Throughout this essay, I will be discussing what I believe to be the four most important problems facing the United States of America today. I will present these problems in order for most important, to least important. I will talk about how these problems came to be and discuss what my research stated. I will then give my reasoning for selecting each problem and discuss my ideas for correcting these problems.
I believe that America is facing a great deal of problems at this time; however, the top four issues in my opinion are economic instability, unemployment, gun control and limitations on Constitutional rights. I selected my top four based upon how the issue impacts American citizens and their families. I also selected things that I
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I think that there should also be corrections to the Medicaid problem because that is causing many children to go without insurance. When children do not have insurance and they have to go to the doctor, the parents are paying a great deal of money for the treatment for their children and that may cost their family food for a few days. Families all over the country are in different situations but the debt and the high cost of living are not helping the citizens. Due to the high cost of living, many parents have to work more than one job to provide for their families; however, due to the high percentages of unemployment, many parents cannot obtain two or more jobs.
The second most important problem facing America is the high unemployment rates. The unemployment rates are constantly fluctuating, causing uncertainty among the American people. The unemployment has come down a bit over the past few years according to Trading Economics. “Unemployment Rate in the United States decreased to 6.70 percent in December of 2013 from 7 percent in November of 2013”. (Trading Economics, 2014, p.1) I believe that it is good that the unemployment rates are coming down, but they should be a lot lower. I believe a way to correct this problem would be to remove some restrictions by the health care law on employers making them able to hire more
The unemployment rate has dramatically increased over the last several months. This increase has created many complications for the American people. Although the United States economy has created over 7 million jobs, there is still a long way to go until the economy is back on track.
focus on the top three of these issues as well as the importance of resolving the most important
In my personal opinion, the biggest challenge America is facing right now is our politics. Zakaria describes our current state a “do-nothing politics”. America’s politicians are seen as not actually do anything because they can’t come to a compromise on simple agreements. I believe this to be the biggest issue Zakaria talked about because even though right now most of America’s problems are not too severe, by not doing anything about them, they are only going to worsen
What are the largest problems that plague America? Most would argue that issues such as mass hunger, climate change and poverty are the most prominent difficulties that the United States faces. While these things are important, and do have a great impact on the country, there is another large and often forgotten issue that faces America: childhood obesity. This nationwide problem is also directly harmful to the strength and conditioning industry. Physical education classes are failing to involve kids in the necessary amount of daily physical activity. Parents are lacking proactivity to get kids exercising. Food marketing is aggressively drawing children to junk food, and restaurants are failing to provide healthy food options for kids. Children in America today are fatter than they’ve been at any point in the history of humans. Childhood obesity is the largest problem facing the strength and conditioning industry because it causes severe physical, psychological and social problems later on in life; therefore it is imperative that children be educated on nutrition so that they can be knowledgeable viewers of modern day food marketing.
Today American citizens undeniably face some of the nation’s greatest challenges. No matter the issue, there will be consequences as a result. A great issue as voted by most Americans is believed to be the high percentage rate of unemployment. Unemployment is a distressingly bad aspect, and unfortunately it is a daily normality and struggle for most individuals. There are a plethora of reasons why unemployment is intensively high; frictional, structural and voluntary unemployment for example, serve as major purposes to the leading cause of high unemployment. Frictional unemployment occurs from the amount of time spent in finding new employment in the free market. For example, a recent university graduate may not necessarily expect to find a job of their expertise and skills right away therefore the job hunt continues. This also occurs whereas people choose to be unemployed rather than accepting the first job that comes around or are in between jobs because they have become inessential or simply looking for a better, beneficial career. Structural unemployment occurs due to inconsistent labor skills such as occupational immobility where learning a new skill required for a certain occupation is complicated. For example an unemployed mechanic will struggle to find an occupation in the medical industry because of the difference in occupational knowledge. Geographical immobility
The United States of America, if you 're are reading this then you were probably raised in this country. Now, you may or may not be patriotic, but you must realize that our country is a strong, sturdy country. While we have our ups and downs, we still stay strong and prevail. Whether it be surviving and countering terrorism, or fighting against a corrupt version of communism, we are still here alive and well. Today I 'm going to bring you along and show you my opinions of the United States, including what we 've done wrong, what we can improve, and what we 've done right. I believe that this essay has no intention to sway your already preset opinion on these controversial
First, I’ll address what I perceive to be the greatest issue: Economy. Currently, the USA is in around a $19,000,000,000,000 (19 trillion), which is extremely high. We are in a financial predicament that keeps growing larger by the day. Public debt is at 13.6 trillion, while the intragovernmental debt sits at 5.34 trillion. Since 2001, more than 63,000 manufacturing facilities have been shut down in the USA; therefore, it’s not surprising that today less than 65% of all men hold a job. 35% of Americans are enrolled in a federal welfare program. Another awry fact: Medicare is growing at an intense rate, yet faces unfunded liabilities of roughly 39 trillion dollars over the next 75 years. This results in a need of a solution. To start, decriminalizing marijuana and taxing it would be highly
In America, there are many crisis that affects us as citizens of our country. Whether or not these crisis affect us financially, mentally or physically, these are still important events that go on within our country that needs more attention. Immediate actions should be taken when such crisis occur or are ongoing, so other crisis can be dealt with. Especially with the amount of crisis going on in America one has to be controlled for another possible crisis to be taken care of. Three crisis I will be talking about are hunger in america, the opioid crisis, and the Flint Michigan water crisis.
Let's talk about one of the problems which are a major one. That problem is our workforce many people in our country is either impoverished and living off the government or is homeless and can’t do anything. Many of the people have to go through many things just to get through and have the ability to pay rent and not be able to do anything fun without consequence. Now people want to increase the minimum wage to a higher pay wage so they can be able to do many of these things but people who are too right many of the radical Republican say no to that. I'm not sure why they have to deny this great opportunity. it’s is too unthinkable for their reasons one of their reason is that it will crash the economy and other things It's pretty mind-boggling if you think about it. Without this than many of the people in our country won’t be able to succeed in life and just have a horrible life.
All pressing questions, to be sure, and all worthy of consideration. But as a concerned American citizen and future Supreme Emperor of the World, I feel that there is no more compelling crisis currently facing this nation
Throughout history there has always been issues among the government and everyday issues of the people of the United States, but nowadays we have many problems among us that we can’t quite make decisions on like many of past problems. Things that we can’t decide if it’s constitutional or not. So throughout this paper were going to decide what is constitutional and what isn’t about major modern day issues such as: school attendance when under the age of 16 and the laws requiring the every American citizen to have health care. Two major problems that us American’s just can’t quite find a happy medium to.
From researching and following this year’s presidential election, I have a few concerns for the future of our country. As a 9th grader, I will most likely be voting in the next presidential election. If president-elect Donald Trump addresses and fixes these problems, he will most likely have my vote. My top three concerns are abortion, gun control, and immigration.
Fellow Americans, The United States faces many complications. I believe that our country is failing at doing its job and that compared to America years ago, we are worse off than before. Our country as a whole isn't the only thing that is failing, our educational system has been a problem since 2009. Illegal immigrants are also a problem. They contribute to another issue the US faces, this issue is the National Debt.That being said, I do believe that every problem our country faces can be solved or at least prevented.
Many of Americans today do not take the time to realize that our nation is little by little falling apart. Our leaders are corrupt, our environment is being destroyed, and there are thousands of children being born each day. The three major social problems facing the American citizens in the 21st century are births to unmarried woman, being able to trust or government and or leaders, and lastly destroying the environment.
There are a number of critical issues that seem to surface every time we talk about the