Fairfield County is located in South Carolina whose county seat is Winnsboro SC. The county was allegedly named by General Cornwallis, when he stated “How fair these fields”. As recorded by the 2010 census , there are 23,956 people residing in Fairfield County. As of 2010 , there was 8,774 households here. Fairfield County takes up about 686 square miles. Fairfield County has an abundance of schools and jobs available to people. Wealth is the state of being rich, and material prosperity. Fairfield County has jobs available to all people. The median household income in the United states is around $51,939 a year. In Fairfield County , the average median salary is $30,376 per household. Fairfield County contains 4 public elementary schools ,
Clay County was created by the Tennessee General Assembly on June 16, 1870. The county was formed from the secluded northern parts of Jackson County and Overton County. The citizens believed that, with this new county, they would have more opportunities to participate in self-government rather than continuing to be a part of larger county with which they were only connected to by a few trails and no roads. The first session of the county court assembled in Mary Robert’s store in the Butler’s Landing Community where the city of Celina was chosen as the county seat by a narrow margin.1 The name Clay County originates from American statesman, member of the United States Senate, and United States Speaker of the House Henry Clay.2
The book which I have chosen is County by David A. Ansell, M.D., MPH. This book entails the story of Dr. Ansell and his journey of becoming a doctor from the time he starts his residency to the end of his career at one of the nation's most controversial hospitals. The name of this hospital was Cook County Hospital (C.C.H.), this hospital no longer exists and now it is called John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital of Cook County. Dr. Ansell’s journey was an impactful one because he was a first hand witness to the struggles the hospital faced in everyday life and how much change had to be done to better the hospital. C.C.H. was a public hospital and people without health insurance were able to get treatment at this hospital but there was a price one had to pay, People had to wait hours to see a doctor and this possibly could be life threatening to the patient. This is the struggle one has to deal with being uninsured. More than that the hospital was filled with overcrowded rooms, inefficient doctors, and even the politics that ran the hospital were controversial. Throughout the book though Dr. Ansell talks about different health care providers who despite working in a corrupt hospital that is basically broken they were dedicated to fixing C.C.H. and loved working there.
Throughout the history of Richmond Hill, the city has experienced everything from failure to success and tragedies to victories. Today, Richmond Hill is a peaceful suburb located in southern Bryan County. Positioned within a 30-minute radius of Savannah, Richmond Hill offers a wonderful convenience to the nearby metropolitan city. This coastal town is home to more than 10,000 people. Richmond Hill’s community has an excellent reputation with great schools and education opportunities and a low crime rate. The schools of Richmond Hill persistently exceed the standards given by the state and are ranked in the top 5% in SAT scores. Richmond Hill’s eye-catching natural beauty just adds to the exquisiteness of the city.
Situated in the heart of North Carolina, the Town of Chapel Hill is located in Orange County (and part of Durham County), and dubbed the “Southern Part of Heaven” (Town of Chapel Hill, 2014). Serving home to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, along with UNC Health Care and UNC Children’s Hospital, it is the 16th largest municipality in North Carolina, with an assorted population of over 58,424 residents (Chapel Hill Community Overview, 2014).
The abbreviation SOL stands for, Standards of Learning. The Standards of Learning is a test that was devised in the spring of 1998 to provide information on the progress of students toward meeting achievement levels. To me as a citizen of Virginia, and as a student, I think this test is a burden on most students in all grade levels, and should be eliminated. Because first, the number of tests being administered to student each year is outrageous, second, the penalties a student has to face for failing are too harsh, and third, it puts the school in jeopardy of losing its accreditation which is a no win situation.
could do in Kentucky you might not have got away with in New York City
Just as the proprietors had anticipated, many of the early settlers to this new colony were from Barbados. Actually, “. . . Carolina was the only seventeenth-century English colony to be settled principally by colonists from other colonies rather than from England” (Roark). Also these Barbadian immigrants brought their slaves with them to what later became known as South Carolina. While there were indentured servants in the colony, black slaves quickly outnumbered them unlike in the Chesapeake. Soon more than a fourth of the early settlers were slaves and as the colony grew in population, attracting more settlers from Barbados, the black population multiplied (Roark). “By 1700, slaves made up about half the population of Carolina” (Roark). These slaves were needed desperately in the fields to grow the colony’s main export: rice.
South Carolina began as a colony of Barbados. They came there to cultivate crops such as rice and indigo. These settlers brought their slavery practices with them. This idea of growing rice worked well due to the fact that the slaves had experience prior to this experience working with it, and they were just in a good area for growing such a crop. By 1770, black people were nearly eighty percent of the population in South Carolina and the colony of Georgia.
The distribution of wealth by country is an amazing thing to look at (see table 3). The United States comes clearly on top with 41.6% of the wealth across the world, with the next closest being China at 10%. This shows that there is plenty of wealth to go around in the United States; we just don’t equally distribute it. The Gini Coefficient is the best way the world economy can represent the income distribution of a nation’s citizens. The United States ranks well below any other first world country (See table 2) This is an embarrassment to our country. We are a wealthy and successful country, yet we have a bigger gap between the wealthy and poor than any other country that compares to
United States Census Bureau. (2012e). American FactFinder: Erie County: Median household income. Retrieved from http://factfinder2.census.gov/faces/nav/jsf/pages/community_facts.xhtml
Between the end of World War II and the late 1970s, income inequality in the U.S. was reduced; but since 1970s, the situation with wealth distribution has changed. Data from tax returns in 1976 show that the top 1 percent of households received 8.9 percent of all pre-tax income. In 2008, the top 1 percent’s share had more than doubled to 21.0 percent.
The first thing I wanted to find out was what has happened in South Carolina’s history. I learned that Harleston Green was the first golf course in the United States. South Carolina [SC] has more than 350 golf course around the state. The size of SC is 32,021 square miles. South Carolina became a state on May 23, 1788. The tree is very important to the state and it’s called a palmetto. During the American Revolutionary War, the British struck the fort on Sullivan’s Island and that was near Charleston. When they fired cannonballs, they bounced off the palmetto tree and they were used to build the exterior wall. Also on February 17, 1865, General William and his Union soldiers burned and destroyed the city. South Carolina’s new state house wasn’t built until 1903 (South).
Income inequality has affected American citizens ever since the American Dream came into existence. The American Dream is centered around the concept of working hard and earning enough money to support a family, own a home, send children to college, and invest for retirement. Economic gains in income are one of the only possible ways to achieve enough wealth to fulfill the dream. Unfortunately, many people cannot achieve this dream due to low income. Income inequality refers to the uneven distribution of income and wealth between the social classes of American citizens.
Wealth is a diverse topic amongst many people, it’s talked about widely and there is a lot of books, journals, and statistics - that I will use in my paper - but were written based on what other people have found to be true. These sources I have chosen to use talk about the factors, struggles, and lifestyle lived based on being wealthy or not.
Wealth inequality is the uneven distribution of resources in a given state or population, which can also be called the wealth gap. The sum of one’s total assets excluding the liabilities equates the person’s wealth also known as the net worth. Investments, residents, cash, real estates and everything owned by an individual are their assets.In reality, the United States is among the richest countries in the world, though a few people creating a major gap between the richest, the middle class and the poor control most of its wealth. For more than a quarter of a century, only the rich American families have shown an increase to their net worth.Thisis a worrying fact for the less fortunate in the country and calls for assessment (Baranoff, 2015).