Homelessness Research Paper

Growing up in the downtown area of Detroit I didn’t know much about homelessness. My first interaction with the homeless was at my church during Tony Crosby week (a week where we house the homeless). I met a boy named Josh who was the same age as mine and had many similar interests. He explained to me how he and his mom moved here from down south and was their first year in a shelter due to her job loss. “Outsourcing to China Cost U.S. 3.2 Million Jobs Since 2001” (US News). Homelessness is present in the United States and one key factor to eradicate this problem is outsourcing.

Homelessness is witnessed every day, but one must understand the true definition of homelessness. According to the National Health Care for the Homeless Council, “

Each state holds a certain percent of homeless individuals. According to the Huddle Exchange, sixty-five percent of the U.S population is considered homeless. Some states have higher percentage rates others have lower. On The Richest website, Ms. Plunkett states that California has the highest richest population along with the highest homelessness population. There homeless rate is a striking 86.6% (Therichest.com). One main factor of the high homeless rate is the population to house ratio. There are more people than there are homes to live in. This is the case with other states in the U.S. Another factor that Ms. Plunkett mentions is the price of real estate in certain states. In wealthy cities such as Atlanta and Los Angeles the real estate is priced very high for those wealthy people who will guarantee purchase it. The more wealthy individuals in the city the more pricey the real estate. According to “The Richest” website California has the highest homelessness percentage, followed by South Dakota, Idaho, Wyoming, Montana, North Dakota, Mississippi, Massachusetts, Florida, and New York. In a recent conversation with Bryan Smith from the Interact Club of Detroit, he stated that the city of Atlanta, out of all the cities in the U.S, had the highest homeless percentage and the highest wealthiest percentage. Though these cities and states are in the top ranked for homelessness, it is still

Outsourcing is, “practice of having certain job functions done outside a company instead of having an in-house department or employee handle them” (Entrepreneur.com 1).With every choice comes consequences some are benefeicial some are negative. Outsourcing benefits are saving money to expand business. Interviewed by CNN, Mike Scanlin, a small business owner, has saved half a million dollars due to outsourcing. Instead of paying someone $150 an hour in the U.S he pays people on the eastern hemisphere $15 an hour. There are many other business who have performed such task such as Allstate, AT&T, Coca-Cola, Expedia, and many more. Outsourcing also comes with a hard price: job loss. Techsunite.org states that outsourcing is a terrorist threat and that over 500,000 jobs have been outcourced since 2000 and over 250,000 were lost due to outsourcing. Outsourcing has been one of the top ten ways to lose a job since 2000. There has been over thousands of companies that outsource jobs abroad. Also, their are companies considering moving to the outsource method; which means more job lose. When people lose their jobs they lose their homes when intell makes them homeless. Large homeless rates make our american pride questionable. The question becomes are we really united or are we cheap? If all companies stopped outsourcing and kept all jobs here in the U.S the homeless rate would decrease dramastically.