`` Garnering The Youth Vote, By Terry Ryan

John Nicholas interviewed Bernie Sanders for the Nation, a journal on politics, about his views on a few issues being addressed by the candidates (12-6). During the civil-rights movement, Sanders was a supporter of Martin Luther King Jr’s vision. A non-white person has the right to freedom, like any other person. To this present day, inequality and discrimination are a real issue. Police brutality against African-Americans is not new in this country. However, his main concern is that people know about inequality toward blacks, but does not know that the unemployment rate for the African-American youth is at fifty percent. (Nicholas 14) A percentage that high on unemployment rate is an economic problem for the country. Racism continues to exist in America. Racial equality is a vital issue to

One of the issues currently crippling the United States is the outstanding income inequality. As the American middle and lower class expand daily in population percentage, the percentage of income headed towards these people is shrinking. In direct contrast, the top 1% is gaining wealth by the minute. According to Wealth Inequality in America, the 160,000 most affluent families possess as much as the 145 million families who lie at the bottom of the economical food chain. With the ever increasing gap between poverty and comfort within the nation, the ability to climb this food chain is more difficult than it has been in decades. Sanders recognizes this pressing predicament and ___________. Sannders has presented a multiple step process that will create jobs and increase wages across the nation, starting with the fundamentals.

In her article, “Higher Youth Voter Turnout Could Change Election Outcome: Pollster,” Joan Bryden argues that political leaders do very little to engage youth in upcoming elections. Currently, political leaders are focus mostly on older voters who do vote, rather than younger voters who are looking for more change. By only focusing on those who do vote, politicians fail to see how younger voters are more keen on change occurring in their society. As a result, younger voters do not understand what politicians stand for during the election. Political leaders could do more to encourage youth voters by “adopting a more helpful, can-do manner,” through face-to-face interaction and mobile technology, discussing topics of concern such as affordable housing and education, finally, communicating a clear picture of what their party stands for.

In chapter one, Wattenberg discusses the declining trends of Americans who regularly read newspapers between the 1960’s and present day. This can be attributed the aging patterns among generations who frequently read newspapers as well as with the use of technology rising. Reading the newspaper is a habit that either is or is not developed by the time one reaches voting age. With this, newspapers have become an older generation’s primary source of information, however, are still the best source for political matters. Younger generations tend to be more computer literate and have grown up with television and media more accessible to them than the previous generation. These trends not only reflect in American culture, but in other countries

U.S. Democratic Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has said, “It is a national disgrace that millions of full-time workers are living in poverty and millions more are forced to work two or three jobs just to pay their bills” (Wolf 1). Sanders has said this frequently and is referring to the drastic amount of Americans who are currently struggling, despite already having a job. The issue of whether or not to raise the minimum wage in America has been a widely discussed topic for years. Minimum wage refers to the smallest amount of money a worker can legally be paid in the U.S. It was first signed into law in 1938 by President Franklin Roosevelt in order to keep workers out of poverty and as it stands, the current federal minimum wage in

The main point according Martin P. Wattenberg in Is Voting For Young People is that young people today do not vote during elections as much compared to other voting groups. Young people today are politically unengaged. “These state patterns of voting participation can be confirmed on the national level by the Census Bureau’s 2010 survey data. Among U.S. citizens under the age of 30 in 2010, only 24 percent reported that they voted.” (Page-188, IVYP) The low attendance of young people voting in Presidential elections indicates that young people do not care enough about politics to participate.

For instance, former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum is an advocate of income inequality, believing that people should be compensated for what they put into the system. Other advocates of income inequality argue that it provides motivation for lower-wage individuals to work harder and for entrepreneurs to take risks, boosting productivity. Another reason why some citizens favor income inequality is the Trickle Down Theory, which states that more money for the upper classes will subsequently cause wealth to trickle down to the masses through an increase in jobs under existing entrepreneurs. Individuals against income inequality argue that it contributes to unemployment and social friction and also that income has a diminishing marginal utility and gives certain people unfair advantages. Income inequality can be said to contribute to unemployment and social friction due to increased competition in the lower classes for jobs. There is also increased social friction between classes; income inequality can be a reason for people to start riots and it also correlates with higher crime levels. An example of increased tension between classes is the Occupy Movement that began in the fall of 2011, which was a nonviolent protest primarily on Wall Street in New York. Occupy members protested the large gap in income equality between the top 1% and the bottom 99% of households in the United States. Others argue that because income has a decreasing marginal utility, it would be better to redistribute the wealth. This is because the extra income would be more useful to the lower classes than it is to the upper classes, since the upper classes already have more than enough money to live comfortably. Inherited wealth can be posed as an argument against income inequality because some individuals, particularly family members of the wealthy, are able to live comfortably under the income of the wealthy individual without having to

