Growing Up From An Economic Recession

“Growing up in a time when all you worry about is if your family will be able to make it through to the next day is definitely a very scary and difficult time to live in” (Vonder Haar). My great-grandpa had this to say to my grandpa about growing up during the great depression. For many people in America from the 1930s to 1940s, life was a constant struggle. The people living in the Midwest, especially St. Louis, knew much too well how difficult it was to live through the great depression. When great-great grandpa first came to St. Louis from Germany he purchased a farm. From that point on, my family struggled to maintain the farm that would still exist today. Many people were affected by the great depression. Throughout the time period before

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Escalating during the great recession and the drug epidemic, the rate of the uninsured and citizens with incomplete MH/SUD coverage escalated to cataclysmic proportions. Relatively, the economics of our nation were impacted by millions of American families affected by MH/SUD disorders that reduced their productivity and earnings potential. However, the fear that MH/SUD parity would further impact struggling businesses and increase the total costs of health care played a crucial role in delaying the passage of individual attempts at parity legislation. Naturally, amendments to a true mental health parity act were inspired by Republican opposition who were against government involvement in regulating health insurance.

As you all know, the Great Depression is currently a dark time for all of us. From what I know, this would be a long-lasting economic recession that we will encounter. Our economy moved into an ordinary stagnation in the summer of 1929. The consumer spending dropped and the stock prices were rising. This made many of the wealthy people lose all their possessions and companies closing up their businesses making a lot of people jobless. A vast amount of people lost their homes and were unable to take care of them or their families. Food banks were made for many of the Americans whose possessions are gone and currently have nothing to support them on. As a woman who went through the ups and downs of the world, I guarantee that America will survive the Great Depression. My name is Lorinda Shanelle; I have been in many good and corrupt times of America. Just as our new president has self-assurance and hopefulness, I too believe that it is possible for America to pass through any of the obstacles that is thrown our way with the help of the New Deal.

The United States is a country that over the years has relied on its economic stability to continue providing acceptable living for its citizens and continue its leadership of the free world. This country went through an economic depression which lasted several years throughout the 1920’s and the 1940’s but successfully recovered from it after World War II. An economic boom in the 1990’s during George Clinton’s Presidency the federal budget was managed to be balanced and helped increase the economic crisis of the United States. The recovery did not last long as the United Stated went through a huge recession during George Bush’s Presidency in what many experts called the “Great Recession” which affected many especially businesses and middle class citizens. Although today many consider the recession to be over the effects of it can still be felt today specially by many middle class families like my own. I come from a small family of three which includes my parents and me. My family comes from minimum wage salaries and have been part of same line of work for many years however, the amount of necessities the family can afford has definitely changed. For example, the amount of groceries you can buy nowadays with a $20 bill is much less than those of the 1990‘s. The price of gas has certainly gone up which has caused many companies to outsource jobs or close down. My dad was laid off his dream job due to budgets cuts while my mom’s working hours have been reduced. As a result my

In 2008, the housing market crashed and America fell into a recession. Many Americans lost their homes. Many investors lost large sums of money, and overall the economic recession hurt America as a whole. Today, we see that the stock market is more regulated than it was in 1929 with the Great Depression and 2008 with the Great Recession, but it is still not regulated as much as it previously was. In 1999, portions of the Banking Act of 1933, more commonly known as the the Glass-Stegall Act, were repealed. The repeal of the Glass-Stegall Act in 1999 sparked the Housing Crisis of 2005 and ultimately led to the Great Recession that America experienced in the 2000’s.

October 1929, the stock market crashed. Millions of investors went into panic. There was an incline in unemployment as companies laid off workers. Half the country’s banks failed. Meanwhile Hoover and other known leaders did nothing to resolve the crisis which caused matters to get worse. People began to lose their homes and everything they had. Before the Great Depression hit us, my life was perfect, now it’s falling apart.

