Tailoring a Parenting Curriculum for the Needs of Pregnant Adolescents in The Bahamas

A Living Wage for The Bahamas: Estimates, Potentials, and Problems

“…Hence, while The Bahamas is often labelled by global governing agencies as a high-income county (World Bank, 2019), this ranking can mask income inequality (Lowe, 2012;Inter-American Development Bank, 2018) and is nonreflective of the income and lifestyle of the so-called average Bahamian. While low income is usually tied to poverty through a lack of education (Krueger & Malečková, 2005;Moss-Knight & Carroll, 2013), recent research on the cycle of poverty in The Bahamas shows that even persons who complete higher education may be unable to earn enough to meet their annual household expenditures (Russell, 2019;Bahamas Department of Statistics, 2016). The additional threat of increasing government taxes and high living costs prompted at least one Bahamian trade union leader to claim that "more than 70% of civil service salaries [already] go to loan deductions" (Wells, 2018, para.…”