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Current Business Research Paper Luvenia Manning University of Phoenix Research and Evaluation I RES/341 Facilitator: John Mc Nicholas Friday, July 24, 2009 Homelessness and its effect on School - age Children In the United States where many people are transient and/or homeless there is a growing sub-population of the homeless and they are families with children. The primary culprit is poverty due to lack of employment and underemployment which correlates with the lack of adequate education. In view of the importance of education as the fundamental means of changing life cycles and its direct relationship to income and employment, this study will undertake to answer the following question: “Does a change in living environment from family unit to a shelter unit have an effect on the academic performance of school-age children who have become homeless'” This study will help to discover if academic achievement diminishes when children become homeless. If the results show that academic achievements have diminished because of the condition of homelessness, the results will contribute to heightening awareness of the areas and type of academic support needed by school-age children who are homeless. This research will be conducted by comparing and examining yearly academic achievement scores in the eight categories measured by the Wide Range Achievement Test. The areas of academic achievement are: word reading, sentence comprehension, spelling, and math computation. I could use a Stratified Sample or Cluster Sampling. A Stratified Sample would allow me to attempt to match a sample population to the population that I am addressing using specific characteristics. House Democrats health bill would tax rich Experts believe the proposal to include surtax on families making more than $350,000 could be bad economic medicine. This is the latest idea Congress is considering to pay for President Obama’s extensive goal to provide healthcare coverage to the nation’s 50 million uninsured. According to a USA Today/Gallup poll, 58% of Americans support increasing income taxes on the wealthy to pay for healthcare however a less popular but broader tax is tied to the healthcare spending which could be more sustainable over time said by some experts. The House legislation proposed families earning $350,000 to $500,000 would pay an additional 1% in income tax. The higher the salary the higher the tax so families earning more than $1 million would pay an additional 5.4% according to a House Ways and Means Committee document. Republican Dave Camp says, “The taxes are onerous during a recession. They’re going to fall on families, small businesses, manufacturers and they’re going to cost us millions of jobs.” The data collection methods used in this research project were the Gallup polls of Americans and the examining of the tax policy for the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities performed by USA Today research. Reference: 1. Fritz, J. (2009). House Dems’ health bill would tax rich. Retrieved from the World Wide Web From http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2009-07-14-healthcare_N.htm 2. Hart-Shegos,E. and Associates, Inc. (1999). Homelessness and its Effects on Children; Retrieved from the World Wide Web From http://www.fhfund.org