“In the years since the protests began, corporations and retailers including Wal-Mart, McDonald's, Ikea, Gap and T.J. Maxx have agreed to raise wages for the bottom rung of workers.”1 Cities such as Los Angeles are starting to take notice and making changes to the minimum wage to the magical number of fifteen. As the movement gets more and more successful, the social inequality of classes are becoming more equal. The discussion of raising the minimum wage is being more popular, candidates for running or rerunning any public office are listening to the voice of the poor and are acting to make their lives better, breaking down walls of social inequality. Candidates such like Bernie Sanders, are supporting to raise the minimum wage and “The governor of New York and the mayor of Pittsburgh issued orders Tuesday that will lead to a $15 minimum wage for all government

At the root of Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders’ highly touted (and shouted) policies, from free college to an increase in the minimum wage, is the issue of inequality in America. Perhaps it’s no surprise that Sanders has seen great success on his message of fixing inequality in the United States, the gap between the wealthy and poor has been growing at an alarming rate. The focus tends to be on income inequality rather than wealth inequality. According to Google Trends, searches for “Income Inequality” significantly outnumber searches for “Wealth Inequality”, and have consistently done so since 2004 (Web Search Interests). Despite this, wealth inequality is a far greater problem than income inequality. Income inequality

Nick Hanauer, a self-proclaimed zillionaire and plutocrat, recently made a very compelling ted talk speech directed toward his fellow plutocrats, in order to convince them that “the pitchforks are coming”. In this piece Hanauer argues that according to historical evidence the current state of the United States’ economic inequality and the direction it is headed for, will eventually being about a revolution (the pitchforks), and a serious change in the boost of the middle class need to occur if not the future he sees is inevitable. This significant change which will also have massive advantages for the rich according to Hanauer will involve increasing the minimum wage of worker to $15 as opposed to the mere $7.25 that it is currently,

I highly recommend watching the liberal progressive documentary currently streaming on Netflix, “Requiem for the American Dream;” detailing how business capitalists are exploiting the average American citizen and eliminating class mobility in the process. If you haven’t been following this argument, it’s essentially the underlying message of the Bernie Sanders’ movement, and is fundamentally true; as there has generally been an unfavorable trend over the last 50 years working against labor (middle class) in its struggle with the wealthy over power. As a matter of fact, did you know our founding fathers initially created the Senate as an appointed political body to be occupied by the wealthy and tasked with balancing the inevitable tendency

Since the 1960’s voting rights have been a problem for minorities. The law for voting has kept minorities from having any say in who is elected into political offices. Therefore, there should not be any restriction and/or new laws that hinder minorities, young voters, newly registered from voting.

Why vote? This is a major question among many young Americans today. America's youth, does not take the time to read articles, observe the news, or pay attention to presidential debates and campaigns due to their busy schedules. This creates two problems. First, young voters have little knowledge of current issues in the election. Also as a result, they are unaware of the importance of voting. Each presidential election stirs up an old controversy of whether to vote or not to vote. There are many young people who think that voting is not important; I believe that it is. By voting you are exercising your right as an American to voice your opinion, and young Americans need to become aware of this.

Democratic socialist Bernie Sanders shares many of the same views as the Workingmen’s Party. Firstly, Bernie’s mission was taking the power from the rich and placing it into the hands of the people where it belongs. Sanders and the Party also both wanted to destroy land monopoly by creating laws, and to destroy the power of the rich by a system of taxation. A Robin Hood Tax System, which wants to “Take from the rich and give to the poor.”

The gap between the rich and the poor in this country is wider that it has been in any time since the 1920s. (Sanders) With an accurate reading of unemployment rate as of July 15 of 2015 the unemployment rate of american citizens in 23%. Now this comes as a big shock to most