One proposed merger is Omnicare's bid to purchase Pharmerica (FTC, 2012). The FTC has defined the industry as "long-term care pharmacy" and these are the two largest firms in that industry. The FTC has sued to block this proposed takeover. Pharmerica is the only national competitor for Omnicare. Firms in this industry work with institutions to provide pharmacy services. The industry has some fragmentation, but there are only two national players in Omnicare and Pharmerica. The FTC feels that the combined entity would have such strong bargaining power that consumers would not have adequate choice, prices would rise and suppliers would also suffer from this extreme leverage.

From Omnicare's point-of-view, the merger would give it a dominant position in its industry. Pharmerica is resisting the takeover, as this is a hostile takeover. Pharmerica would likely be absorbed into Omnicare to the detriment of its own operations. Suppliers are major…...

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Works Cited:

FTC.gov. (2012). FTC sues to block Omnicare's bid to buy rival pharmacy provider Pharmerica. Federal Trade Commission. Retrieved February 3, 2012 from  http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2012/01/omnicare.shtm 

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Sentementes, G. (2011). I, robot, in the pharmacy. The Baltimore Sun. Retrieved February 3, 2012 from  http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2011-04-18/business/bs-bz-bronfein-pharmacy-20110418_1_institutional-pharmacy-robots-michael-g-bronfein