There are many people today that will not be able to experience the american dream because of there race, class, or opportunities. Although those people can still try hard to achieve this american dream. In the sources ¨Obama's 2004 Keynote Address¨, ¨Who burns for the perfection of paper¨ by Martin Espada, and ¨What happens to the american dream in a Recession¨ by Katharine Q. Seelye they all talk about different parts of America and the american dream. I believe you can experience the american dream no matter who you are.

A budgetary stimulus is a necessity to help avoid recessions. Fiscal policy is when a government adjusts its’ spending levels and tax rates in order to impact the nation’s economic status. It is linked to the monetary policy which involves a bank and affects the nation’s money source. When there is an increase in unemployment and the economy is soon reaching a recession, the fiscal policy will help maintain the economy. The fiscal policy will decrease taxes and widely promote government spending. On the other hand, when unemployment is declining and prices are escalating, the policy will reduce government spending and raise the prices on taxes. The Great Recession was a horrific economic crisis that led businesses and buyers to drastically

n any case, this was no million dollar wander with the houses here were tear-downs that nobody had any motivation to repair as people of colour lived there. Periodically, there are windows still in possession of its glass yet most had broken such a long time ago that there was no hint of the shards on the spoiling floor boards. Many of the homes had the rooftops incompletely collapsed or in any event they hang like a frustrating soufflé. The only welcoming you felt was the wail of the breeze, The fate of the town had been gradually beaten by the Great Depression and it had inevitably surrendered to gravity with only a few witnesses or individual’s to grieve its passing.

There were many economic struggles in Ghana that put sever stress on the residents. Because of the lack of money there are a huge number of people that are unemployed and will continue to be for a very long amount of time. Those between the ages of 18 and 35 are most commonly struggling through being jobless but this makes up so much of Ghana’s population. With a scarcity of money, infrastructural struggles begin to occur which is not easy to deal with. They barely have electricity, running water, heat, etc. and this can result in many uncomfortable results.

The Republic of Niger, a poor, landlocked country, located in the heart of Sub-Saharan West Africa. Niger has seen its fair share of change throughout the decades; moving away from the control of the French Parliament in 1960, Niger formally declared its independence. Despite this bold act of independence, Niger would not see its first steps towards democracy until the early 1990’s, when they held their first open election as a free state. However, even with the empowerment of the people in a democratic government, Niger has seen itself nearly torn apart as a result constant coups, that have occurred as recently as 2010. Such instability has led to incredulous amounts of corruption and poverty, within the Niger government. This lack of stability and constant turnover in government, has been a driving factor behind the lack of resources available for education in Niger.

On the 26th of November 2001, the National Bureau of Economic Research, declared that after ten years of economic expansion, the United States was in a recession as of March 2001 (Coplan 9). During the last quarter of 2001, the United States experienced a terrible tragedy; the 9/11 terrorist attack. However, economists believe that even if the terrorist attack had not taken place, the recession would have still been present, but it did in fact delay recovery. The recession of 2001 was by far different than all the other recessions. It was in fact, better than other recessions because the 2001 only lasted a quarter. Real GDP barley changed and the unemployment rates slightly rose (Nordhaus 2). It was found that banks have improved their performance during the recession, they were prepared for the worst this time around. During the 1990s, risk management became an important factor for banking discipline. Using risk managements, it gives the economy a potential to increase the stability. Thereby, banks benefited from an environment that rapidly declined short term interest rates, which enabled them to borrow at a lower cost (Schuermann 2). These risk managements played an important factor during the recession while impacting the United States economy in a positive manner.

When the government gets involved and taxes goods and services, it raises revenue for the government, decreases the quantity of goods produced and consumed and therefore, both consumers and the producer of the good will pay, splitting the costs of the tax and leveling up with society’s.

During 2003-2007, Nigeria attempted to implement an Economic Empowerment Development Strategy (NEEDS). The purpose of NEEDS is to raise the country’s standard of living through a variety of reforms, including macroeconomic stability, deregulation,