Essays on Gilroy

A survey was conducted by Community Foundation for Monterey County (2016) to identify the primary causes of homelessness for women, the needs and challenges that homeless women face, local policy considerations, existing services, and other recommendations. The data was collected from 38 public officials and service providers, and 60 homeless women in Monterey Peninsula. A sample of 60 homeless women generously participated in the study. The measurement tools that were used in the study were interviews, surveys, and group conversations. Also, a policy examination was conducted to find the environmental factors and policies that impact the homeless women in ...

Analysis of Strategic Options and Recommended Action

This report will analyze the strategic positioning of Comcast Corporation, an American based multinational company that offers television, cable TV and Internet services to its consumers, and come up with the best way of making the company as competitive and productive as possible. This paper will focus on the company’s internet service provision branch and analyze how well the company can do in the US market as well as on the global scale when compared to its rivals. The macroeconomic and microeconomic aspects of the company’s operation will be taken into consideration during this process of analysis.

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According to Neumark, Salas, and Wascher (1), “debates about the economic effects and the merits of the minimum wage date back at least as far as the establishment of the Department of Labor as a cabinet-level agency in 1913.” The authors describe the neoclassical school argument that “wage levels were determined by workers’ productivity and that minimum wages would reduce employment among low-skilled workers.” In other words, under free market conditions, the wages perceived by any given worker would reflect the productivity of that worker’s labor. The setting up of a minimum wage would upset the workings of ...

Overcrowding or overpopulation in prisons is defined as a situation when prison(s) hosts more prisoners contrary to the certified normal accommodation (CNA) as stipulated in the establishment’s requirements (Garcia & Marco, 2012, p. 37). This can be validated when there is the scarcity of rooms for inmates to sleep. Besides, the inability of facilities to offer adequate meals or food, poor health care services for inmates, insufficient staff who can care for inmates and ensure their safety as well as the lack of designated accommodation facilities necessary for detaining separately various types of prisoners, more so those that ...